Do you think it's important when you are young to work for the highest salary possible?

[PandaBear]

Depends on you. I personally like to take jobs that have a consistent path of growth (the field, not the company as those hardly survive for long).

My first job is 54k, then 36k (dot com bust), then 55k (pay raise), then 63k (new job), then 80k. All in the field of firmware.

It is a lot of stress on the 36k job, and work a lot harder there than the 63k one, but what I learn that is what landed me eventually in the 63k and 80k one. Since you said your job is very laid back, I suggest you go for something more challenging and build up your skill/confidence/connection/reputation/etc.

Or go back to school part time for a graduate degree, in a few years every job will pretty much require or prefer a master or PhD.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: PandaBear
Depends on you. I personally like to take jobs that have a consistent path of growth (the field, not the company as those hardly survive for long).

My first job is 54k, then 36k (dot com bust), then 55k (pay raise), then 63k (new job), then 80k. All in the field of firmware.

It is a lot of stress on the 36k job, and work a lot harder there than the 63k one, but what I learn that is what landed me eventually in the 63k and 80k one. Since you said your job is very laid back, I suggest you go for something more challenging and build up your skill/confidence/connection/reputation/etc.

Or go back to school part time for a graduate degree, in a few years every job will pretty much require or prefer a master or PhD.

Yeah, right.

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: PandaBear
Depends on you. I personally like to take jobs that have a consistent path of growth (the field, not the company as those hardly survive for long).

My first job is 54k, then 36k (dot com bust), then 55k (pay raise), then 63k (new job), then 80k. All in the field of firmware.

It is a lot of stress on the 36k job, and work a lot harder there than the 63k one, but what I learn that is what landed me eventually in the 63k and 80k one. Since you said your job is very laid back, I suggest you go for something more challenging and build up your skill/confidence/connection/reputation/etc.

Or go back to school part time for a graduate degree, in a few years every job will pretty much require or prefer a master or PhD.

Yeah, right.

in the IT/IS field, Master or Phd doesn't mean squat

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: PandaBear
Depends on you. I personally like to take jobs that have a consistent path of growth (the field, not the company as those hardly survive for long).

My first job is 54k, then 36k (dot com bust), then 55k (pay raise), then 63k (new job), then 80k. All in the field of firmware.

It is a lot of stress on the 36k job, and work a lot harder there than the 63k one, but what I learn that is what landed me eventually in the 63k and 80k one. Since you said your job is very laid back, I suggest you go for something more challenging and build up your skill/confidence/connection/reputation/etc.

Or go back to school part time for a graduate degree, in a few years every job will pretty much require or prefer a master or PhD.

i guess i should clarify that. it's laid back between projects and stuff. it takes a while to hear back from my manager sometimes so i have a lot of downtime sometimes. however when i am actually coding and working on my project, it's definitely not that big on downtime 🙂