The question of whether or not that will continue from one month to the next is completely out of your hands as an employee. Regardless of how well do you do y

The question of whether or not that will continue from one month to the next is completely out of your hands as an employee. Regardless of how well do you do your job, if any of the billion layers above you bungle their budget, or their marketing, or there's merging or reshuffling between departments, or somebody just plain doesn't like you, your "steady income" can vanish in an instant. The company's health is not tied to your performance, and if the company's health wanes enough, you start getting squeezed as a bottom-runger before anybody at the top.