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Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Redocbew wrote:Business people are weird.
Even though I've been building software for a living for 10+ years now, I realized the other day I'm just not interested in moving up the tree, running a team, and yadda yadda. I just want to build stuff.
derFunkenstein wrote:Why does it have to be about "advancing the career"? Why can't it be about doing something you enjoy? I think that's the point you're making.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
derFunkenstein wrote:Why does it have to be about "advancing the career"? Why can't it be about doing something you enjoy? I think that's the point you're making.
Mr Bill wrote:
ludi wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:Why does it have to be about "advancing the career"? Why can't it be about doing something you enjoy? I think that's the point you're making.
Unfortunately, in many fields your income tends to plateau unless you're constantly moving up the ladder or into new areas, or else have some obscure subject matter expertise sufficient to hold the company hostage in a salary negotiation.
Even if you're not a money chaser, a "comfortable income" can start to thin down as inflation, new family members, or old age begin to chissel it away.
superjawes wrote:ludi wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:Why does it have to be about "advancing the career"? Why can't it be about doing something you enjoy? I think that's the point you're making.
Unfortunately, in many fields your income tends to plateau unless you're constantly moving up the ladder or into new areas, or else have some obscure subject matter expertise sufficient to hold the company hostage in a salary negotiation.
Even if you're not a money chaser, a "comfortable income" can start to thin down as inflation, new family members, or old age begin to chissel it away.
Indeed. Every professional career seems to be "pay for performance", which means (or at least implies) that you must move up the ladder in order to keep up with (or at least outpace) inflation.
And speaking as a filthy millennial, the common knowledge we're sharing is to change companies every few years because it's the best way to earn more money, and my experience supports that (I had one promotion worth ~6% increase, but changing companies was a ~15% increase). It's not what I want to do, but if it makes fiscal sense...
superjawes wrote:And speaking as a filthy millennial, the common knowledge we're sharing is to change companies every few years because it's the best way to earn more money, and my experience supports that (I had one promotion worth ~6% increase, but changing companies was a ~15% increase). It's not what I want to do, but if it makes fiscal sense...
Captain Ned wrote:superjawes wrote:And speaking as a filthy millennial, the common knowledge we're sharing is to change companies every few years because it's the best way to earn more money, and my experience supports that (I had one promotion worth ~6% increase, but changing companies was a ~15% increase). It's not what I want to do, but if it makes fiscal sense...
It's not just Millennials. It's been the way to double-digit pay increases since I joined the workforce in 1986 or so, especially in the financial industry (in which I've been since 1986) where you can bring a book of business with you to your new employer to cop that new title and salary.
That said, that path requires extroverted sales skills and absolutely no deficits in self-confidence. Probably explains why I washed out of that world to end up on the backwater beach known as the public sector. At 21 years in I've come to accept that I truly do work for the Island of Misfit Toys (have fun with that one).
Do I wish I had done better? That's bloody obvious. Did I ever have, or have the potential to acquire, the interpersonal skills needed to reach the pinnacle? No. It was somewhere around year 15 when I finally told what little ego I had then: "face it, you're a lifer". Haven't cared a whit since then.
superjawes wrote:And speaking as a filthy millennial, the common knowledge we're sharing is to change companies every few years because it's the best way to earn more money, and my experience supports that (I had one promotion worth ~6% increase, but changing companies was a ~15% increase). It's not what I want to do, but if it makes fiscal sense...
derFunkenstein wrote:I've recently had feelings like this is what I (will soon) need to do, but it's going to be very hard to walk away from five weeks of vacation time.
derFunkenstein wrote:Loyalty to the company was my dad's generation's thing (and the ones before it). He worked at the same place for 41 years. But companies show little loyalty to employees.
just brew it! wrote:I had never heard of Whirlyball before but it looks like a lot of fun. Unfortunately it seems that the only place in Canada that does Whirlyball is down in Toronto, but we have family there so maybe next time we go visit we can give it a go.a group outing today, to a Whirlyball place.
just brew it! wrote:
Edit: Also had a woman who got on after my stop tell me that I was in "her" seat. After we arrived at the train station and got off the bus, one of the other passengers said to me "she's done that to me too". People are weird.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
just brew it! wrote:Edit: Also had a woman who got on after my stop tell me that I was in "her" seat. After we arrived at the train station and got off the bus, one of the other passengers said to me "she's done that to me too". People are weird.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
Heiwashin wrote:This can happen for many reasons, the grand majority of which are mechanical failures on the trailer tires or brakes, or in unlucky cases of too much downhill brake heat.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.