The Ad
- college degree
- 2 years experience
- good pay and benefits
- eeoc compliant
Please send your resume
The Interview
I see that you have a 4.0 from a top school. That's great.
3 years experience in our industry. Seems like you had some great technical experience.
So where would you like to be in 5 years?
Management, great! We need young leaders.
You're a great candidate, I'm going to recommend and offer.
The Offer
Above market pay...
401k with matching contributions!
Health insurance!
Company Car!
Sweet.
The first year
It's been tough, but I've met or exceeded all of my goals.
Great, here's your 2.7% raise.
Keep up the good work.
Years 2-3 go by
The work that was interesting is now largely very rote.
The raises he kept pace with inflation, and they kept their end of the deal so far.
The Yearning
But a real jump in salary, responsibility, or prestige isn't coming.
The company has made you a cog in their machine. Barring anything happening to the company or the economy, you'll probably be here until you're ready to retire.
It's just that you'll be doing the same thing.
Maybe you might train some interns to do what you do, but that's really the end all be all of your job.
Someone needs to die in essence for you to move up.
But shouldn't you be satisfied? A bunch of people don't have jobs, those that do, don't have one as good as you.
Yet a handful of people, with your exact background and worse have better jobs.
Dare you aspire?
Is it okay to ask for more?
Is it okay to want more for your life's work than this job?
What do you think of the person who hired you?
What do you think of the person you work under?
He must hope that you're happy with your lot in life.
That's why he chose you.
You were perfectly okay with doing what is necessary, why should you do more?
He doesn't owe you anything.
He never promised more than the salary and the benefits.
Clearly he's not trying to do more with you and your talents.
He got what he bargained for, so if he doesn't want to do more with you - you're justified in leaving, right?
Should it matter to you that it will take him some time to replace you?
No, it shouldn't.
So you put your resume back up on monster, keep reading craig's list, and go through your network.
WIA
- college degree
- 2 years experience
- good pay and benefits
- eeoc compliant
Please send your resume
The Interview
I see that you have a 4.0 from a top school. That's great.
3 years experience in our industry. Seems like you had some great technical experience.
So where would you like to be in 5 years?
Management, great! We need young leaders.
You're a great candidate, I'm going to recommend and offer.
The Offer
Above market pay...
401k with matching contributions!
Health insurance!
Company Car!
Sweet.
The first year
It's been tough, but I've met or exceeded all of my goals.
Great, here's your 2.7% raise.
Keep up the good work.
Years 2-3 go by
The work that was interesting is now largely very rote.
The raises he kept pace with inflation, and they kept their end of the deal so far.
The Yearning
But a real jump in salary, responsibility, or prestige isn't coming.
The company has made you a cog in their machine. Barring anything happening to the company or the economy, you'll probably be here until you're ready to retire.
It's just that you'll be doing the same thing.
Maybe you might train some interns to do what you do, but that's really the end all be all of your job.
Someone needs to die in essence for you to move up.
But shouldn't you be satisfied? A bunch of people don't have jobs, those that do, don't have one as good as you.
Yet a handful of people, with your exact background and worse have better jobs.
Dare you aspire?
Is it okay to ask for more?
Is it okay to want more for your life's work than this job?
What do you think of the person who hired you?
What do you think of the person you work under?
He must hope that you're happy with your lot in life.
That's why he chose you.
You were perfectly okay with doing what is necessary, why should you do more?
He doesn't owe you anything.
He never promised more than the salary and the benefits.
Clearly he's not trying to do more with you and your talents.
He got what he bargained for, so if he doesn't want to do more with you - you're justified in leaving, right?
Should it matter to you that it will take him some time to replace you?
No, it shouldn't.
So you put your resume back up on monster, keep reading craig's list, and go through your network.
WIA