re: Tough career decision

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The cons are no benefits, newish company, a lot of uncertainty. Pros are a ton of opportunity for future growth, the chance to have a lot of effect on the company, and it's a majority work from home position. Starting pay would be basically the same. I enjoy what I do now and like the people I work with but the challenge of helping build a business sounds very intriguing to me. I like the owner well and we seem to have similar views and thought processes about the future direction of the company.

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I was in a steady enjoyable job with about 2k employees when an opportunity with a very small company.

Tiny raise at the time but is great now.

Money aside, working for a small company and being an integral part of all the business is so much more rewarding than being a replaceable cog in the machine.

There’s stress to building a small business especially when times are lean but being a part of a team that can be agile and doesn’t have a bloated bureaucracy has been incredibly rewarding.


If I died at my last job, they’d pass a card around to sign and that would be the end of it. The job would be posted before I was in the ground. If I died at this company I know my boss would take care of my family.

It worked out for me but everybody and every job is different.