Money or Growth — 100+X
What’s the driving factor in your professional life? What makes you excited to do more and give more?
Is it money or learning or sticking with better manager/mentor?
I have asked these questions while switching jobs. Luckily, there was never an incident where I switched because of more money.
Lack of technical growth and insecure/control freak managers resulted in my career to switch companies.
TRUTH for those who don’t drive decision because of MONEY.
Now, let’s say you make 100 and as you have worked very hard in last six months to learn new technologies etc. so you feel that your value should be 100+x . Now, your mind pushing you to grab that x so you start looking for new job , find one and then disclose to your boss that you are “planning” to leave and hoping that there will be anti-offer to match your package.
let’s say that you get counter-offer and you decide to accept “In my case, I never accepted counter-offer because ____ “. Now, you are 100+x and there is pleasure or temporary version of excitement/happiness.
There is a very high probability that after 6 or 12 months, there will be another voice in your head to do that same to get more money and now you get into a cycle.Cycle of trying to make more money by switching jobs.
Look at this survey “Fundamentally, job switchers are most typically people who saw their job as a dead end, so they left it for one that offered a chance to grow.”
The point is to evaluate your decisions before you switch because X will be never be satisfied.
