Take the Best Offer

Don’t ask me which job to take,
try one and find out.
If it doesn’t suit you
perhaps the other one will.
You’re lucky to have two offers,
some folks scrounge around
half their lives and never find
work to fit their expectations.
I knew a man who spent two years
in search of a position he wasn’t
overrated for. He ended in an
airplane factory making models
of what came off the drawing boards.
He wasn’t too qualified to accept
that after a dozen universities
turned him down. Let me warn you
not to be choosy, when you’re
up against the buzz saw with a wife,
two kids and a mortgage to support.
Don’t be too highly classified
to accept an offer you can live with.
We all went through years when
the grass looked greener on the
other side of the fence.
But disappointment can turn
grass into weed if you count on
only the color.