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> But one nice thing about 30 years is you have the opportunity to get really good at the job. As someone who is early on in ther career, this is good food for
by mdg 17y ago
> But one nice thing about 30 years is you have the opportunity to get really good at the job.
As someone who is early on in ther career, this is good food for thought. I am still employed at the first company I worked for after graduating from college 2 years ago. I was always told that the way you get a raise is to "job hop" every couple years.
- xenophanes 17y agoI never really understood that. Why are other companies more willing to give you a raise? Is it just irrationality by your boss? The way I see it, you're worth more to your current company. You already know their stuff, and don't have to get up to speed. And you know the stuff you made for them well. And to them you're not an untested new hire who could flop. So in a rational economy, on average and when you're a good fit where you are, you ought to get the best offer from your current company.
- allenp 17y agoWhy would your company want to pay you more than they are right now? What is their incentive? Retention? Other companies are willing to pay you more because they need your expertise and you are offering a higher level of skill/experience than you offered the company you are with now.
- akeefer 17y agoRetention is a very good reason to do so; replacing someone good is always hard (and expensive) in terms of hiring and ramp-up times. If you don't adjust your employees' salaries to reduce the incentive to job-hop in order to get a raise, you're basically asking your best employees to leave.
- mbrubeck 17y agoYour current company's budget doesn't automatically go up just because you've become more skilled and experienced. People and organizations change, and their value to each other does too.
- shiranaihito 17y ago> Why are other companies more willing to give you a raise? Because they don't know what you're currently earning, if you don't tell them.
- shiranaihito 17y agoThis really has worked for me, but maybe things are different in Europe.
- henriklied 17y agoDefinitely different here in Norway, as a persons income is made public and distributed to the press. If you know any Norwegians, you can search them up on http://nrk.no/skattelister2008/ http://nrk.no/skattelister2008/, for instance.
- allenp 17y agoThis is still true - but the stigma of "hopping" can be lessened if you work within the structure of a large company. I think being "really good" at the job could be a disadvantage to a lot of hackers - essentially being "stuck" within a role at a company due to necessity.