[esclerofilo]

Wanting someone who will stay for the long haul makes sense, but it leaves me as an unemployed engineer with two options:

- Stay unemployed until I find a job that seems interesting enough to work there for years. Apply, get rejected because companies don't like hiring unemployed people.

- Get a job that I don't like, then be constantly on the lookout for an opportunity to leave. Get rejected because I haven't been on my job for long enough.

What should I do?

[layer8]

If you need the money, get the job that you don’t like, but then spend your time looking for the job that you’ll find interesting anyway. Life is too short to not earn your living with something you find interesting.

[sillysaurusx]

Leave. If you have an opportunity to, then by definition it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been at your current job.