Of course it's ethical. Companies don't even blink about firing you (or umm, "laying you off") just after you bought a house, found out you need to put your re

Of course it's ethical. Companies don't even blink about firing you (or umm, "laying you off") just after you bought a house, found out you need to put your remaining parent in an assisted living facility, or about your child's expensive learning disability, etc, ad nauseam. Even after they just lured you to quit your previously stable, if perhaps not entirely creatively rewarding position to come join their pipe dream / lemmings march. And guess what, most of the time you don't even get an explanation beyond "it's just not a fit" or "sorry man, turns out we had less money than we thought." So by all means -- yeah, it's ok to spend a few minutes thinking about their needs versus yours -- but at the end of the day, you have to do what's right for you, and for the people who depend on you (or who may depend on you in the future). Because it's virtually guaranteed that your employer won't grant you anywhere near the same level of thought and consideration in making the decisions they will inevitably make about your fate.