<human>: Throwaway account here. At the moment, I work at a small-medium sized company as IT support. My job consists of the usual IT work (systems maintenance, helping users with computers, etc). I also work with the database (mostly just writing simple queries) to get data out to people. It's not exactly the most fulfilling job, but it's an easy job and I do get a lot of downtime (for redditing and the like of course). This is my first job out of college and I've been here for about half a year.

Recently, I've applied to a friend of a friend's start-up company (whose product is about to hit the market). I'm not exactly sure what the job entails (I haven't had the interview yet), but I know it will involve customer support and some programming. While I'm a bit wary about the customer support aspect, my friend tells me it would be a good start to my programming career, which is something I would like to do. It will probably pay around 60k (I make about 30k now), but money isn't really an issue for me at the moment.

Here's where my predicament lies. I've always heard it's a bad idea to leave a job when you're less than a year in. How true is this sentiment for a somewhat-fresh college grad? Also, at my current job, I do like working with my employees and I do learn a lot about the business side of things as I work closely with the CFO (who also teaches me office politics). The start-up is only about 5 or 6 people, so there will probably be significantly more intense work than I have now, which I'm not sure if I'd enjoy. However, I do want to get my foot in programming as that is the career path I want to take at the moment. What would you do in my position reddit?

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<bot>: Worked at medium-sized company for 6 months. Applied for a job at a start-up. What should I do if I get offered the job?