hey all,
i'm not wanting to brag, or sound condescending, i'm just in a moral pickle and with it being late in the UK a fair few people I'd normally seek advice from are asleep.
kind of having a moral dillema, i'm coming to the end of a further degree in canada and following an interview on tuesday i've been offered a technical/research job in the oil sands industry into reclamation research. the pay is unquestionably good, as are the benefits with the job it would also allow me to settle in canada permanently which is something I have wanted to do (other than propose to the fiance - accomplished)
the job will be working in a research field looking to 'fix' the damage done by the oil sands, and return the tailings ponds as close in function to the natural system that existed previously. so...it has the right intentions but i am having a total headf*ck moral arguement with myself if i should even be doing it to begin with.
it is my first 'real' job as a graduate and beyond any payscale i'd ever imagine to achieve in the UK, i've been to fort mcmurray in past years and remember feeling pretty shocked at the sheer scale of the mining there.
have you ever taken on a job that leaves you with a sense of guilt?
i am really struggling with accepting or declining the offer, I am loathed to accept and then later quit as I can't imagine it will look great when i go for future interviews. or should i just suck it up and accept that oil has to come from somewhere and it's better destroying the canadian boreal and poisoning the athabasca river than it is oil coming from the middle east with childrens blood painted all over it.
thankyou ever wise STW, meekly, mrgibbons 
