Thinking about what I just wrote more, everybody won in that situation:
– The company I liked obviously didn’t need me in the period I was gone, or they would have given their folks raises during that period…they probably had too many folks anyway.
– When I came back, I had experience from outside their walls that I could apply to their problems.
– When I came back, they were obviously needing help and that’s why they were willing to give me a generous raise…probably well above those folks who had stayed.
– I was able to keep my salary rising at a much greater rate than had I stayed.
Win win!
As one of my astute bosses once said as he handed me a great raise, I bet you don’t go home and create these software widgets for fun in your spare time…you do it for the money. How right he was.
