Never accept a counter-offer
This couldn&#x27;t have come at a better time, as I just navigated this last week. I kind of disagree with most of what the author is saying. Here&#x27;s why.<p>The author posits that you&#x27;ve begun looking for a new job for a reason. There are things that you dislike about your job. That&#x27;s logical, and it&#x27;s the number one reason that I went on a search of my own.<p>The problem is that there&#x27;s always some level of information asymmetry. You know everything you dislike about your current job; you can&#x27;t know what you&#x27;ll dislike about your new job until you begin that role.<p>However, once I was given another &quot;great offer&quot;, it made me realize that part of every job is disliking certain aspects of it. No matter where you are, it&#x27;s impossible to find a role that you like 100% of the time.<p>When I received another job offer, it made me realize that there were a lot of things that I was taking for granted about my current job. And when I notified my current employer that I was leaving, they reminded me of how valued I was with the package that they put together. In fairness, they could&#x27;ve done a better job with this throughout my employment.<p>At the end of the day, the compensation and future commitments (all of which are in writing) made it compelling to me to stay and not risk disliking my next role.<p>Have you ever heard the saying that you should flip a coin to make important decisions, because as soon as the coin is in the air you&#x27;ll know what you want anyway? Well, I went through the coin flip process and realized I had taken a lot of things for granted at my current employer. And that&#x27;s why I stayed.