Off topic, but I got offered a promotion. Said promotion requires me to move a couple states away; a few days drive. It will help my career down the long run but requires me to say good bye to friends and family and is last second. Has anyone moved cross country for a job before, and if so, was it worth it in the long run?
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Are you happy where you are to the point of staying? Is the place you're moving to blue?
You're too vague to give any advice.
I want to move up in the company so I can eventually afford a house as the area I am in is getting expensive. Plus, I have been doing the same thing over and over again for years and the area I am in there is very little, if any ability to be promoted with the company I work at. I have looked at getting another job but there isn't a whole lot of high paying jobs out here, plus a lot of local companies are currently on a hiring freeze. I an happy in the area I am in aside from everything having greatly increased in price. The state is red, but an onslaught of people moving has built the area up and greatly increased the price of wverything.
Company loyalty is a meme from a society that has been dead since before I was born. Your goal should be to move up in your career, not your company.
This right here. Even the CEOs know this and hopscotch between companies for their payouts and accolades.
Normally The quickest way to get a payrise is to leave and join another company.
Companies don’t reward loyalty at all.
I have been with my current company 7 years, and in that time I volunteered for every extra duty, I worked overtime, and I covered for other people. I found out last week that the promotion that I interviewed for (to get the pay for the job that I've been doing) went to someone who didn't even put in for the position.
Have loyalty to your family, your friends, and the numbers in your bank account. The company can go fuck itself.
A hard lesson for sure.
Remember, they can ignore your contributions,sacrifice, and reputation. They cannot ignore your skills.
In my case, my director has ignored my skills. Too bad she had her assistant tell me to clean up the document vault. 😇
Is the area moving to blue or a blue state? If so, don't do it. If not, getting new experiences is what life is about.