I told my old employer that company loyalty is not really a thing anymore and he looked at me like I killed his dog or something. Yeah, people leave because another job gave them a better offer. If you care so much about your workers, give them a decent wage instead of beating around the bush.
Yeah that really is something that people in those higher positions fail to do and it's not like the TV and movies that's for sure and also can say good video of Cara. Really had suspicions about that lifestyle especially in these dangerous and uncertain times people really are either looking for that Instant Gratification now.
Any company that can last for centuries needs to invest a lot of money to stay in the game, that means some years employees will need to sacrifice some of their income, and in others the owner will have to forfeit any income for himself aswell. If you dont do that, the company will die, be bought or get into debt and risk blowing up. That means the owner needs to be known and work with everyone else and the country they work in needs to appreciate their products and support them. Its a deal that needs to be honored on both sides.
Just remember: if the company thought it was in their best interest to get rid of you, they’d do so with zero hesitation. No reason for you to act any differently
This, I get high at my job, I drink on my break and yet I'm a damn good worker. I'm not gonna act like this model cookie cutter employee just to make the same amount as the guy next to me. At that point I'm just doing whatever helps get through 8hrs faster.
@dinolover Before I went off to start my 2 businesses, I was an inventory supervisor for Walmart and towards the end of my "career" there I was constantly drinking on the job. I'm surprised no managers ever smell alcohol my breath. Ever since I left I've been alcohol free.
My dad worked for a company for 15 years. When one of the employees scammed the company and ran away with money, the company went on a loss and more responsibility was put on my dad. Company told my dad "we trust you, we believe in you, you were with us for 15 years". Long story short, my dad's health detoriated. When my dad retired, not even the boss bothered to contact him years later.
Why would he? Your dad was foolish for thinking a job gives a shit about him because he was there for 15yrs. I know guys who had jobs before I was even born, and yet they are just as likely to get fired like me, time means nothing.
@@dinolover man, in past times those things were looked differently. It was expected that you entered a company or workplace and worked there your entire life, except if you got a really good opportunity elsewhere. My dad was like that. At the end he hated the place he worked for but he was almost near retirement. He retired as soon as he could, because yeah, his health was also deteriorating. Now we are told to not be liked that, and go elsewhere if we are being mistreated or to always look for better opportunities to grow… because now you could also get fired because of anything. Now you are not expected to be loyal, but in past times that was considered something good, and also people had the mindset that a good worker was strong and could handle anything. Now we are looking to a better work/life balance and that same generation of people thinks bad about us because of it.
I just got recently “promoted” aka drafted into being a pharmacist manager. A technician quit because she found a job that paid her more with more benefits with a two week notice, then bailed earlier than that since her start date got pushed up. Everyone else was so shocked about her leaving as if it was a betrayal that deserved to have her blacklisted. As manager, I had to play the game act appalled on the outside. But on the inside, I couldn’t get mad; I would have done the same thing if I were in her position. The company made it very clear that there were not going to be any pay increases for them. She was the only one who did something about it.
Precisely this happened to me. Found a better job within government with a huge pay increase and closer to home. Gave my two weeks but they wanted me to stay longer to do inventory. I said no and they were upset and said I’d be listed as “non hireable”. I laughed and said if they feel the need to list that they can do as they wish. The turnover was so high so they were losing so many people. Like I’d ever want to come back! You have to be loyal to you, period. I’m onto bigger and better things. Sky’s the limit! Best of luck in your new job!
Same boat I am a specialized compounding pharmacist. I left after my previous employer failed to give me a small raise. I brought so much value and revenue to the company. I still keep in touch with the staff and managers (they all advocated for my raises but corporate denied all of them). My new replacement made more (so they paid an extra 4k), took time to train, and is currently failing at their job and will most likely be replaced, costing them business. Leaving was the best decision that I made, got into a company that valued me, payed me above average, and gave me profit sharing as well. My income went up over 50 percent. Jumping ship was the best decision I made.
This happened to me recently. A few specialized program spots opened up and everyone thought I would get one, including me, because I've worked here for over 10 years, am overqualified really and do the work no one else wants to do (aka management duties). Nope, they gave the spots away to someone who is underqualified and someone else who had worked for the company for only a few weeks. It was of course a total coincidence that these people worked for the smallest teams on the brink of falling over if they were to leave. In the weeks that followed it became increasingly apparent that they think I'm so loyal that I would not leave anyway. My boss just barely offered to cover certain courses I want to take to keep me happy, even though paying for them was never an issue for me. Fastforward to a few weeks later: I'm applying to multiple job ads. Getting another job and getting a higher salary won't be an issue, because the job market is extremely tight. Quite a few job ads have been open for over a year with no replies. The only thing I need to do is vet them for if they offer specialized program spots and then I'm quitting this joint. I gave them multiple chances after they gave away the spots and they did nothing, so I'm actually quite curious what they'll do when I finally do quit. They desperately need people, so they definitely can't afford to lose a fulltimer right now.
You are 100% correct. I every time I moved from job to job my salary has increased. However, you still have to be mindful on what job you're moving to. Sometime it's a trap.
@user-zv7lm8uk7h 'not a fun place working' but the first offer was looking good, can be the boss, the people or the work is not as described or stated, something like that... the risk to leave the current job to a new work place ;) The payment is a thing, staying in the same company they usually don't pay as good. It is a age/stand in life thing too, tough. When there is a partner or children involved, moving to a different city or state or country is very hard and risky for example.
@user-zv7lm8uk7h Yes, a trap. Sometimes the company you're moving to offers you a bit more than what you're currently making, but they double your responsibility because of your experience. It has happened to me when I switched to a startup company.
Yes, I went to a company that paid me a lotttt more, but I was miserable and left shortly after. The pay increase was not worth it. So people should proceed with caution.
@user-zv7lm8uk7h Beyond the written down ones such as pay and benefits, there are other factors too. And they tend not to appear officially on your offer letter. Such as work life balance and work environment
@@Cristian-yv2xf Same happened to me. Yes, I earn more but the job sucks. I really wish to get out asap. While I encourage actions to grow, sometimes stability is important. So it's necessary to make a good research on how the company you wish to move to is.
whenever a company tried to put that “family” thing on me i always knew i’d leave within about 3-6 months. it was weird to me the employees hated their jobs and were depressed but loved each other like a family and so they stayed, i didn’t want to end up like them so i always left whenever i felt i was getting too comfortable because i knew i had goals and other things i wanted to do.
I can really relate to this. I recently quit the first real job I've had since moving to Germany (of course I've been working from the beginning) but the higher ups treat us like shit, however the closeness we all built felt like nothing I ever had. I would have quit a year ago without these good collegues.. but really this was the right choice to actually move forward
I only have 1 colleague I get along with and formed a bond with , and she's leaving as well. I noticed that all the people at my workplace really hate it there, are extremely unsatisfied, but they got used to ot and are close to each other, so they stay. I got another colleague asking me if I changed my mind about leaving, and I always tell her that I didn't. She goes above and beyond to do extra stuff and acts like I betrayed someone because I don't want to stay with them .
That last 6 yrs of my work life. I would spend two yrs at each job then hopped to another employer that offered more $. Had I not done this. I would be making significantly less because after a yr or two I notice the wages increase shrinks an they try to win you over with a little bonus here an there and a free lunch. but those bonuses are nothing compared to an increase in hourly pay
I agree with the exploitation by management with loyal employees. I’ve witnessed “backdoor” deals for employees that job hop. When they get a job offer with a different company, they get leverage to negotiate promotion/better pay, often with success. For loyal employees, the company got you where they want you. They flagged you as a low “flight risk,” and placed you as low priority for promotion or pay increases, even if you’re more skillful, talented, and knowledgeable. It’s strictly business and it’s ruthless.
So in fact you have to check every two years your networth on the market and remind your current employer you have options, even if you are not the typ for bragging
This exact thing happened to me recently after working for my current employer for over 10 years. There were specialized program spots opening up and I was actually quite overqualified for one, but wanted it anyway because it means more pay and better job opportunities in the future. They gave one of the spots away to someone who had only worked there for a few weeks and didn't actually qualify. I know this person also got the highest salary out of everyone, even though their experience and skill doesn't come near to a few of my other colleagues. This person did work for a team with extremely high turn over and they had a meeting with the big boss just before the interviewing process began. Despite having the best performance reviews out of everyone, people are not worried about me leaving, and I'm realizing that this has actually weakened my position a lot. I've started looking for a new job and one of the companies I applied to actually called me to plan an interview within 24 hours of applying and was asking about my ambitions etc etc. The job market for my position is quite desperate right now, but this has taught me that despite this companies will still screw you over if they think you won't leave. I'm actually looking forward to their reaction now when I finally quit, because they will not be expecting it and will panic because they won't be able to fill my position (fulltimer and we already have ads out for over a year with zero applications).
I worked at a places for 8 months I think. At 6 months a new person started and made 10 cents more, just because. When I asked if I'd get that increase they gave me the run around and ignored me. I left 2 months later.
@DaBossBattle 10c is nothing. My coworker makes a whole $5 more than me !with my experience and expertise I could be making double of what I make but I've got kids so they don't hire me because they want full timers 8-5pm .
