[UncleMeat]

A problem is that people are often optimizing to compensation literally right now. This leads to the following common scenario on blind or other similar communities:

Person 1. "I'm a junior engineer and two senior engineers just left my team, now I'm being asked to do do a bunch of work that they used to handle."

Person 2. "If they aren't bumping your pay immediately you should leave. Never do senior work for junior pay."

Now this person is missing out on a huge opportunity to get a ton of experience and prove themselves to be invaluable.

[krisoft]

> Now this person is missing out on a huge opportunity to get a ton of experience and prove themselves to be invaluable.

I pay my mortage with opportunities, exposure and experience too.

[UncleMeat]

I'm not saying work for nothing. I'm saying that immediately fleeing every time you are asked to stretch because it isn't in your current job role is going to limit your career growth rather than enable it.

[krisoft]

Obviously don’t flee. Negotiate a rise. And if they don’t take you seriously get a better job, because they don’t appreciate you at your current place.

[UncleMeat]

But if you look at popular advice on blind, cscareerquestions, or from various youtube influencers they'll absolutely tell you to leave immediately.