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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Just after age 30 I was promoted to a supervisor, then at age 36 to manager. At age 40 I quit and started a business which I ran for 16 years. Initially, that was a big decrease in pay, but after 2 years I was making more than I had been working. Then in 2009 I lost too much business to continue and got a new job. Since then two promotions, in 2011 and 2013. Now making more than the best years of the business.
I had a career change and started in my current career in my early 30s and work for a state that doesn't give raises.
Job #2 was a 32% raise that I took because job #1 wouldn't promote me.
I went back to job #1 when a different location opened up with a 2.8% raise over job #2 and only gotten a 1.8% raise from that around 2.5 years ago. I'm now looking again since it doesn't seem like any raises are forthcoming. I am now closing in on 40.
Five job changes since my 30's (20 years) - Three for salary/benefit increases, two for lower salary but better jobs.
And this is why "salary increase" is not the the only criterion that should be considered for a job change.
When I retired from the military, a mentor advised me: Choose one of three: The work, the money, the location. Make your choice of which is most important to you and accept whatever is necessary or possible of the other two to make your choice work.
That choice might change over time. As I near retirement, the location of my last years of work became most important.
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