It baffling isn't it that everyone think that they got life Figured out, they are in control But yet when something unexpected starts blaming left and right to get a cent of donations pity 😅
@@jimbo7577corporations cant be good or bad. Corporations can only care about profit. If a corporation does something good, its for good PR and to boost profits, thats it. A small mom and pops store can be "good" because theres a human factor to it, a single person or two having all the decisionmaking abilities. Corporstions dont work like this. Theres just hundreds or thousands of people with zero personal responsibility in terms of morality, there to do one thing and one thing only, work to make the company profits and thats it. Corporation is like a computer program ordered to do something. It will do a task however it needs to in order to do its job. If this means firing 1000 people, it will be done and fhe cheapest way possible; if it can be done without any notice period and no money being given out, it will be done unless it would be bad PR. HR people and directors dont feel evil for doing so, theyre just doing what theyre told. A mom and pop store firing someone wont be the same. This is why libertarianism you seem to advocate for based on your avatar is, to me, more horrifying than communism (and im Polish). Nice in theory... but then you grow up and get to work and see how a corporation works and how souless it is, but because of that how it can CRUSH all small businesses and create monopolies, and ultimately gain more economical and political power than the goddamn government itself... is a fking dystopian Cyberpunk esque horror story.
Dont ever think they'll build you a statue when you leave, they will just look for your replacement and move on, im not saying its bad, just keep in mind that you can be gone at any given point, what you can do is while there, build your passive/side hustle. Company loyalty is indeed overrated. Thank you Cara for sharing
I really don't understand this "side hustle" bullshit everyone keeps talking about. I've heard so many people blab about it but all they ever do is sell drugs, trade stocks, or maybe do some moving jobs. One giy even went to thrift stores to try and make a few dollars profit on eBay. They all took up most of their free time. I truly don't think most people realize that getting married is the best "side hustle" you can do by combining incomes and goals. Have kids, all the focus goes on them. Extraneous purchases fall away.
I used to work for a company for 13 years. Love the “family vibes”. They even gave 3kg sugar per month to symbolise that employee have to get something sweet after working. Until one day, a new boss came.. and brave enough to triple my salary because I was paid 1/3 of the market value. I got my raise, my new boss got a lot of enemies, including HR and management. She moved away less than a year after the incident. I worked extra hard that year… I managed to tripled my revenue for the company. I prefer 3x salary over 3kg of sugar. 😂
I worked for a company for nearly 8 years. Over the entire time I was there, my pay only went from $80k to $100k. Got told by management I was too good at my job to move or promote. Left that job 3.5 years ago and immediately went from $100k to $175k with a promotion A few months back, I switched jobs again and went from $175k to $310k Had I not switched from that first job, less than 4 years ago, I’m confident I’d be in the exact same chair, in the exact same role, still making $100k
The titles 100% True! Last year I was a “company guy” for 13 years and finally had enough of the bs low pay and long hours from my now former employer. Decided to jump ship into a completely new career field and within a year got promoted to a management position and make almost twice what I topped out at the old place. The best part so far has been my old Boss first saying “you’ll be back in 6 months” to “we’re willing to give you a raise and negotiate the rest if you come back”, to me now telling him “ you can’t afford me….”.
My father did quite well working for a Fortune 50 company for 37 years. Now, he was wrongfully terminated, but he got a nice settlement. But, here is the best part. A year after termination, the company was bought out. My father scraped every free dime, exercised his stock options, none of which had expired, and made a lot of capital gains.
This came at a perfect time for me. I put in my letter of resignation and have been feeling guilty. I gave a 30 day notice for my clients. But if it wasn't for them I would've just left.
The CEO of the company I currently work for has been repeating we’re not a family for the past few months. As a newcomer, I like that the leadership recognise it BUT employees who have been her for 5 to 7 years are not happy. They found it insulting and I do not understand why…
Since I got my retail job, I’ve learnt that loyalty is not rewarded but punished. Hence why I vet the jobs I apply for to gain more experience and jump to another position. These companies can fire me at any point when they don’t like me. Why should I give them loyalty?! Stagnant wages and inflation are also great factors and income raise should be the most important goal of any employee. Harness your skills and get paid for them. Quite quitting is the best strategy to never get overloaded with no paid work. That’s will be the case for me now :)
Companies will fire you at any point when they don't like you. They will however also screw you over with promotions and raises even if they do like you. That's why the message of the video is so important. Loyality will be punished even if they do love your work.
I was interviewed by a company last week and I just felt in my guts that their work culture wasn’t what I was looking for. Even though they had headhunted me, their attitude was really bad, and they dodged my most important question I needed answers for. I think they knew they weren’t great at keeping their staff happy. Yuck!
Would you be willing to share what kind of questions you asked that they dodged and didn't want to answer? This could help me and other reading this if a job or enployer is good fit for someone or not.
@@Porygon2ning Absolutely! I work as a UX-designer, and to be able to do that job to the best of my potential I find it extremely important that there is some kind of feedback culture in place. It's also very important for my mental health, as well as the mental health and productiveness of the organisation as a whole. So I asked them. I wanted to know if they had a culture of recurring events and opportunities to bring up feedback and suggestions to change and improve the organisation, with regards to anything from processes to leadership to the mental health of the employees. (In my mind, these kinds of feedback sessions should be held weekly, within the UX team, and not like once every second month, because the job as a UX designer is incredibly dependent on collaboration with other people) But the interviewer, who is the boss/leader of the UX team, just scoffed at me and didn't give me any clear answers. That was a major red flag to me, and I suppose that they have a problem with feedback already - so I probably hit a sore spot by asking that question. Being condescending towards a interviewee who is passionate about a good feedback culture is generally a very weird thing to do, since it is proof that the interviewee is passionate about making the workplace function as smoothly as possible, which is great for the development of the company as a whole. Disregarding that kind of engagement in the very first interview is downright stupid. My previous interviewers gladly answered this question as well as they could - heck - some said they were even excited that I asked the question because they know how damn important a good feedback culture is.
When I started working I saw how companies can get rid and replace you in a heart beat. I would see an opportunity for a better employer and more pay I would take it.
Leaving for better opportunities is definitely the way to go. Unfortunately, in my current situation, I can't afford to quit my current job. But when the time comes, I will.
But you don’t just quit. Look for another opportunity while you’re at your current job and leave when you have the other guaranteed. Don’t wait, or else you’ll be telling yourself that “when the time comes I will”-story forever…
I think this is why it’s important to save no matter what the situation is. Live within your means and never spent your hard money on lavishing materials like vacations and technology. Always have a plan b incase shit hits the fan.
I was job hopping, but I got tired of that. Recruitment process is very stressful to me, and the new work environment is a hit or miss (and usually a miserable miss). So when I found my current job which is fulfilling, and I really like working here with comfortable, competitive pay I don't feel the need of switching job right now. I had some bad thoughts about not job hopping, but to be honest at some point money compensation stopped being very important to me. Many jobs bumped my salary considerably, but made me miserable. Having an enjoyable job significantly raised the quality of my life. The possibility of having a toxic work environment after a job hop keeps me at my current company. Compensation is not the single most important factor to me anymore.
I fell this! I personally dislike job hopping, flexibility at my current employer plus some other benefits( peace being one) are why I stay put. I could make more elsewhere but compensation isn’t the number one priority for me either.
My boss at my side hustle job where i work one day a week said at the Christmas party that we are a family. He is the owner of the restaurant. Just last month he took away the one day a week i work because one of the other delivery drivers wanted more days. Now im only on call when they need help. Way to go "dad"
I used to job hop a fair bit. I've been at my current company for almost 3 years, and they've promoted me several times, so I'm making 55% more than when I started. Now I'm keen to stay, so I don't have to build up all the credibility all over again, plus an IPO in a couple years wouldn't suck
Very wise advice! Over the last two years, I have changed companies twice and received 12% and 15% pay increases, respectively. This is far more than I would have received in annual raises “exceeding expectations”. Each new job I’ve taken has been a bit out of my comfort zone and I’ve used that as momentum to learn new skills and technologies on the company’s time 😊
This is the perfect video on this topic. You hit all the main talking points flawlessly. This is how I became rich and you explained everything perfectly in the perfect tone.
Another thing to think about is autonomy. I’ve been at my current company for more than three years but over the course of that time I’ve gained considerably higher autonomy than I would have if I had just hopped to another job. I work 100% remotely and for the most part don’t even work during the day but in the night cutting my workday in half while still getting paid full-time salary by doing the same output without distraction. That extra time also isn’t spent just slacking off, but actually leads to me being able to better my skills, making me a far more valuable asset when I finally do enter back into the job market. Because now I have this autonomy and a higher salary to leverage with a new employer wanting to hire me with the skills that I’ve been honing. Though I have gotten a raise since being here as well.
You are absolutely right, the company is not your family or friend; your managers are not looking out for your best interest. The purpose is profitability, and you are always expendable. Keep that in mind and make no apologies for improving your own life and career; nobody else will do it for you.
2 years?!? Thats too frequent for a lot of industries. But I do think there's something to a ladder strategy of 2 years, 3-5 years, 5-8 years, etc as you climb up management. But also there are sometimes personal life's reasons and stability to stay like benefits and if you have kids and need flexibility
I think this was a good, nuanced take on the matter. I have always increased my salary by leaving a company, but I've never left a company that was truly a good fit for me. Also, in teaching, we are on termed contracts that must be renewed. I never feel badly about leaving because all I owe an organization is the contract term.
Federal government positions on the GS pay scale are a good option if you want a decent work-life balance along with job security and a retirement plan after 20 years.
Gov is often better for the workers because they don't have to care about profit or efficiency. Quite the opposite, if they spend more they can tax more.
Job hopping really can be done when you are still starting your career. You cannot keep doing it for extended periods of time (across multiple jobs), or you risk developing a reputation for not staying long. Employers don't want to keep hiring people for the same positions.
