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I asked myself a very related set of questions which helped me realize it was time to switch jobs: 1. fast-forward and picture myself at my own retirement, ass
by chias 3y ago
I asked myself a very related set of questions which helped me realize it was time to switch jobs:
1. fast-forward and picture myself at my own retirement, assuming reasonable progression based on my current trajectory.
2. from there, reminisce about when I was at the peak of my career, really at the top of my game, the most accomplished I ever was.
3. am I satisfied with that peak?
If not, then there is a problem with my current trajectory and it needs to change.
- brailsafe 3y agoThough not necessarily a bad way to make your decision more concrete, I feel like it would be delusional to think that you'll care about not just your career, but what your younger self thought about anything. In order to shoot higher, you have to decide what higher means now, and think that later you'll agree with that in retrospect, and I think if you're truly growing, you won't. I most likely won't be able to retire, but when I'm around that age, something will have to have seriously gone wrong if I care about my career status a veritable lifetime prior. There's already so much more to derive from life outside of work than I could possibly derive from work, and while it's good to think about increasing the value I get from work in the future, there's nothing I could think of doing that would bring me so much more value that I'd make a significant sacrifice on the other side for it.