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True Rick, and that's where the statement that increasing ones "stock" in a company comes into play. If I don't plan to put into a company and only take away from it with a plan to leave after a certain date...I would be jobless right now. I would like to think that I bring something to a company when they hire me. I give what I know to keep myself in a job and at the same time I should be learning something. There should be mutual increasing of "stock."
At some point when I am no longer growing nor challenged, am I adding anything to the company? Is the company putting any value in me? At that point the company and I have to rethink my position in the company. Hopefully, in that situation, the company is no longer growing or I'm no longer growing. That's a bad situation. If the company is no longer growing and what I can do is not helping, it's time for me to leave. If the company is prospering and I'm not changing to meet new challenges, it's time for the company to cut me. When growth is mutual...times are good, anyone who doesn't feel that the job is the right job to stay in..SHOULD leave. It might have seemed that I was advocating job hoping, but not so...it's a little deeper than that. It is important to not be blindly loyal to a company...even the best manager has to cover his own arse when the time comes...doesn't matter if he eats at your house every weekend..his family is more important top him than your family..
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