Possible Clues:

• Currently employed -- success impossible here?
• New suit I own in a state -- dilemma?
• 3, for example, finally getting a job?
• Either way, it's bad, currently appropriately placed next to charged group?
• Currently employed, but inevitably a bad choice here
• Impossible position now as intuition goes to pieces
• Presently having a job between Scylla and Charybdis
• Currently having job from which success is impossible
• Pyrrhic victory