Would you be willing to relocate for a job?

I could only relocate to a place where I knew someone. I couldn't just up and go somewhere and start new and know nobody, that'd be too hard.

I was offered a job by a doctor friend of mine about 4 months before I got laid off. He's the medical director at a clinic in a city that is about 1 1/2 hours away from me, and I would have had to sell my house and move. I was seriously considering doing it, because he would be awesome to work for, it was a great educational opportunity, and the pay was fantastic. What made me refuse was that my parents are both here, and I'm the only child in town. They are 75 and 81 and very healthy, but they still depend on me for little things, and I just feel that I want to be close-by. After I got laid off I was offered a position doing the same type of work at a different clinic in that city, plus I had offers from NY City and Boston. Although I wanted to stay in the same specialty field, I just wasn't willing to relocate. My family is much more important to me .

Yes that is true but sometimes you need to move for your career if it is for the good of the family. I am a military wife and I hate the fact that it is very possible that we will have to move shortly and I will be leaving my area where I have lived most of my life and have a great grandmother, both sets of grand parents, countless aunts and uncles and cousins. But for my husband's job it is my be required to move and we have not much of a choice of where we go. For him military is his life and the only career he wants and so for the good of our small part of our family I will move. However we will have a very high phone bill where ever we go.

I could never just lift up and go somewhere else. I couldnt live without my family and they are very dear to me. My sister did that years before she was even married and now she regrets it. We have lost years between us. Its not worth it. Always follow your heart.

It would depend on where the job is situated. There are many places I would never re-locate. I have looked at jobs in other areas in the past but none were really suitable especially as it would have meant uprooting the children and moving away from family and friends to areas where we knew nobody. In this day of electronic communication and secure web sites and secure broadband more and more people are relocating their jobs to inside their homes. that would suit me, (in fact I do sometimes work from home (toatlly unpaid))!! But makeing it more regular as something I could do from home would be enjoyable.

I have had to relocate many times. I did not have that close of a family so making it home to visit once or twice a year was about right. By expanding your job search to the entire US you obviously have a much greater chance of landing a high paying job but you do have to always keep the local cost of living in mind.

I would if it meant that it would help my career or pay better or what have you. I left my family and all my friends when I left my home country of Romania to come here and it didn't bother me. Everyone is different though.

When I was single I would have taken any job that would allow me to relocate. Now with family I would think twice. Get all the information and present it to them. Being homeschooler we are not bound by school situations. Hubby would consider any move that would improve our lives. I would think hard about it since we have a place here totally paid for. Hard to leave that in this day and age.

Hi Elusive,right now my husband is looking for another job ans he is willing to relocate any where in the US. He wants to change to a better paying and a better profile job. Since it's only my husband and I, we can think of moving. I'm not sure if it would have been possible if I was either working here or studying. My plans are on hold now till he settles down. One has to give way sometimes. If you have a family its obviously not possible to relocate.

I think if you are single it's fairly easy .. you go where the quality job is and the best pay .. but it's not so easy to uproot a whole family and move .. Having said that .. of course it's exactly what men have been doing for years .. man gets job .. job in new area .. expects family to move with him ... no questions asked !!

I think that it would have to be something like my idea of a 'dream job' before I would consider relocating. I really love where I live. I would move almost anywhere for the one I loved, that's for sure. But not simply for a job. It would have to be one of the best job offers I ever received. I am really a homebody and don't like the idea of moving all that much, so I would rather get a job locally if at all possible.

I don't think so. I love the area where I live. My family is all nearby, and being close to them is important to me. Plus, I still dream of making a living as a writer one day, and that can be done anywhere. Giving up living somewhere I like and that is near my loved ones for a job would feel like an admission that I'm probably going to be "working" in the traditional sense forever rather than making a living as a freelancer. My former boss left our office a few years ago to take a job halfway across the country. When a position similar to mine, but higher paying, opened up in the department he was now running, he emailed me and told me to consider applying. I gave it a lot of thought, but didn't do it. It just didn't feel worth it to me.

It depends on where I would have to relocate to. My man and I don't have a lot of ties to where we are living now, so if the job was right and the location was right, I'd do it! I'm actually thinking of relocating to Portland, OR for a job soon. I just really want to move to the west coast...

See its important to evaluate the oppurtunities that life throws at you,cause who knows a good job can change ur and ur family's life forever.See sometimes a job offer that allows you to move with ur family should be seriously considered if you feel the change will benefit u and ur family then you can go for it...

if the package is good enough then the family can also be considered to move. but in any case family is more important if it is not possible to move.

Gladly. If i get the opportunity to relocate for a high paying job I would do so without hesitation. I can always bring my family with me. I don't want to wonder 20 years down the road about what I could have achieved if I did take the job.

I do not think I would want to relocate. I do not have a close relationship with my Family but I am hoping that in time could change. My Friends are here with me and I have lived in my State all my life. I think it would not be good for me to relocate. I mean I would need the job for money reasons, but I still could not do it. The change would be too hard on me.

that's actually what i'm facing right now.. any moment from now.. we'll be receving the date of when we will be relocated to our new office.. its would be really hard coz i'll be away from home.. and even friends.. but.. if it will uplift my state of living.. i would rather go and be with the relocation.. still have younger siblings.. and they are who i'm thinking of.. besides.. its for them..

A number of factors would have to be taken into consideration. Since I am single, it wouldn't have any impact on the way I bring up my family, but the main things for me to consider are 1) does/will this job take me where I want to go in life professionally speaking 2) will I be happy re-locating where the work is? If it is an area I know I could be happy living in, then it wouldn't be worth it for me most likely - unless I was on my last wing and prayer, of course, and that's a big "if."

Probably not if I had a family. If I was single and had nothing to stick around for I'd probably take thte opportunity if it paid well and the job was in a place that was ok to live. I probably wouldn't go to any cold states like Minnesota or South Dakota thats too cold for me.