Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At Work?

Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by giantg2 on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:28AM (#32689801)

Not jumping from company to company has cost me a lot in both past and future earnings.

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by prodavamBabaSi on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:34AM (#32689853)

This !!! I made the same mistake as junior, thinking that staying at same place for years will get me to somewhere, spend 4 years as junior thinking "ok, it will not be that year, next year i will be mid for sure", nope, changed jobs and found pretty quick that not only my title was unnecessary delayed, i was in fact so grossly underpaid that my next role payed me almost 400% more

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by giantg2 on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:40AM (#32689928)

I've never switched. Philly is a terrible area for tech jobs. Same company for 10 years. Just barely touching $100k now.

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by hajmo97 on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:31AM (#32689825)

What would you say is the "perfect interval" to jump companies ?

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by GoToRO on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:45AM (#32689973)

As soon as a better offer lands. You gain nothing by waiting. After some jumps the interval at which better offers come your way, will naturally increase: there are very few jobs that pay well, respect the workers and so on.

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by giantg2 on Friday September 02, 2022 @09:18AM (#32690383)

"You gain nothing by waiting."

That can depend on vesting.

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by chunkles on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:39AM (#32689916)

The general wisdom is switching every two to two and a half years in order to maximize lifetime earnings.

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Re:Ask HN: What's The Most Expensive Mistake You've Made At ... by giantg2 on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:39AM (#32689915)

I doubt there is one.

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