How do you tactfully turn down a new job you just accepted?

Accept the second choice job and if the first choice job ask you then tell them you're sorry but you've already accepted something else. I would never accept a job and then turn it down on principle. Imagine if you got offered a job, accepted and then later got told that they have hired someone else and you can't have the job after all!

Just be happy you're in such a great position. Some people struggle to even get interviews let alone job offers.

Thanks for your answer, Scramble. But the choice is between a part-time job with no health benefits and a full-time job with health benefits. So I cannot turn down the full-time in any capacity.

I need benefits considering I've had health problems in the past and got screwed with independent health insurance. I do feel lucky to be in this position. I've been unemployed for 4 months, and have gotten a stream of rejection notices and no interviews for the last 3.

I'd feel bad, too, about turning down a job after they started the hiring process. That's why I need to know how to bow out gracefully if I'm blessed with a second option. But then I think, there is a hundred applicants for one job (especially here in California for a $13/hr part-time job), so they probably have a second choice candidate they can call up in a pinch.

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