How do you get past the feeling of being stagnant in your career growth? Especially when you are at the point of accepting a less senior role than your previous job?

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It is a wide scale of backwards movement in tech right now, or no movement at all which is arguably worse. The way I am looking is something right now is better than nothing, and ideally when/if the market picks up again we can turn it back into progression.

That's a really good perspective, I suppose if we are all in the same boat, no one can really fall behind

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