Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
Kind of in a similar bind.<p>I work for a big company, and am paid decently well. I&#x27;m respected, but I have impostor syndrome. I really am doing nothing other than basic business logic coding. We have good tests, but no unit tests. We&#x27;re not doing what I would consider as optimal programming practices, and I have not been able to convince them to change.<p>Yet when I look around in my city for jobs, most are lower paid than I am. Do I take the lower pay temporarily? I worry if I stay in my current job then in another 5 years, if I lose my job, no one will hire me.<p>I&#x27;ve kind of decided to make a goal for this year: Gain enough influence in my role to change some of the mindsets (e.g. convince them to introduce unit tests). If I succeed, I will have learned valuable influencing skills. If I don&#x27;t, I should just find another job.