No one is going to look out for you like you.<\/p>\n
This is a lesson I learned too late in life. I stayed at jobs through ultimately misplaced loyalty and promises of better things.<\/p>\n
This contract will go full-time. You will get to advance. There will be good raises. What it all added up to was being told there is reason to stay here.<\/strong><\/p>\n Only there wasn’t.<\/p>\n I dutifully stayed and waited. I did great work. I asked about the promised things. Next year. Next quarter. The carrot always being pulled further away when it looked to be just in reach.<\/p>\n Eventually I learned. I learned to do what was in my best interest. Was there a better job? Go get it! Is there a shorter commute? Grab it! Is there more interesting work? Go do it!<\/p>\n When the challenge in my work disappeared, the only thing lest was money so I was an IT nomad. I went to work for the highest bidder.<\/p>\n I no longer listened to the Siren’s song of a future. I was there, for now.<\/p>\n 8 months here. One year. Two and a half years. Until the fun left. Until the challenge was gone. Until there was nowhere to go. So I went.<\/p>\n I learned to value what I was worth. Not just what I thought someone would pay me. I learned to start interviewing the companies as much as they interviewed me.<\/p>\n They need me more than I need them.<\/strong><\/p>\n There is a ton of work out there for IT people. I can afford to be selective. I can find the right situation for me.<\/p>\n And I have. I know what I want. I know what I’m worth. I know what is going to kill an opportunity for me. I know who I am and I am in control.<\/p>\n I turned down an offer that was nearly double what I was making four years ago because it wasn’t the right place for me. It felt insane.<\/p>\n The hubris of the situation is not lost on me…<\/p>\n But I knew I could do better. I didn’t have to take this job because there was a career out there for me. I just had to go out and find it.<\/p>\n And I think I have.<\/p>\n I’m just waiting for the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No one is going to look out for you like you. This is a lesson I learned too late in life. I stayed at jobs through ultimately misplaced loyalty and promises of better things. This contract will go full-time. You will get to advance. There will be good raises. What it all added up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"NEW POST: Look out for yourself. No one else will.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}