Should I keep building my solo practice or take a safe job?
Deciding whether to bet on yourself or take a secure position leaves you weighing the safety of a steady salary against the frustration of being undervalued by corporate owners. When wages lag behind inflation, the pressure to abandon a new practice for guaranteed income makes it difficult to know whether to stay the course or choose the boring safe route.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Choosing between taking a stable corporate job or continuing to grow a startup firmDid this help you?
- 2Staying at the company despite stagnant pay and poor managementDid this help you?
- 3Accepting lower compensation relative to realized billingsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Sooo, my company got purchased by private equity about 15 months ago.”source ↗
“Wages are severely lacking behind inflation.”source ↗
“I feel that I need to go out on my own now, because no matter what whoever owns the company is just going to say you’re not worth it.”source ↗
“Should I do the boring safe thing or continue to bet on myself? Anyone with similar experience?”source ↗
Where this came up
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