<human>: My husband is the Assistant Manager on a blue-collar government contracting job. His boss quit and they offered the Manager job to my husband. We are debating whether or not he should accept it. He does not want to stay with this company and expects to do something else (another job, school, start his own business) by summer. Is a short time with higher pay and a better title going to have a significant impact on future job prospects/negotiations?

Pay would bump up from about $38K (hourly wages + overtime) with shitty benefits to about $50K (salary, no overtime). The Manager position would be very stressful and require way more than 40 hours per week. The last guy was so miserable in this job that he took a job with a 30% paycut just to get out of there. The one before did the same thing. It's a terrible, high-stress job and my husband gets an upset stomach just thinking about it. The kicker is that my husband will have to handle the responsibilities of the Manager job until they fill the position, even if he doesn't accept the job.

I think he should take the terrible job so he has the Manager title and a nice ending salary to put on all future job applications, even if he is only in that position for about 4 months. He doesn't think that job title and salary history matter much. He wants to stay in his current position until summer.

If it matters, I make $56K and cover all the insurance and retirement stuff for our family. We are on track to be completely debt-free (mortgage paid off, student loans forgiven, etc.) in ten years or less but we have no savings. Our marriage is solid and we approach our financial decisions as a team. This is really the only thing we have differed on in about 15 years.

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: Is a completely miserable job with good pay worth it in the long run if he only stays in the position for a few months?