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[Nikia]

I am unhappy with my current job where I have worked for two and a half years and have been for quite some time. Now that my best friend is leaving the company soon and our hours are getting cut (I'm paid hourly), I feel more determined to leave. I have had a couple of phone interviews for better job but I feel that I am getting nowhere in this pursuit at least in the current economy. Last night, I found a job that I am intersted in at a temp service that I had applied through before. It is a temp to hire position. If it is that the company that I think it is at, I would be definitely intersted in the position. The problem is that it a position of less responsibility. It might be considered a backwards move although in many ways it is lateral. I am not extremely concerned about this career wise because it would be with a much bigger company with possible advancement oppurtunities (At my current company, the one position higher than mine is filled by a guy with over 20 years of industry experience.) and an obstacle in getting better positions at other companies has been that I have not worked with a large company (Mine has less than 60 people). The job will also probably pay more. How do I address the question about why I want to leave my current position and take that position if I am asked that by the temp service and especially by my perspective new company. I am worried that if I say that I want career advancement that they will think that I would be unhappy in the position which requires less responsibility than my current one. I know that it is considered inappropriate to bash one's current company, which is the real reason that I want to leave. Can I even say that my hours are being cut and I need full time hours? Can I tell the temp agency that my current job is not what I thought it would be going into it and that is why I am coming back to them (I had been in the interview process for a different job through them when I accepted my current job.)? Can I tell either the temp agency or perspective employer that I really want to work in a structured environment with other people for a while rather than have to alone be dictated by someone who keeps on changing his mind on what needs to be done and how it should be done? Is there an appropriate way to say this?