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- Apr 17, 2018
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After several experiences of crushed expectations, I changed my own rule in life to evaluate a job by what it definitely offers right now, not by what seems like the potential of some better future.
I'll give you my thoughts from that point of view.
Current job:
New job:
My ultimate, top level goal is to have my own business and be out of the corporate world.
I'll give you my thoughts from that point of view.
Current job:
- Report to a forgetful jerk who everyone hates, but he likes you, in a politics-infested environment.
- Pay is down for now.
- Company is well funded and might do very well with the new products currently under development.
- WORK FROM HOME WITH A LIGHT AND FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE.
- Potential worst case scenario: as current competitors smash the company's current product line, your boss is forced out by the circling sharks, and as you're considered his golden boy, you're taken down as collateral damage.
- Potential best case scenario: new product is a giant hit and you personally sell a zillion of them, mostly from home.
- Most likely scenario: company muddles along until the new product line has its chance in the marketplace.
New job:
- Boss is a successful business builder, but would you realistically be able to get mentoring from him, or look closely at what he does? Or would your role be to get your own work done, without much more insight into his work than if you didn't also work there?
- You'd have to be present onsite, plus a commute you know you won't like. How much time and energy would you realistically have left over to try to do your own thing?
- You'd be a busy, hectic multitasker helping the CEO build his own vision. Is this the kind of position you could really leave behind you at 5 pm? Or would stay late for meetings, and have to catch up on paperwork and technology from home in the evenings? How much would you definitely get paid for helping with the CEO's vision, compared to the potential to you of your own Fastlane where you have 100% equity and control of smaller pie?
- Technology is "a nice to have," so who knows if the bonus and equity will be worth anything in a few years? Have you seen the marketing plan?
- Potential worst case scenario: After you run around like the headless chicken for a while, the product line's irrelevant me-too status sends the company into a financial tailspin that includes cutting your job.
- Potential best case scenario: You're way to busy to do anything on your own venture, but your help is so crucial to the ceo's next massive success, that you walk way with a giant payday in the IPO within a few years.
- Most likely scenario: You are busy and hectic at a job that pays well, and after a few years have nothing to show for it beyond a nice line on your resume.