I swear - the corporate world gets ahold of you and it's like a death trap! It's all a money game and you gotta know how to play or else you will lose. Not just money though, politics too. I've never liked politics, but I do like to have money - which is where the conflict of interest comes into play; do I go for the promotion and act like I care to get more money - or do I stay where I am and continue to walk the original path I laid out for myself when I started here?
When I worked out the calcuations I think I started drooling at the thought of getting a raise - but when I thought about what baggage comes along with it, I have to step back and try to see the whole picture. What is the best move for my "career"? And I say "carrer" because it's really a job to me - not a career, only because I can't see myself doing this long term. It's all for the love of the dough right? Ugh. And once you get further up the corporate ladder, it's a long hard fall back down to what I like to call the "real" world. It gets so much harder to make a career change once you set up a particular lifestyle for yourself which is based on that good ole' corpoate salary. Unless you manage to save up enough cushion funds to support if you take a pay cut from a career change, you are stuck!
What's a girl to do?
4 comments:
yeah that can be a tough choice to make. I mean noty for me I'd go for the money. I"m just saying a sista needs her dough. Not if it took me away from my little one so I guess understand. Just think about and pray about and the decision will be clear. Happy V-Day friend! See you tomorrow!
i don't know but i love that picture. i can never find black people!!
good luck in making that life-altering difficult decision.
Good luck! Thats all
It's a tough decision...sometimes staying where you are and building a knowledge base will eventually lead to promotions & more recognition but definitely bouncing around to the bigger & better opportunities gets you the financial rewards more quickly. Just try to figure out what you want to do career-wise minus the money factor. Yes we work to make money but you're the one that will have to wake up every morning & go to that job so you better like it, at least :)
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