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The focus in the article on mid-career people was interesting. I wonder how many of those people are (finally?) realizing that hoping for advancement in the sa
by sbarre 5y ago
The focus in the article on mid-career people was interesting.
I wonder how many of those people are (finally?) realizing that hoping for advancement in the same company is the slow path for most people, and that taking your skills and experience somewhere else in a hot market is - all other things being equal - often a better option for your own career growth.
All things are not equal of course, so I'm sure it's more complex than that..
But anecdotally I know several mid-career people who have changed jobs in the last year in part because they had never bothered to look at what they could actually get with their skills and experience, and were shocked to find out they were seriously undervalued and underpaid at the job they had been at for many years.
- ryandrake 5y agoI guess it depends on how you define "mid-career". If you assume people generally work from, say, 20 years old to 70 years old, mid-career would be about 45. As a 45-year old in tech, I can emphatically say, the days of switching jobs for a 10+% comp bump are long, long in my past. I remember my first job change was from $45K to $60k, an incredible +33%, but each subsequent hop has been significantly less, until my most recent job change which was around +0.5%. Most of us will reach a plateau, and I'd argue by mid-career (again, assuming in your 40s), you're finished hopping for advancement salary-wise. EDIT because I can't reply: Got it--busted for not reading the article! Considering 30 year olds "mid career" makes me feel pretty old!