For me, moving around was probably good for my skills, experience, responsibilities, and my yearly paycheck. However, it probably was not good for my net worth….
The red herring for me has always been the stock option/stock grant….WRTO stock options/stock, I was always at the right place.. Just at the wrong time…In hindsight, if my timing wasn’t off and I left when the job got stale or when there was limited growth potential or if I was in danger of getting laidoff …and just held on longer to fully vest, no matter how shitty the job was, I don’t know. …I probably wouldn’t have thrown about $5million of stock options/RSU stock grants into the trash. Although in lieu of those stable companies, I did have a few that eventually were either acquired or IPOed, it probably was not quite as good as probably if I was able to fully vest at those other places I was at.
Oops. Oh well….I never need to buy a lotto ticket, because I already had a fair share of them, lol….If it wasn’t for some of those other IPO’s/acquisitions people like sdrealtor convincing me to buy short sales when they were available back then, I probably would be still crying over spilled milk….lol. Somehow though, I didn’t really want to pull cables out of cellular infrastructure equipment the rest of my life. Though, some of my peers who have done that, seemed to have done financially well too…lol. These days, I guess some companies no longer give out meaningful stock/options grant, so if that’s the case, it’s an even easier decision if you aren’t getting the experience/pay/role you want.
