I've been in the running for two great roles over the last few weeks after a very long and mentally draining job search. Job #1 is great overall, but the pay is quite low and I'd have to move cities. Job #2 is fantastic, great pay, and less than 30 minutes from me with a hybrid option.
a few days ago, I got an offer for job #1, and after letting the people from job #2 know about this, I was told that though I'm far-and-away their preferred candidate for the role, they wouldn't be able to make an offer until the end of next week.
The deadline to accept the offer for the first job is in just a few days, so I'm really not sure what to do other than to accept it, and then wait and see what happens with the second job.
I know people say that companies don't owe us anything, but the people at job #1 were very nice, and I'd honestly feel pretty bad about backing out of right after accepting... So I guess I'm just curious how bad form it would be to do so.
If it matters, my first day at job #1 wouldn't be for a few more weeks, so I doubt that I will have actually started working by the time I'd get an offer from job #2.