So working in the education sector (like I am) loyalty is a really interesting topic. The "we are a family" thing is pushed tenfold, and you are pushed to work beyond your pay grade and means constantly, bc "think of the children". It can be incredibly rewarding, and I don't think I could work a standard office job, but it really stings when you realise how much effort you are putting in for next to minimum wage, and in the uk, most state schools are becoming part of trusts that seem to see schools as corporations. Having said that, I recently moved to working at a school that I can walk to (cutting out all my travel costs), pays slightly more, and has a gym I can use for nothing, so I'm happy where I am for now, or at least til I have enough experience to go do a doctorate.
It is highly convenient for this video to be made while I am actively job hunting because the job I have been working for the past 3 years doesn't have enough opportunities or benefits for me.
This is true I was at a job starting at $14. 5 years at that job was being paid $15. I left that job found a new job. Now I'm being paid $19 working at a condo. Seems like the 2 year thing is a great idea. You should know by then your not gonna get paid more so just look around who's paying better.
this video encouraged me to accept an offer for a totally new field. i've been working at the same company since i graduated, and haven't received a raise in two years. i still feel a bit guilty for leaving my manager but know this is a step in the right direction for my future :)
I'm English but I currently work for a US company. My first. I've been very surprised at how many times colleagues refer to their loyalty to the company, as if it were a positive personal quality. This is a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company I'm talking about. This is very different to back home, where people working for similar companies will tend to have (in my experience) literally no loyalty to it at all. It's a paper entity not a person after all, and it has zero loyalty to you. I wonder where this comes from for US workers, is it embedded at school or somewhere else?
In the 50s companies kept their employees, gave shares of the company for them and they got rich together until those employees retired and their sons were already working at the same company. If that happened to you, you would pledge allegiance to the company too. Im brazilian, my grandfather graduated engineering on the army in 1951 and got hired for willys (jeep) later, willys were bought by Ford, my grandfather went up in the ranks of the company and were awarded in the town for having the biggest pay check until he retired. Would you blame him for being loyal to the company that gave him everything?
@@BanjoPixelSnack Being "very surprised" is not an logical answer. Lots of people grew up hearing from their granparents and parents about the rewards of being loyal to the company. Its we that need to learn by ourselves, and the surprise is how much things changed.
I'm 60 years old so I can't just go out and job hop around. I 've been working at a company for the last 12 years and I have prefect attendance. I make $14.40 and hour which is 40 cents above minimum wage in my state. I was caretaker for my mother who had dementia and I was allowed to bring her to work with me because I couldn't afford adult daycare. After she died last year I was unable to stay in our apartment. I couldn't find a roommate so I lived in my car for 37 days last March while parked at the place where I work, and everyone knew I was living in the parking lot. For now I have an apartment but I will probably be back in my car after my lease runs out
I worked at Target over 4 years and increasingly became less valued instead of more. Management is also soooo important. I worked at 2 different stores. My first store Manager and shift managers were great. My second store...not so much. I left back when we were getting $13 and hour and now they start at like $16.50 which is much better but honestly still not worth it for me.
It’s true. If the company doesn’t pay you enough leave! I used to stay at this company for 4 years! Thinking I’ll move up they never gave me a better position! I’m not going to keep working for them if my pay is shitty!
I hate job hopping, but that’s how I saw my income rise. Pay raises tend to be meager, when you stay with your current employer. Oddly enough, outside hires tend to be better compensated than company loyalists.
Hi ! I just switched job fields completely two months ago ( from bartender and server to carpenter). When I left my last place of employment, I had a talk with management prior on the proper way they wanted me to place my two weeks, it went mostly well. And I went to pick up my last pay check and everyone was semi friendly. There have also been places in the past where I’ve done that and the environment has been semi hostile / unfriendly up until I finish my last two weeks. What I’ve noticed is you should place your two weeks AND finish them only for specific places. Not every company deserves a formal goodbye
Great video. Your delivery is succinct and approachable. Really useful for anyone, but especially those at the start of their careers. Can’t wait for more!
Thank you for this video. I'm changing the company where i work right now. You remind me that i'm more important for me that the gulty which my manager gives to me😢
I currently work for a family business. I love the freedom I get from working here but my income is horrible. I need to make more money for my children but it’s hard when the perks of being able able to leave when I need to are so beneficial. Maybe I need to get odd jobs but then it takes away time from my family. It’s hard lol
There is no honor among thieves. You will only wear yourself down. And when you finally make one small slip-up, they start a whole vendetta against you. Even if they have to drag the whole company down to their level.
100% been there and done that. Blind loyalty to a company got me stuck in dead end positions where I had to wear multiple hats and claw my way anywhere near upwards on the ladder on mediocre pay. Colleagues who set better boundaries on the other hand often received more appreciation for their effort and I later came to find out better compensation for their time. It took several years before I finally made a career change and got myself out of there, best decision I’ve ever made. Although I still do think about my former colleagues working there though in similar situations and hope working conditions have improved.
I stopped being loyal to any company a long time ago...They'll fire you or lay you off after they demand blood and all your time! NO MORE!!!! I do my job, I do a good job, but I am not anyone BFF or kiss anyone's @$$. I will not work weekend, or travel. I stopped doing this long ago.
In the engineering field here- I’ve never stayed at a company longer than 2 years, and on average receive a ~25% wage bump every hop, compared to the 3% increase the years I stay. Yet some managers are surprised when I give notice?
Very much agree with this message. This is something I espouse to all those willing to listen. I was at one company for 9 years .. and in hindsight, that was a problem
It depends on the situation. Sometimes company loyalty is good if the company deserves it. Sometimes it’s not good. Then again, sometimes the people working just aren’t the right people for the job. I’ve had really lazy co workers who complained ALL the time, and the job isn’t even that hard. They need to look inward at themselves more.
I really needed to hear this today. I like my new job, I like my new company, but... now I'm trapped in rural Alabama. It would be stupid to leave right now, or even anytime soon, but I definitely feel less bad for thinking about the future.
I used to work on a factory and watching the office looked like a dream job. Now i work in a office, when i was hired, bought lots of company shares on the stock exchange, since then, those stocks lost 4/5 of the value. 2 and a half years later, i got my wife pregnant, bought a bigger car and realized i got into the rat race. I decided to sell the stocks i had hopes for and will focus on things that work.
I need this information. Context: I'm improving my English skills, I need to listen to podcasts, watch TV shows, and so on. your YT channel is what I need.
I am a nurse in Sweden and job hopping is a thing in my field due to the same reasons as in the US i pressume. We are asked to sacrifice our time and our physical/mental health in a high stress enviroment during all hours of the day while our yearly salary revisions might yeld as much as 60 usd or as little as 10. Some of my coworkers have extra duties in addition to their work which should be yielding them significant bonuses but mainly seems to grant them a "thanks for your effort" from our employer. The issue with all this is that weather you are a RN or a CNA most don't get proficient in caring for the various maladies or patientgroups that frequent a ward untill well over 2 years have passed. Four years on the ward is generally considered to be enough time to have seen everything it has to offer. Now most hospitals in my region have wards staffed with personel that have less then 2 years of experience. I don't dislike job hopping, but the necessity of it irks me since the consequences of it, atleast in my field, are evident.
I see this with people who work in the service industry, too. And for the life of me, I can't understand it, especially at the place where I work now. It's a corporate ramen place, and some employees act like we are indebted to this place that pays us minimum wage, not taking paid breaks and such. It's bizarre to me. I just see victims of the capitalist mindset.
Greetings from Italy. I found your video very interesting. In this case, if I were to draw a parallel to Italian society, the concept of company loyalty exists, but we are more influenced by the idea of job security, which is essentially an equivalent trap that keeps people in the same job or position for decades. The Italian economy is not terrible, but it's not great either. So, we have a deep-seated belief that if you find something stable, you should hold onto it rather than taking the risk of making a change. This strong attachment to stability also affects other aspects of life in Italy. For instance, people here tend not to invest money unless they have a substantial amount saved up. In some ways, I find this conservative financial approach to be a good thing, but when it comes to job stagnation, it's certainly not ideal.
I work for an ESOP company which had ~70 employees when I started 9 1/2yrs ago. We are now tipping 100 employees, and I have been in numerous positions and departments within the company. Generally, what I’ve found is in order to keep my pay on pace with job hopping I had to create jobs and advocate for those roles and present their value to the company. I usually stay at the top of my pay level until I go to switch roles again every 2-3yrs. If you stay in the same position doing the same thing and bring nothing new to the table companies will start to either ignore you or worse, abuse your comfort status. There is a lot of stress involved with switching jobs. So if I can make what I feel is acceptable with a company I have a deeper background of knowledge with then I feel that heavily outweighs a slight income boost for my sanity.
Thank-you for this video! I once had a job that I was quite loyal to. I and everyone there were treated very well. We all worked quite hard and did the best that we could. Then new owners took over and eventually our loyalty slipped by the wayside. If the other owners had kept on running the place, it would've kept on being a great place to work. But that all left with the takeover. Even though there wasn't really much, if any, room for advancement with the old owners, most of us would've stayed for the very fact that we loved working there. We were paid fairly well and the benefits were decent. I, along with almost everyone else, ended up leaving within the first year of the new owners taking over. I did find a job that paid better, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Still, it was definitely worth leaving the job that had been ruined. One thing I've never liked is when people say, "Oh, we're a family at this workplace!" No, my coworkers are NOT my family. I have good friends at my workplace, and I am in touch with them outside of work. But as my best friend at work and I both agree, we don't see our coworkers as our family. It really annoys me when people insist on looking at their coworkers as family or as everyone they work with as their best friends. That's just not possible, unless you and your best friend(s) start a business together and are the only ones working together. That doesn't always work out, but that's a whole other thing. Currently I'm at a job that I no longer enjoy. It's another case of different owners coming in and taking over and wrecking things, but it's been quite difficult to find anything else. So I stay so that I have a steady income. I keep looking, though, and do occasionally take a second and even third job. I put my passion and enjoyment into other things, and that helps a huge deal. I do say, though, that if a person doesn't enjoy their job and is having an awful time there and feels that they can leave, especially if they have another job to go to, then, please, by all means, I urge you to do so for your own well being. It's not worth it being miserable if you can go on to something that will enrich your life and make you happy.
