How to handle accepting a job offer while waiting for the other one to start?

So I received an offer back in earlier 2020 before I graduated for Company A in my dream area, accepted, everything went well. Because of COVID however, I haven't been able to move and start with the company due to initially their uncertainty about if the job would still be there, and now at this point they are remote, but not comfortable sending me out to the area because of COVID concerns to do in person training. Starting remote is not an option either.

They're hopeful I would be able to fly out, train sometime early next year, and then fly back and work remotely until I get moving settled and they're back in the office, but there's no strict timeline on that. With cold and flu season starting up, my guess is I won't be able to fly out until most likely late spring, early summer of next year at best.

Unfortunately this puts me in the situation of being unemployed until then. I've been on unemployment but have recently turned 26 so it's in my best interests to probably stop waiting and find a job. Luckily a recruiter reached out to me and I've finished interviewing for a mostly remote job with some onsite work in my area, and will most likely receive an offer from Company B. I want to accept it, but am having trouble getting past the idea that if I accept it and start working, there is a good chance I will spend less than 6 months working there before I have to awkwardly quit just after starting.

I have not been able to get any other interviews in my dream area which would allow me to just take a job and not worry about having to quit anything. The person I've stayed in contact with in my dream area has already said they understand if I need to look for something else and would completely get it, but I don't want to tell them I have something in fear of them pulling the offer. If I had another job in that area, I would just start that job, tell the Company A I needed to accept another offer and still move eventually to the area. But the job I've now interviewed for is not located in an area I want to be in; I fully want to still work for Company A and move to the area, but I need to make real money, especially if something does happen to the offer from them (it's unlikely at this point, they've been pretty consistent about keeping the offer available barring any major economic collapse, but still it's obviously a possibility.)

I would just feel pretty bad if I started with Company B at the beginning of 2021 and then in February Company A says "alright lets fly you out and get you trained." I realize business is business but it doesn't make me feel any better about doing something like that. I keep justifying it to myself by saying that companies drop people all the time and that's just how it is, but I can't help but feel there might be a better way.

On top of it, it's keeping secrets: can't updated LinkedIn, cant post about it really, kind of useless on a resume if I list less than six months working somewhere. I wish I could just wait it out, but I really can't.

This is more of just a rant I guess but if anyone has any advice or reassurance it would be great. I realize it could get me blacklisted at Company B if it does play out that way, but the companies are across the country and not in the same direct type of engineering industry, I really wouldn't care about something like that if it happened. It just feels like everything the opposite of professionalism, which I really like to try and employ with myself. I feel dirty.

(sidenote, anyone hiring in the Bay Area need an EE? 😁)

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How to handle accepting a job offer while waiting for the other one to start? How to handle accepting a job offer while waiting for the other one to start? Reviewed by Louhi on décembre 03, 2020 Rating: 5

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