Job hop. I've had one time in my life when I got a raise as good as changing jobs. The way to manage your career is to see each job as a step. Companies are

Job hop. I've had one time in my life when I got a raise as good as changing jobs. The way to manage your career is to see each job as a step. Companies are full of management from junior to executive, who are good at making problems someone else's. Not actually solving them. They love to make their financials improve on the backs of the rank and file, rather than their own skill, then compensate for lower pay will with guilt trip fantasies about loyalties. Then treat people: employees, contractors, customers, vendors, doesn't matter, like toilet paper. Your real boss is you.