Honestly i am from Germany and some time ago you spoke with people using" Sie" which is you just polite. And i love it since you do not get the illusion that you company/ co workers are not your frinds( and for co workers you can beriend them if you like). But language shapes the way we think so if we are on a really friendly base with the company you really feel like family and so you sacrifice yourself more for the company. But sadly the normal " you" is more appreciated in campaigns nowadays...
I drive trucks and did a little job hopping over the last 5 years. Got criticism of it from older truckers, saying it was bad. I quadrupled my income while they’re working for average pay. 🤷🏻
I don’t think employees should be mindlessly loyal to their employee. However, people have to balance their needs when they job hop too frequently. A lot of frequent job hopping being successful is based on their being a robust job market that will allow you to easily move from job to job. You also need to consider the non monetary benefits/stressors of leaving a job. You may be trading in a job with a better work environment and amiable colleagues for one that is horribly run and that provides no work/life balance. There is also the stress of being the “new kid on the block” and having to learn entirely new process, office culture, and build new work relationships which can be stressful. Like Cara said, think strategically about these kinds of moves and don’t just move jobs because that’s the trend now.
yes, fully agree. This is also why every single place you deal with sucks. Every restaurant, take away, telco, university etc etc. Anyone that you need some employee to do something for you for your benefit. I work in a large place, we used to be good but now we have toxic management who job hopped to their current spot.. paid the role but not skilled for the role. The people who service the customers dont care about their work or have any knowledge or push to learn more and so the customers get a bad deal over time, the customers move on,, their expectations drop, their effort into the world drops and as a race we drop further and further down the drain we are already going. End up in a situation where 10 people whinge they want something but only 1 actually gets it, that 1 burns out and necks themselves.
Another amazing on a topic that is so prevelent, especially after covid, you are allways on point and argue well, as well as being stunning, hope you enjoy your week
I’m glad I’m not the only one that didn’t have healthcare from their employer. Got my first teaching job stayed 2 1/2 years and my coworkers were supportive of my new opportunity to earn more and receive healthcare
Very interesting video and a lot of what you said makes sense. I would consider myself a loyal employee and I'm definitely taken advantage of at my current job. Sometimes I wish I wasn't. My main excuse for sticking around at my current job is not knowing what I want to do in life and I guess in a way I've gotten comfortable here because it's a routine. I can't stand it when people say a workplace is a family or team. I don't see it as either. I see it as a business transaction. I'm sacrificing my time while providing labor and in return I am paid to do said labor. Nothing more. Nothing less. We're not family.
I jobbed hopped from Construction to Amazon. Now I make more money than ever since I hopped. The hours are a lot better & I work inside a facility. Where as the Construction I was working outside with bath room stalls...Another thing that is garbage in Construction.
Wife and I are complete opposites on this subject, she's been at same company for almost 10 years minimal raises. Versus me who has had 2 other jobs since then easily outpacing her earnings after the second job hop. I wfh but if I went into an office I would never hang anything personal at my cubicle. These companies are quick to let you go and would hate to have to gather a ton of crap I took into an office as am I'm being let go like Jan in the office 😂
I’m glad I saw this video. I’ve been at my current job for over 9 years making $32,000/year. I’m done being loyal to a company that doesn’t give their employees a livable wage 🙁
Many people phsycologicly still have tribe mentality towards thier company. Tribes worked together to survive and grow, and would ofter kill or be killed for one another. A company will always sacrifice a worker for its benefit and is only loyal to itself. Be loyal to yourself.
Corporations are not your family. 1 of my fav shows, & 1 of best of all time. Keep in mind in the plot of The Office; Dwight owned the building & was basically independently wealthy re to inheritance via a farm/land. He could afford to be loyal to Dunder Mifflin. Job Hoppers are smart ppl. that realize U have to worry about your own bottom line out there. The CEO that makes $20 million a year to run any XYZ whatever is not worrying about U. Brilliant video.
I'm on the switch every 2-3 years track myself. I like to think of myself as loyal to people and not companies. I will build networks with my coworkers and really try to be supportive of management goals. But when it's time to leave for money reasons I am going, going, gone lol.
I like my job for the most part, and I learned years ago that being loyal to the company gets you nothing unless your management or want be become one. I just do the job am required to do well and make sure they pay me overtime if they want me to work more. Besides managers we all get paid the same per hour anyway, and I get to work at the same good places as the people that think they need to tryhard. And I try to teach every new young person I have to train the same, because I see upper management try and exploit young new people all the time. Just do you required job well, work/life balance is important, and maybe take some side courses or classes if you want some change.
I have a small company who struggle a lot during Covid and I have to say that all my good employees that were loyal and comprehensive during the worst part of the business now that the pandemic is over they have a job in my company until the end of my life. I am totally grateful with them and I have compensated them for every extra effort they did to avoid the company to shut down. So in my case your theory is flawed, specially if you are not a young and ambitious employee but a family person in his/her late 40’s or early 50’s.
This isn't taking into consideration workplace bullying/toxic work environment, the trend of companies using an ATS to screen candidates as well as some companies requiring employees to sign a non compete clause
True... As a former senior dialysis nurse in Fresenius... I have had a few new hires that have literally the same or more pay than me... And I would be training and be responsible for them.
Would you work for 60k a year, 40 hours a week, with little stress or would you do 80k with 50 60 hours. Week with massive stress? Ill stick to the former.
Thanks for the advice, currently stuck in a job that I am too nervous to go back to coz I really don't understand what I'm doing and I think your advice helped, thank you...
The days of working for a company for your entire career went out when companies did away with pension plans (especially thru unions) - my hubby spent 30+ yrs to one company & just barely was able to collect his pension & other crucial benifits originally offered.
And you just earned yourself a new subscriber. This video alone gave me the mental push I needed to pull the plug on my current job. Really want to start building long term wealth via investing but minimum wage ain't helping me clear this debt any faster. So I need to move on, but being in school has limited my hours already. However, my mental has been in a rapid decline for months now with only a couple of people keeping me from going off the deep end. But this corporation has shown many times they don't care about how much I put into it if it isn't sales. So I've been planning my exit strategy for months. Just needed a good time to execute. This video feels like the sign I needed to seriously initiate it. So thanks.
It's important to consider where you are too (in regards to skillset). Meaning, even if the current company you're at is pretty low pay, but you're learning a ton, then it's probably worth staying as long as you can afford to do so in the shorter to mid term. Keep building those skills and then when you feel ready... either negotiate a payrise or board a different ship!
The ones that don't have that phrase"We are a family" are the ones that treat you like family....They actually pay and treat their employee right unlike a lot corporate organizations
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Just came across your page. I am Cara Nicole too! Much love and prosperity🙏💜
Do you have a boylfriend, you are a very attractive Trans woman
Finally, some one talking about this issue.
You are beautiful! Are you also Russian?
How many of the first 1000 people fell for the skillshare scam
The best advice I ever got from a manager of mine: "When it comes to your career, you need to be selfish"
That guy cared
Okay, but not to the point that you're hurting individuals 😆
Although its true in many ways But you also did it WILLINGLY, you can leave anytime...
Also you wouldn't take the risk in doing it yourself no?
@@AustraliaUnmasked1984 He didn't mean that you should throw your colleagues under the bus, but company loyalty hurts you
@@AustraliaUnmasked1984maybe she is really good at her work? Wtf
I told my old employer that company loyalty is not really a thing anymore and he looked at me like I killed his dog or something. Yeah, people leave because another job gave them a better offer. If you care so much about your workers, give them a decent wage instead of beating around the bush.
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Yeah that really is something that people in those higher positions fail to do and it's not like the TV and movies that's for sure and also can say good video of Cara. Really had suspicions about that lifestyle especially in these dangerous and uncertain times people really are either looking for that Instant Gratification now.
@@kellychuang8373facts
Any company that can last for centuries needs to invest a lot of money to stay in the game, that means some years employees will need to sacrifice some of their income, and in others the owner will have to forfeit any income for himself aswell. If you dont do that, the company will die, be bought or get into debt and risk blowing up. That means the owner needs to be known and work with everyone else and the country they work in needs to appreciate their products and support them. Its a deal that needs to be honored on both sides.
@@tenochtitlan2430 Yeah really a harsh reality that's only getting worse in our times.
Just remember: if the company thought it was in their best interest to get rid of you, they’d do so with zero hesitation. No reason for you to act any differently
This, I get high at my job, I drink on my break and yet I'm a damn good worker. I'm not gonna act like this model cookie cutter employee just to make the same amount as the guy next to me. At that point I'm just doing whatever helps get through 8hrs faster.
@dinolover Before I went off to start my 2 businesses, I was an inventory supervisor for Walmart and towards the end of my "career" there I was constantly drinking on the job. I'm surprised no managers ever smell alcohol my breath. Ever since I left I've been alcohol free.
This has 100% been proven as true in my 21 year career in Tech whether it be me or others I’ve worked with at a company.
you are nothing more than a wage slave to them.
@@dinoloverYou sound like a complete douche to be honest
My dad worked for a company for 15 years. When one of the employees scammed the company and ran away with money, the company went on a loss and more responsibility was put on my dad. Company told my dad "we trust you, we believe in you, you were with us for 15 years".
Long story short, my dad's health detoriated. When my dad retired, not even the boss bothered to contact him years later.
