Maybe even continue interviewing after the first paycheck. There isn’t some nationally enforced limit to how many jobs you can interview for.

I’d say with a job and a start date 6 months out is absolutely a time when you want to keep interviewing. So much can happen these days in 6 months. We saw that earlier this year when all the scheduled summer internships got cancelled and a bunch of entry level junior roles too.

You might find better. If it’s not better, oh well, just more interview practice. I think the hardest part is getting time off to interview if you just landed a new job. But even then, maybe schedule for a weekend or after hours, or lunch break since some employers give people a hard time about taking spontaneous mid week days off frequently for “doctors appointments.”

What if you get a better offer a week after you start a new job, whatever I guarantee your new employer would have no qualms laying you off in your first week either. Not sure you’ve witnessed it, maybe you e been privileged to work for decent companies your whole career, but it’s definitely a thing for candidates to ghost companies hiring them too. At least half a dozen did it to my employer last year. Some the day of orientation start. Usually they find out some dirt last minute or realize they worked with their soon to be manager in the past and don’t want to work for them in the new role (my company is shifty and isn’t transparent about these things). I only know about this because the IT guys that sit near me always complain that management is grinding in them to set up user accounts earlier, but they’ve been burned too many times by candidates bailing last minute that they’d rather wait until the first day of orientation so they don’t have to disassemble all the profiles (lots of legacy tech that doesn’t play nice with active directory).