Comment by quickthrower2
2 years ago
Shows you how varied career trajectories can be. Most people need a job for money and in a shitty market anyones first job can be like this, even if they have potential to be great, this can set people back. Really I advise anyone to default look for another job as soon as they get their first one. (Whether you take that job depends, but good to see what else there is once income has been secured)
Not to really disagree but one can also get into a mode where there is perpetually greener grass on the other side of the fence.
However, as I say don't really disagree. If you're pretty sure you "settled" because of lousy market conditions, at least be ready to start looking if things stabilize or start to turn back up.
Job searching is tedious at best and miserable at worst.
However, casually browsing through job openings while you already have a satisfactory job is a lot less stressful, and easy to recommend.
You also get to negotiate from a position of relative strength as your BATNA is your current job. At most it’s the opportunity cost of interviews (and maybe risk of your current job knowing your looking if that’s an issue).
Literally more green since new jobs outpaced raises. That’ll be true in the future too.
> in a shitty market anyones first job can be like this, even if they have potential to be great
That's why you need to look around, question things
I've been guilty of being interested in some needlessly complicated things, but not up to this point, and I could smell the BS from afar
Also staying in one place/one camp means career death (or grave disease ;) ) sooner or later