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Sounds blissful :-) not knowing enough, I'd generally say to stay for now but also kickoff a thoughtful "project" to discover what you want to do next: research
by asah 4y ago
Sounds blissful :-) not knowing enough, I'd generally say to stay for now but also kickoff a thoughtful "project" to discover what you want to do next: research online, talk with people, take interviews, etc. Who knows, maybe you stay? At least you'll know why. One thing that helped me: creating a spreadsheet, where columns are the concrete choices you have, and rows are reasons to make them. The big win is helping clarify why you chose a direction, and which choices are holistically better than others. The sheet can run for months or years and that's fine.
Think about what you want to optimize. 5-10 years from now, what do you want your life-experience to have been? Are you having fun? Are you learning/growing? Are you building a network? Is it sustainable i.e. if the company reorg'd tomorrow and your whole team laid off, could you get another job?
They say that happiness is most strongly correlated with having a good relationship with your direct manager, and that's been my experience.
For me, there was little correlation with pay - all four quadrants have examples. But money is funny, and has strong correlations to culture: good to understand your understand your relationship with money, both short term and long term. Watch out for sucker deals, both in income, overhead/taxes and lifestyle costs: it's easy to end up with far less money than you think based on the paycheck, especially if there's complex stock or benefits. Also, you're only on this planet once so optimize your time as well: a good paying job that's crazy hours can be a sucker bet if you're not learning/growing enough. A job can pay crap but be intense learning and payoff in the next job.
Watch out for grass-is-greener: I see lots of jobs that sound awesome... from the outside. Also lots of jobs that sound awesome for summer, but not years. Switching is a lot of overhead.
Happy to help if you want, DM me. I learn from hearing other peoples' stories.
HN note: I'm not mentioning extreme options since it sounds like you're blessed with a comfortable position in the upper middle class. Some people have real freedom to radically change their income and/or expenses, which then presents different challenges.
- hirvi74 4y agoThank you for the reply, I read the whole thing a few times, and I would like to continue this. How do I DM you? Is email the most effective way?