😱 😥
They don’t care about you really… but pretend to when they need you
Why would he? Your dad was foolish for thinking a job gives a shit about him because he was there for 15yrs. I know guys who had jobs before I was even born, and yet they are just as likely to get fired like me, time means nothing.
@@ClodaghQuinnchannel It's real f÷cked.
@@dinolover man, in past times those things were looked differently. It was expected that you entered a company or workplace and worked there your entire life, except if you got a really good opportunity elsewhere. My dad was like that. At the end he hated the place he worked for but he was almost near retirement. He retired as soon as he could, because yeah, his health was also deteriorating. Now we are told to not be liked that, and go elsewhere if we are being mistreated or to always look for better opportunities to grow… because now you could also get fired because of anything. Now you are not expected to be loyal, but in past times that was considered something good, and also people had the mindset that a good worker was strong and could handle anything. Now we are looking to a better work/life balance and that same generation of people thinks bad about us because of it.
I just got recently “promoted” aka drafted into being a pharmacist manager. A technician quit because she found a job that paid her more with more benefits with a two week notice, then bailed earlier than that since her start date got pushed up. Everyone else was so shocked about her leaving as if it was a betrayal that deserved to have her blacklisted. As manager, I had to play the game act appalled on the outside. But on the inside, I couldn’t get mad; I would have done the same thing if I were in her position. The company made it very clear that there were not going to be any pay increases for them. She was the only one who did something about it.
Precisely this happened to me. Found a better job within government with a huge pay increase and closer to home. Gave my two weeks but they wanted me to stay longer to do inventory. I said no and they were upset and said I’d be listed as “non hireable”. I laughed and said if they feel the need to list that they can do as they wish. The turnover was so high so they were losing so many people. Like I’d ever want to come back! You have to be loyal to you, period. I’m onto bigger and better things. Sky’s the limit! Best of luck in your new job!
so you are not that defiant
Same boat I am a specialized compounding pharmacist. I left after my previous employer failed to give me a small raise. I brought so much value and revenue to the company. I still keep in touch with the staff and managers (they all advocated for my raises but corporate denied all of them). My new replacement made more (so they paid an extra 4k), took time to train, and is currently failing at their job and will most likely be replaced, costing them business. Leaving was the best decision that I made, got into a company that valued me, payed me above average, and gave me profit sharing as well. My income went up over 50 percent. Jumping ship was the best decision I made.
This happened to me recently. A few specialized program spots opened up and everyone thought I would get one, including me, because I've worked here for over 10 years, am overqualified really and do the work no one else wants to do (aka management duties). Nope, they gave the spots away to someone who is underqualified and someone else who had worked for the company for only a few weeks. It was of course a total coincidence that these people worked for the smallest teams on the brink of falling over if they were to leave. In the weeks that followed it became increasingly apparent that they think I'm so loyal that I would not leave anyway. My boss just barely offered to cover certain courses I want to take to keep me happy, even though paying for them was never an issue for me.
Fastforward to a few weeks later: I'm applying to multiple job ads. Getting another job and getting a higher salary won't be an issue, because the job market is extremely tight. Quite a few job ads have been open for over a year with no replies. The only thing I need to do is vet them for if they offer specialized program spots and then I'm quitting this joint. I gave them multiple chances after they gave away the spots and they did nothing, so I'm actually quite curious what they'll do when I finally do quit. They desperately need people, so they definitely can't afford to lose a fulltimer right now.
Although its true in many ways But you also did it WILLINGLY, you can leave anytime...
Also you wouldn't take the risk in doing it yourself no?
You are 100% correct. I every time I moved from job to job my salary has increased. However, you still have to be mindful on what job you're moving to. Sometime it's a trap.
@user-zv7lm8uk7h 'not a fun place working' but the first offer was looking good, can be the boss, the people or the work is not as described or stated, something like that... the risk to leave the current job to a new work place ;)
The payment is a thing, staying in the same company they usually don't pay as good. It is a age/stand in life thing too, tough. When there is a partner or children involved, moving to a different city or state or country is very hard and risky for example.
@user-zv7lm8uk7h Yes, a trap. Sometimes the company you're moving to offers you a bit more than what you're currently making, but they double your responsibility because of your experience. It has happened to me when I switched to a startup company.
Yes, I went to a company that paid me a lotttt more, but I was miserable and left shortly after. The pay increase was not worth it. So people should proceed with caution.
@user-zv7lm8uk7h Beyond the written down ones such as pay and benefits, there are other factors too. And they tend not to appear officially on your offer letter. Such as work life balance and work environment
@@Cristian-yv2xf Same happened to me. Yes, I earn more but the job sucks. I really wish to get out asap. While I encourage actions to grow, sometimes stability is important. So it's necessary to make a good research on how the company you wish to move to is.
ALWAYS be selfish in the work world: your boss certainly will be.
I've learned that the hard way.
whenever a company tried to put that “family” thing on me i always knew i’d leave within about 3-6 months. it was weird to me the employees hated their jobs and were depressed but loved each other like a family and so they stayed, i didn’t want to end up like them so i always left whenever i felt i was getting too comfortable because i knew i had goals and other things i wanted to do.
I can really relate to this. I recently quit the first real job I've had since moving to Germany (of course I've been working from the beginning) but the higher ups treat us like shit, however the closeness we all built felt like nothing I ever had. I would have quit a year ago without these good collegues.. but really this was the right choice to actually move forward
I only have 1 colleague I get along with and formed a bond with , and she's leaving as well. I noticed that all the people at my workplace really hate it there, are extremely unsatisfied, but they got used to ot and are close to each other, so they stay.
I got another colleague asking me if I changed my mind about leaving, and I always tell her that I didn't. She goes above and beyond to do extra stuff and acts like I betrayed someone because I don't want to stay with them .
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That last 6 yrs of my work life. I would spend two yrs at each job then hopped to another employer that offered more $. Had I not done this. I would be making significantly less because after a yr or two I notice the wages increase shrinks an they try to win you over with a little bonus here an there and a free lunch. but those bonuses are nothing compared to an increase in hourly pay
Same!! It's the kiss of death. Bunch of losers who identify with their underpaid and BS jobs nobody cares about.
I agree with the exploitation by management with loyal employees. I’ve witnessed “backdoor” deals for employees that job hop. When they get a job offer with a different company, they get leverage to negotiate promotion/better pay, often with success. For loyal employees, the company got you where they want you. They flagged you as a low “flight risk,” and placed you as low priority for promotion or pay increases, even if you’re more skillful, talented, and knowledgeable. It’s strictly business and it’s ruthless.
Backroom deals are the norm.
So in fact you have to check every two years your networth on the market and remind your current employer you have options, even if you are not the typ for bragging
This exact thing happened to me recently after working for my current employer for over 10 years. There were specialized program spots opening up and I was actually quite overqualified for one, but wanted it anyway because it means more pay and better job opportunities in the future. They gave one of the spots away to someone who had only worked there for a few weeks and didn't actually qualify. I know this person also got the highest salary out of everyone, even though their experience and skill doesn't come near to a few of my other colleagues. This person did work for a team with extremely high turn over and they had a meeting with the big boss just before the interviewing process began.
Despite having the best performance reviews out of everyone, people are not worried about me leaving, and I'm realizing that this has actually weakened my position a lot. I've started looking for a new job and one of the companies I applied to actually called me to plan an interview within 24 hours of applying and was asking about my ambitions etc etc. The job market for my position is quite desperate right now, but this has taught me that despite this companies will still screw you over if they think you won't leave. I'm actually looking forward to their reaction now when I finally quit, because they will not be expecting it and will panic because they won't be able to fill my position (fulltimer and we already have ads out for over a year with zero applications).
I worked at a places for 8 months I think. At 6 months a new person started and made 10 cents more, just because. When I asked if I'd get that increase they gave me the run around and ignored me. I left 2 months later.
@DaBossBattle 10c is nothing. My coworker makes a whole $5 more than me !with my experience and expertise I could be making double of what I make but I've got kids so they don't hire me because they want full timers 8-5pm .
Cara's current employer watching this video with a Pikachu face right now. 😅
Lies again? Missing Cheques USD SGD
She’s most likely well off birth or is self employed
Stupid, petty jokes. People get hurt by the constant shifting of workers we rely on to get a good job done.
Although its true in many ways But you also did it WILLINGLY, you can leave anytime...
Also you wouldn't take the risk in doing it yourself no?
It baffling isn't it that everyone think that they got life Figured out, they are in control But yet when something unexpected starts blaming left and right to get a cent of donations pity 😅
Be a mercenary. Always remember a corporation will dump you as fast as they need to. Always remember that corporations are the enemy of mankind.
Would you prefer working in a commune? Corporations can be good or bad.
be a private contractor, be loyal only to yourself.
@@jimbo7577corporations cant be good or bad. Corporations can only care about profit. If a corporation does something good, its for good PR and to boost profits, thats it. A small mom and pops store can be "good" because theres a human factor to it, a single person or two having all the decisionmaking abilities. Corporstions dont work like this. Theres just hundreds or thousands of people with zero personal responsibility in terms of morality, there to do one thing and one thing only, work to make the company profits and thats it.
Corporation is like a computer program ordered to do something. It will do a task however it needs to in order to do its job. If this means firing 1000 people, it will be done and fhe cheapest way possible; if it can be done without any notice period and no money being given out, it will be done unless it would be bad PR. HR people and directors dont feel evil for doing so, theyre just doing what theyre told. A mom and pop store firing someone wont be the same.
