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> After all, the best time to look for a new job is while you are still employed. That advice comes from people with no other leverage other than the fact that

> After all, the best time to look for a new job is while you are still employed. That advice comes from people with no other leverage other than the fact that they can remain in a (in a case like this one) miserable job indefinitely if needed…doesn’t sound like much in the way of leverage to me. Better to have some other leverage, like real skill or financial independence.

rekabis 2y ago
> That advice comes from people with no other leverage other than the fact that they can remain in a (in a case like this one) miserable job indefinitely if needed…doesn’t sound like much in the way of leverage to me. Better to have some other leverage, like real skill or financial independence. This sounds like someone who hasn’t had to look for a new job in well over a decade. Hint: shit has changed in the employment sector, and dramatically so. Ghost jobs, job ads that demand an entire IT team of skills for a single position, employers stuck with analysis paralysis trying to find perfect employees, and wildly toxic employers for starters. If you don’t start looking while you are still employed, you run a very real risk of exhausting all savings before you do find one. And no, vanishingly few people under the age of 40 are “financially independent”. The retirement plans of most millennials, for example, are wholly dependent on catastrophic societal and economic collapse. And when almost 80% of Americans are living paycheque to paycheque, not many over 50 are such either.