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If you like the new job then you have nothing to worry about. Forget the “traitor” thing entirely. It’s just business. There has been a huge uptick of “I hate

If you like the new job then you have nothing to worry about. Forget the “traitor” thing entirely. It’s just business. There has been a huge uptick of “I hate my new job what should I do?” posts in an advice/mentoring community I’m part of. The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out and got higher paying jobs at companies that were desperately in need of engineers where they tend to have higher wages, shorter interviews to get people in the door. When the new job demands higher performance commensurate with the higher compensation and the company want everyone performing at a high level, it comes as a shock to the system to people who were accustomed to lax companies with lax delivery schedules. Of course there are people for whom the opposite has happened or who are doing the same work for better pay now. Those people are happy! But I think the “great resignation” narrative being repeated over and over again created a lot of FOMO that also churned people out of otherwise comfortable jobs at good companies, with mixed results.

chii 5y ago
Nothing ventured nothing gained. But of course, venturing is not risk free. The, I you're comfortable where you are, the gains needs to be hi.
burntoutfire 5y ago
> The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out and got higher paying jobs at companies that were desperately in need of engineers where they tend to have higher wages, shorter interviews to get people in the door. When the new job demands higher performance commensurate with the higher compensation and the company want everyone performing at a high level, it comes as a shock to the system to people who were accustomed to lax companies with lax delivery schedules. That's me! The new company lured me in with a lot of money, but they were a dysfunctional mess (nobody even knew what the architecture is...). I quit after two months.

chii 5y ago

Nothing ventured nothing gained. But of course, venturing is not risk free. The, I you're comfortable where you are, the gains needs to be hi.

burntoutfire 5y ago

> The common theme in the posts is people who had quite comfortable positions at their previous employer but maybe didn’t realize it at the time. They went out and got higher paying jobs at companies that were desperately in need of engineers where they tend to have higher wages, shorter interviews to get people in the door. When the new job demands higher performance commensurate with the higher compensation and the company want everyone performing at a high level, it comes as a shock to the system to people who were accustomed to lax companies with lax delivery schedules. That's me! The new company lured me in with a lot of money, but they were a dysfunctional mess (nobody even knew what the architecture is...). I quit after two months.