This is why libertarianism you seem to advocate for based on your avatar is, to me, more horrifying than communism (and im Polish). Nice in theory... but then you grow up and get to work and see how a corporation works and how souless it is, but because of that how it can CRUSH all small businesses and create monopolies, and ultimately gain more economical and political power than the goddamn government itself... is a fking dystopian Cyberpunk esque horror story.
Corporations are communes…
Okay comrade 🤡🤦
I always say this “no matter how good of an employee you are, no one is irreplaceable”
Hell, even if you are irreplaceable, that still doesn't mean they'll value you.
Dont ever think they'll build you a statue when you leave, they will just look for your replacement and move on, im not saying its bad, just keep in mind that you can be gone at any given point, what you can do is while there, build your passive/side hustle. Company loyalty is indeed overrated. Thank you Cara for sharing
Regardless of how friendly you are with your coworkers, you’ll never speak to 99.99% of them ever again after the day you leave.
I really don't understand this "side hustle" bullshit everyone keeps talking about. I've heard so many people blab about it but all they ever do is sell drugs, trade stocks, or maybe do some moving jobs. One giy even went to thrift stores to try and make a few dollars profit on eBay. They all took up most of their free time.
I truly don't think most people realize that getting married is the best "side hustle" you can do by combining incomes and goals. Have kids, all the focus goes on them. Extraneous purchases fall away.
@@sercastamere9853Lmao, sure.
I used to work for a company for 13 years. Love the “family vibes”. They even gave 3kg sugar per month to symbolise that employee have to get something sweet after working.
Until one day, a new boss came.. and brave enough to triple my salary because I was paid 1/3 of the market value. I got my raise, my new boss got a lot of enemies, including HR and management. She moved away less than a year after the incident. I worked extra hard that year… I managed to tripled my revenue for the company.
I prefer 3x salary over 3kg of sugar. 😂
3kg sugar..😂😂 Are you for real?
@@anusha2465 seriously. The practice stop when our company got bought by an international company few years after I joined. But yes. 3kg of sugar.
Do you work on a sugarcane plantation?
@@vlad-dracul no. Financial Service industry
Aahhhhhh sugar 😂😂😂😂
I worked for a company for nearly 8 years. Over the entire time I was there, my pay only went from $80k to $100k. Got told by management I was too good at my job to move or promote.
Left that job 3.5 years ago and immediately went from $100k to $175k with a promotion
A few months back, I switched jobs again and went from $175k to $310k
Had I not switched from that first job, less than 4 years ago, I’m confident I’d be in the exact same chair, in the exact same role, still making $100k
Woah those job hops are amazing, congratulations!!
@jaycol21 what do you do?
@@thefinancialfreedomgirl Thanks!
@@olajuwonokunubi1869 Data Analytics, specifically in the Procurement and Supply Chain space.
That's pretty insane yo
The titles 100% True!
Last year I was a “company guy” for 13 years and finally had enough of the bs low pay and long hours from my now former employer. Decided to jump ship into a completely new career field and within a year got promoted to a management position and make almost twice what I topped out at the old place. The best part so far has been my old Boss first saying “you’ll be back in 6 months” to “we’re willing to give you a raise and negotiate the rest if you come back”, to me now telling him “ you can’t afford me….”.
My father did quite well working for a Fortune 50 company for 37 years.
Now, he was wrongfully terminated, but he got a nice settlement.
But, here is the best part. A year after termination, the company was bought out. My father scraped every free dime, exercised his stock options, none of which had expired, and made a lot of capital gains.
Bro is Rich Parentson 😂
This came at a perfect time for me. I put in my letter of resignation and have been feeling guilty. I gave a 30 day notice for my clients. But if it wasn't for them I would've just left.
The CEO of the company I currently work for has been repeating we’re not a family for the past few months.
As a newcomer, I like that the leadership recognise it BUT employees who have been her for 5 to 7 years are not happy. They found it insulting and I do not understand why…
Those employees need to learn professionalism
the CEO is telling them Santa Claus doesn't exist. He is tearing apart the illusion their entire career was built upon
Maybe they got attached
I guess it's code for layoffs are coming, better start looking out
@@bharatkrishna7082 Nah! He's just one of a few honest CEO's.
Something I often tell younger friends, he’s your boss, not your friend, and they are doing their best to get the most out of you….which is their job.
so neat using the office as an example of company loyalty!
Since I got my retail job, I’ve learnt that loyalty is not rewarded but punished. Hence why I vet the jobs I apply for to gain more experience and jump to another position. These companies can fire me at any point when they don’t like me. Why should I give them loyalty?!
Stagnant wages and inflation are also great factors and income raise should be the most important goal of any employee. Harness your skills and get paid for them. Quite quitting is the best strategy to never get overloaded with no paid work. That’s will be the case for me now :)
Companies will fire you at any point when they don't like you. They will however also screw you over with promotions and raises even if they do like you. That's why the message of the video is so important. Loyality will be punished even if they do love your work.
I was interviewed by a company last week and I just felt in my guts that their work culture wasn’t what I was looking for. Even though they had headhunted me, their attitude was really bad, and they dodged my most important question I needed answers for. I think they knew they weren’t great at keeping their staff happy. Yuck!
Would you be willing to share what kind of questions you asked that they dodged and didn't want to answer? This could help me and other reading this if a job or enployer is good fit for someone or not.
@@Porygon2ning Absolutely!
I work as a UX-designer, and to be able to do that job to the best of my potential I find it extremely important that there is some kind of feedback culture in place. It's also very important for my mental health, as well as the mental health and productiveness of the organisation as a whole.
So I asked them. I wanted to know if they had a culture of recurring events and opportunities to bring up feedback and suggestions to change and improve the organisation, with regards to anything from processes to leadership to the mental health of the employees. (In my mind, these kinds of feedback sessions should be held weekly, within the UX team, and not like once every second month, because the job as a UX designer is incredibly dependent on collaboration with other people)
But the interviewer, who is the boss/leader of the UX team, just scoffed at me and didn't give me any clear answers.
That was a major red flag to me, and I suppose that they have a problem with feedback already - so I probably hit a sore spot by asking that question.
Being condescending towards a interviewee who is passionate about a good feedback culture is generally a very weird thing to do, since it is proof that the interviewee is passionate about making the workplace function as smoothly as possible, which is great for the development of the company as a whole. Disregarding that kind of engagement in the very first interview is downright stupid.
My previous interviewers gladly answered this question as well as they could - heck - some said they were even excited that I asked the question because they know how damn important a good feedback culture is.
@@Porygon2ning I'm also curious. Always nice to know what red flags other people see.
@@Porygon2ningI would also like to know.
@@joress same
When I started working I saw how companies can get rid and replace you in a heart beat. I would see an opportunity for a better employer and more pay I would take it.
Job hopping is the best way to get a pay raise. Corporate loyalty to you is dead, don't give loyalty to those who don't have it for you.
Leaving for better opportunities is definitely the way to go. Unfortunately, in my current situation, I can't afford to quit my current job. But when the time comes, I will.
But you don’t just quit. Look for another opportunity while you’re at your current job and leave when you have the other guaranteed. Don’t wait, or else you’ll be telling yourself that “when the time comes I will”-story forever…
@@BeaGiusti no its better to be in enternal job seeking process right?
I think this is why it’s important to save no matter what the situation is. Live within your means and never spent your hard money on lavishing materials like vacations and technology. Always have a plan b incase shit hits the fan.
I was job hopping, but I got tired of that. Recruitment process is very stressful to me, and the new work environment is a hit or miss (and usually a miserable miss). So when I found my current job which is fulfilling, and I really like working here with comfortable, competitive pay I don't feel the need of switching job right now. I had some bad thoughts about not job hopping, but to be honest at some point money compensation stopped being very important to me. Many jobs bumped my salary considerably, but made me miserable. Having an enjoyable job significantly raised the quality of my life. The possibility of having a toxic work environment after a job hop keeps me at my current company. Compensation is not the single most important factor to me anymore.
I fell this! I personally dislike job hopping, flexibility at my current employer plus some other benefits( peace being one) are why I stay put. I could make more elsewhere but compensation isn’t the number one priority for me either.
My boss at my side hustle job where i work one day a week said at the Christmas party that we are a family. He is the owner of the restaurant. Just last month he took away the one day a week i work because one of the other delivery drivers wanted more days. Now im only on call when they need help. Way to go "dad"
I came across a really good quote - "If you are not learning or earning enough at your current company, then its time to switch
I used to job hop a fair bit. I've been at my current company for almost 3 years, and they've promoted me several times, so I'm making 55% more than when I started. Now I'm keen to stay, so I don't have to build up all the credibility all over again, plus an IPO in a couple years wouldn't suck
Very wise advice!
Over the last two years, I have changed companies twice and received 12% and 15% pay increases, respectively. This is far more than I would have received in annual raises “exceeding expectations”. Each new job I’ve taken has been a bit out of my comfort zone and I’ve used that as momentum to learn new skills and technologies on the company’s time 😊
Same story here, switching jobs is key to getting ahead in life now.
This is the perfect video on this topic. You hit all the main talking points flawlessly. This is how I became rich and you explained everything perfectly in the perfect tone.
Thank you so much!
Another thing to think about is autonomy. I’ve been at my current company for more than three years but over the course of that time I’ve gained considerably higher autonomy than I would have if I had just hopped to another job. I work 100% remotely and for the most part don’t even work during the day but in the night cutting my workday in half while still getting paid full-time salary by doing the same output without distraction. That extra time also isn’t spent just slacking off, but actually leads to me being able to better my skills, making me a far more valuable asset when I finally do enter back into the job market. Because now I have this autonomy and a higher salary to leverage with a new employer wanting to hire me with the skills that I’ve been honing. Though I have gotten a raise since being here as well.
