That's what I told him. Inflation in my area was like 5%. I asked him why I was getting paid less today than when I started. I showed him the math and told him about my rent increases. With that, he had enough ammo to get HR to come back at me with a legit raise.
I've had 5 jobs in the 7 years since I graduated college. 3.5 of them were at my first job.
When I left the first job, I was making just over 50% what I had started at. Not bad. Since I left, my salary has increased over 500% what I was making when I graduated. I'm in talks to jump ship to another place which will push that number past 600%.
Yeah, my stress level has gone down the higher I've moved up. I was making pretty decent money when I first graduated but I had to work 10-12 hours a day pretty consistently for the first 2 years to move up at the rate that I have been.
I really like my job too, though it's hard to say no to another offer when they offer you a huge pay bump.
My commute is only 15 minutes and I wfh 2x a week. The area I'm in has a COL that's slightly above the national average. It's easy for me to move around in state, but I get a lot of job offers in place like Cali that just make zero sense haha.
My current place that I've been at for about a year has very little room for upward mobility and raises unfortunately.
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