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basisbit 🦈🇪🇺🇺🇦 🔜 KnSt@nixCraft Not true for many cases. If you stay in one field and one tooling and one language and one framework for a few years, you'll eventually stop searching for solutions online because at that point they usually are not helpful any more, or you just find your own questions from a few years before on Stackoverflow or issues at GitHub and still no one answered.
Ordinary Wonder@OrdinaryWonder @nixCraft Just recently I had a support case where we decided to pay external consultants to fix an issue, I explained the problem with a sample code and everything, and a week later, they came back with an almost usable solution... and a github pull request as source... which was written by myself approximately 3 years ago.
Thomas H Jones II@OrdinaryWonder @basisbit @nixCraft
Once you reach a certain point in your career, those 20% jumps get really rare ...but a 5% annual bump at your current job eclipses a 20% jump from one of your earlier jobs.
@ferricoxide @basisbit @nixCraft it makes sense to me that those opportunities shrink over time. However every complaint I’ve worked at has made the average raise about 0.5% less than inflation. Which of a big part of the reason I end up with 20% on the job change. We shall see about my new company. They claim to be different.
@OrdinaryWonder @ferricoxide @nixCraft I definitely suggest collecting some offers from different companies every 2 or 3 years, and then asking your current employer if they want to approximately match it or rather loose you... Also, ask for an interim report a few months before asking for that raise.
@basisbit @OrdinaryWonder @nixCraft
I continue interviewing, if for no other reasons than to stay in practice and to see what it is other organizations are shopping for (so I can better guide my efforts to keep myself current and in demand).
Down side is:
• it exposes that there's a lot of organizations out there that only need a subset of that experience and only want to pay for that subset, even though they'd like to get access to the greater set
• Most of the places willing to offer more don't want to pay significantly more (and make the jump-risk worthwhile) or the likely stress levels are frighteningly obviously no less than the current position (meaning they're probably worse)
@OrdinaryWonder @basisbit @nixCraft
I've been in consulting most of my career. That's meant I've seen how other companies work on anywhere from a weekly change-basis to tens of months. Mostly, what I've observed is every organization is broken, just in different ways. Consulting means that I can escape a given flavor of organizational brokenness without having the hassle of actually changing my non-customer employment terms.