Thank you for this....
You are absolutely right, the company is not your family or friend; your managers are not looking out for your best interest.
The purpose is profitability, and you are always expendable. Keep that in mind and make no apologies for improving your own life and career; nobody else will do it for you.
2 years?!? Thats too frequent for a lot of industries. But I do think there's something to a ladder strategy of 2 years, 3-5 years, 5-8 years, etc as you climb up management. But also there are sometimes personal life's reasons and stability to stay like benefits and if you have kids and need flexibility
I think this was a good, nuanced take on the matter. I have always increased my salary by leaving a company, but I've never left a company that was truly a good fit for me. Also, in teaching, we are on termed contracts that must be renewed. I never feel badly about leaving because all I owe an organization is the contract term.
Federal government positions on the GS pay scale are a good option if you want a decent work-life balance along with job security and a retirement plan after 20 years.
Gov is often better for the workers because they don't have to care about profit or efficiency. Quite the opposite, if they spend more they can tax more.
Currently in aerospace and trying get a government position but still haven’t scored an interview. Won’t give up tho.
Job hopping really can be done when you are still starting your career. You cannot keep doing it for extended periods of time (across multiple jobs), or you risk developing a reputation for not staying long. Employers don't want to keep hiring people for the same positions.
So working in the education sector (like I am) loyalty is a really interesting topic. The "we are a family" thing is pushed tenfold, and you are pushed to work beyond your pay grade and means constantly, bc "think of the children". It can be incredibly rewarding, and I don't think I could work a standard office job, but it really stings when you realise how much effort you are putting in for next to minimum wage, and in the uk, most state schools are becoming part of trusts that seem to see schools as corporations. Having said that, I recently moved to working at a school that I can walk to (cutting out all my travel costs), pays slightly more, and has a gym I can use for nothing, so I'm happy where I am for now, or at least til I have enough experience to go do a doctorate.
It is highly convenient for this video to be made while I am actively job hunting because the job I have been working for the past 3 years doesn't have enough opportunities or benefits for me.
This is true I was at a job starting at $14. 5 years at that job was being paid $15. I left that job found a new job. Now I'm being paid $19 working at a condo. Seems like the 2 year thing is a great idea. You should know by then your not gonna get paid more so just look around who's paying better.
this video encouraged me to accept an offer for a totally new field. i've been working at the same company since i graduated, and haven't received a raise in two years. i still feel a bit guilty for leaving my manager but know this is a step in the right direction for my future :)
love that for you, congratulations!
I'm English but I currently work for a US company. My first. I've been very surprised at how many times colleagues refer to their loyalty to the company, as if it were a positive personal quality. This is a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company I'm talking about. This is very different to back home, where people working for similar companies will tend to have (in my experience) literally no loyalty to it at all. It's a paper entity not a person after all, and it has zero loyalty to you. I wonder where this comes from for US workers, is it embedded at school or somewhere else?
In the 50s companies kept their employees, gave shares of the company for them and they got rich together until those employees retired and their sons were already working at the same company.
If that happened to you, you would pledge allegiance to the company too.
Im brazilian, my grandfather graduated engineering on the army in 1951 and got hired for willys (jeep) later, willys were bought by Ford, my grandfather went up in the ranks of the company and were awarded in the town for having the biggest pay check until he retired.
Would you blame him for being loyal to the company that gave him everything?
US systemic brainwashing. It keeps those ants in line
@@guilhermecaiado5384 You said yourself, this was the 1950s. It’s not the same now.
@@BanjoPixelSnack Being "very surprised" is not an logical answer. Lots of people grew up hearing from their granparents and parents about the rewards of being loyal to the company.
Its we that need to learn by ourselves, and the surprise is how much things changed.
I'm 60 years old so I can't just go out and job hop around. I 've been working at a company for the last 12 years and I have prefect attendance. I make $14.40 and hour which is 40 cents above minimum wage in my state. I was caretaker for my mother who had dementia and I was allowed to bring her to work with me because I couldn't afford adult daycare. After she died last year I was unable to stay in our apartment. I couldn't find a roommate so I lived in my car for 37 days last March while parked at the place where I work, and everyone knew I was living in the parking lot. For now I have an apartment but I will probably be back in my car after my lease runs out
I worked at Target over 4 years and increasingly became less valued instead of more. Management is also soooo important. I worked at 2 different stores. My first store Manager and shift managers were great. My second store...not so much. I left back when we were getting $13 and hour and now they start at like $16.50 which is much better but honestly still not worth it for me.
@willrivers1819 Yeah, I know. That's why I said "still not worth it" 😒
It’s true. If the company doesn’t pay you enough leave! I used to stay at this company for 4 years! Thinking I’ll move up they never gave me a better position! I’m not going to keep working for them if my pay is shitty!
I hate job hopping, but that’s how I saw my income rise. Pay raises tend to be meager, when you stay with your current employer. Oddly enough, outside hires tend to be better compensated than company loyalists.
Hi !
I just switched job fields completely two months ago ( from bartender and server to carpenter). When I left my last place of employment, I had a talk with management prior on the proper way they wanted me to place my two weeks, it went mostly well. And I went to pick up my last pay check and everyone was semi friendly.
There have also been places in the past where I’ve done that and the environment has been semi hostile / unfriendly up until I finish my last two weeks.
What I’ve noticed is you should place your two weeks AND finish them only for specific places. Not every company deserves a formal goodbye
Great video. Your delivery is succinct and approachable. Really useful for anyone, but especially those at the start of their careers. Can’t wait for more!
Thank you for this video. I'm changing the company where i work right now. You remind me that i'm more important for me that the gulty which my manager gives to me😢
I currently work for a family business. I love the freedom I get from working here but my income is horrible. I need to make more money for my children but it’s hard when the perks of being able able to leave when I need to are so beneficial. Maybe I need to get odd jobs but then it takes away time from my family. It’s hard lol
There is no honor among thieves.
You will only wear yourself down. And when you finally make one small slip-up, they start a whole vendetta against you.
Even if they have to drag the whole company down to their level.
100% been there and done that. Blind loyalty to a company got me stuck in dead end positions where I had to wear multiple hats and claw my way anywhere near upwards on the ladder on mediocre pay.
Colleagues who set better boundaries on the other hand often received more appreciation for their effort and I later came to find out better compensation for their time.
It took several years before I finally made a career change and got myself out of there, best decision I’ve ever made. Although I still do think about my former colleagues working there though in similar situations and hope working conditions have improved.
I stopped being loyal to any company a long time ago...They'll fire you or lay you off after they demand blood and all your time! NO MORE!!!! I do my job, I do a good job, but I am not anyone BFF or kiss anyone's @$$. I will not work weekend, or travel. I stopped doing this long ago.
In the engineering field here- I’ve never stayed at a company longer than 2 years, and on average receive a ~25% wage bump every hop, compared to the 3% increase the years I stay. Yet some managers are surprised when I give notice?
These videos are so well put together, keep them coming!
Glad you like them! 😄
Very much agree with this message. This is something I espouse to all those willing to listen. I was at one company for 9 years .. and in hindsight, that was a problem
These video essays are so well done and insightful!
It depends on the situation.
Sometimes company loyalty is good if the company deserves it.
Sometimes it’s not good.
Then again, sometimes the people working just aren’t the right people for the job.
I’ve had really lazy co workers who complained ALL the time, and the job isn’t even that hard.
They need to look inward at themselves more.
I really needed to hear this today. I like my new job, I like my new company, but... now I'm trapped in rural Alabama. It would be stupid to leave right now, or even anytime soon, but I definitely feel less bad for thinking about the future.
I used to work on a factory and watching the office looked like a dream job.
Now i work in a office, when i was hired, bought lots of company shares on the stock exchange, since then, those stocks lost 4/5 of the value.
2 and a half years later, i got my wife pregnant, bought a bigger car and realized i got into the rat race.
I decided to sell the stocks i had hopes for and will focus on things that work.
The phrase "It's not personal, it's just business" cuts both ways.
I need this information. Context: I'm improving my English skills, I need to listen to podcasts, watch TV shows, and so on. your YT channel is what I need.
I am a nurse in Sweden and job hopping is a thing in my field due to the same reasons as in the US i pressume. We are asked to sacrifice our time and our physical/mental health in a high stress enviroment during all hours of the day while our yearly salary revisions might yeld as much as 60 usd or as little as 10. Some of my coworkers have extra duties in addition to their work which should be yielding them significant bonuses but mainly seems to grant them a "thanks for your effort" from our employer. The issue with all this is that weather you are a RN or a CNA most don't get proficient in caring for the various maladies or patientgroups that frequent a ward untill well over 2 years have passed. Four years on the ward is generally considered to be enough time to have seen everything it has to offer.
Now most hospitals in my region have wards staffed with personel that have less then 2 years of experience. I don't dislike job hopping, but the necessity of it irks me since the consequences of it, atleast in my field, are evident.
“I love my company, I can see myself grow with them” until I watched this video.
I see this with people who work in the service industry, too. And for the life of me, I can't understand it, especially at the place where I work now. It's a corporate ramen place, and some employees act like we are indebted to this place that pays us minimum wage, not taking paid breaks and such. It's bizarre to me. I just see victims of the capitalist mindset.
Omg I needed this!!! I was feeling guilty for leaving the previous company I was working at.
Greetings from Italy. I found your video very interesting. In this case, if I were to draw a parallel to Italian society, the concept of company loyalty exists, but we are more influenced by the idea of job security, which is essentially an equivalent trap that keeps people in the same job or position for decades. The Italian economy is not terrible, but it's not great either. So, we have a deep-seated belief that if you find something stable, you should hold onto it rather than taking the risk of making a change. This strong attachment to stability also affects other aspects of life in Italy. For instance, people here tend not to invest money unless they have a substantial amount saved up. In some ways, I find this conservative financial approach to be a good thing, but when it comes to job stagnation, it's certainly not ideal.
Look at all jobs as a school. Learn whatever you can. Then graduate to a next level. It can be promotion, or a new company
I work for an ESOP company which had ~70 employees when I started 9 1/2yrs ago. We are now tipping 100 employees, and I have been in numerous positions and departments within the company. Generally, what I’ve found is in order to keep my pay on pace with job hopping I had to create jobs and advocate for those roles and present their value to the company. I usually stay at the top of my pay level until I go to switch roles again every 2-3yrs. If you stay in the same position doing the same thing and bring nothing new to the table companies will start to either ignore you or worse, abuse your comfort status.
There is a lot of stress involved with switching jobs. So if I can make what I feel is acceptable with a company I have a deeper background of knowledge with then I feel that heavily outweighs a slight income boost for my sanity.
Thank-you for this video!
I once had a job that I was quite loyal to. I and everyone there were treated very well. We all worked quite hard and did the best that we could. Then new owners took over and eventually our loyalty slipped by the wayside. If the other owners had kept on running the place, it would've kept on being a great place to work. But that all left with the takeover.
Even though there wasn't really much, if any, room for advancement with the old owners, most of us would've stayed for the very fact that we loved working there. We were paid fairly well and the benefits were decent.
I, along with almost everyone else, ended up leaving within the first year of the new owners taking over. I did find a job that paid better, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Still, it was definitely worth leaving the job that had been ruined.
One thing I've never liked is when people say, "Oh, we're a family at this workplace!" No, my coworkers are NOT my family. I have good friends at my workplace, and I am in touch with them outside of work. But as my best friend at work and I both agree, we don't see our coworkers as our family. It really annoys me when people insist on looking at their coworkers as family or as everyone they work with as their best friends. That's just not possible, unless you and your best friend(s) start a business together and are the only ones working together. That doesn't always work out, but that's a whole other thing.
Currently I'm at a job that I no longer enjoy. It's another case of different owners coming in and taking over and wrecking things, but it's been quite difficult to find anything else. So I stay so that I have a steady income. I keep looking, though, and do occasionally take a second and even third job. I put my passion and enjoyment into other things, and that helps a huge deal.
I do say, though, that if a person doesn't enjoy their job and is having an awful time there and feels that they can leave, especially if they have another job to go to, then, please, by all means, I urge you to do so for your own well being. It's not worth it being miserable if you can go on to something that will enrich your life and make you happy.
Honestly i am from Germany and some time ago you spoke with people using" Sie" which is you just polite. And i love it since you do not get the illusion that you company/ co workers are not your frinds( and for co workers you can beriend them if you like). But language shapes the way we think so if we are on a really friendly base with the company you really feel like family and so you sacrifice yourself more for the company. But sadly the normal " you" is more appreciated in campaigns nowadays...
I drive trucks and did a little job hopping over the last 5 years. Got criticism of it from older truckers, saying it was bad. I quadrupled my income while they’re working for average pay. 🤷🏻
I don’t think employees should be mindlessly loyal to their employee. However, people have to balance their needs when they job hop too frequently. A lot of frequent job hopping being successful is based on their being a robust job market that will allow you to easily move from job to job. You also need to consider the non monetary benefits/stressors of leaving a job. You may be trading in a job with a better work environment and amiable colleagues for one that is horribly run and that provides no work/life balance. There is also the stress of being the “new kid on the block” and having to learn entirely new process, office culture, and build new work relationships which can be stressful. Like Cara said, think strategically about these kinds of moves and don’t just move jobs because that’s the trend now.
yes, fully agree. This is also why every single place you deal with sucks. Every restaurant, take away, telco, university etc etc. Anyone that you need some employee to do something for you for your benefit.
I work in a large place, we used to be good but now we have toxic management who job hopped to their current spot.. paid the role but not skilled for the role.
The people who service the customers dont care about their work or have any knowledge or push to learn more and so the customers get a bad deal
over time, the customers move on,, their expectations drop, their effort into the world drops and as a race we drop further and further down the drain we are already going.
End up in a situation where 10 people whinge they want something but only 1 actually gets it, that 1 burns out and necks themselves.
Another amazing on a topic that is so prevelent, especially after covid, you are allways on point and argue well, as well as being stunning, hope you enjoy your week
I’m glad I’m not the only one that didn’t have healthcare from their employer. Got my first teaching job stayed 2 1/2 years and my coworkers were supportive of my new opportunity to earn more and receive healthcare
There was a time when I was denied employment because of too many jobs on my resume(1970's)
Very interesting video and a lot of what you said makes sense. I would consider myself a loyal employee and I'm definitely taken advantage of at my current job. Sometimes I wish I wasn't. My main excuse for sticking around at my current job is not knowing what I want to do in life and I guess in a way I've gotten comfortable here because it's a routine. I can't stand it when people say a workplace is a family or team. I don't see it as either. I see it as a business transaction. I'm sacrificing my time while providing labor and in return I am paid to do said labor. Nothing more. Nothing less. We're not family.
I got out of health institutions and started my own private practice, best decision ever.
I jobbed hopped from Construction to Amazon. Now I make more money than ever since I hopped. The hours are a lot better & I work inside a facility. Where as the Construction I was working outside with bath room stalls...Another thing that is garbage in Construction.
Wife and I are complete opposites on this subject, she's been at same company for almost 10 years minimal raises. Versus me who has had 2 other jobs since then easily outpacing her earnings after the second job hop. I wfh but if I went into an office I would never hang anything personal at my cubicle. These companies are quick to let you go and would hate to have to gather a ton of crap I took into an office as am I'm being let go like Jan in the office 😂
I’m glad I saw this video. I’ve been at my current job for over 9 years making $32,000/year. I’m done being loyal to a company that doesn’t give their employees a livable wage 🙁
Many people phsycologicly still have tribe mentality towards thier company. Tribes worked together to survive and grow, and would ofter kill or be killed for one another. A company will always sacrifice a worker for its benefit and is only loyal to itself. Be loyal to yourself.
Corporations are not your family. 1 of my fav shows, & 1 of best of all time. Keep in mind in the plot of The Office; Dwight owned the building & was basically independently wealthy re to inheritance via a farm/land. He could afford to be loyal to Dunder Mifflin. Job Hoppers are smart ppl. that realize U have to worry about your own bottom line out there. The CEO that makes $20 million a year to run any XYZ whatever is not worrying about U. Brilliant video.
I'm on the switch every 2-3 years track myself. I like to think of myself as loyal to people and not companies. I will build networks with my coworkers and really try to be supportive of management goals. But when it's time to leave for money reasons I am going, going, gone lol.
I like my job for the most part, and I learned years ago that being loyal to the company gets you nothing unless your management or want be become one.
I just do the job am required to do well and make sure they pay me overtime if they want me to work more. Besides managers we all get paid the same per hour anyway, and I get to work at the same good places as the people that think they need to tryhard.
And I try to teach every new young person I have to train the same, because I see upper management try and exploit young new people all the time.
Just do you required job well, work/life balance is important, and maybe take some side courses or classes if you want some change.
I have a small company who struggle a lot during Covid and I have to say that all my good employees that were loyal and comprehensive during the worst part of the business now that the pandemic is over they have a job in my company until the end of my life. I am totally grateful with them and I have compensated them for every extra effort they did to avoid the company to shut down. So in my case your theory is flawed, specially if you are not a young and ambitious employee but a family person in his/her late 40’s or early 50’s.
This isn't taking into consideration workplace bullying/toxic work environment, the trend of companies using an ATS to screen candidates as well as some companies requiring employees to sign a non compete clause
What does ATS stand for?
True... As a former senior dialysis nurse in Fresenius... I have had a few new hires that have literally the same or more pay than me... And I would be training and be responsible for them.
Your whole channel is the beneficial and reasonable part of Reddit. Keep it up!
Would you work for 60k a year, 40 hours a week, with little stress or would you do 80k with 50 60 hours. Week with massive stress?
Ill stick to the former.
Let me know when you need a house? You can't do that in 2023 with inflation. YOU NEED that 90K for a starter home today
Thanks for the advice, currently stuck in a job that I am too nervous to go back to coz I really don't understand what I'm doing and I think your advice helped, thank you...
The days of working for a company for your entire career went out when companies did away with pension plans (especially thru unions) - my hubby spent 30+ yrs to one company & just barely was able to collect his pension & other crucial benifits originally offered.
In that sense it's criminal we're taught to not be selfish
Definitely some food for thought, and a very creative angle with the show :))
Thank you, Cara 🌷
And you just earned yourself a new subscriber. This video alone gave me the mental push I needed to pull the plug on my current job. Really want to start building long term wealth via investing but minimum wage ain't helping me clear this debt any faster. So I need to move on, but being in school has limited my hours already. However, my mental has been in a rapid decline for months now with only a couple of people keeping me from going off the deep end. But this corporation has shown many times they don't care about how much I put into it if it isn't sales. So I've been planning my exit strategy for months. Just needed a good time to execute. This video feels like the sign I needed to seriously initiate it. So thanks.
It's important to consider where you are too (in regards to skillset). Meaning, even if the current company you're at is pretty low pay, but you're learning a ton, then it's probably worth staying as long as you can afford to do so in the shorter to mid term. Keep building those skills and then when you feel ready... either negotiate a payrise or board a different ship!
The ones that don't have that phrase"We are a family" are the ones that treat you like family....They actually pay and treat their employee right unlike a lot corporate organizations