How do you stay motivated when you know that you have no future at your current firm?

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Stay motivated by building your skill set so you can take it to your next, better role. And for the $$

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Find your purpose for work. If you see no purpose in your job you won’t feel motived regardless of employer, job, or pay. Then test the market to see if you’re as good or marketable as you believe you are. If you could get $100k raise it will tell you something. If you can’t find a job it will tell your something. Likely neither extreme but it will frame your perspective. I’ve found the only job people complain about, is the one they have....

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Do you give people light or do you just make candles? Are you a brick layer or a cathedral builder? Are you a janitor at NASA or are you helping with space exploration? The firm and your team is doing a lot of great things and you’re a part of it. We all lay brick and make candles, but if that’s all it means to us it’s hard to see it has value. Finding the meaning behind your work and connecting to it is helpful.

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Interview like crazy. Make job search your side gig. When you start getting interviews, don't stop and keeping applying. So you have multiple options to exit.

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Always have 2-3 exits just in case.

Firms like to try to make people feel bad and call this "millennial disloyalty" or "extortion".

Keep in mind we also have no trouble laying people off when it suits our situation.

If you keep an exit or two in your back pocket and a something soft to land on in your bank account you inadvertently become the type to have a future if you want one.

It's always been easiest to manage upwards for the guy who puts himself in the "fuck you" position.

Leadership can smell your fear and lack of confidence...good way for them to discount your accomplishments.

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OP, haha, makes complete sense.

Mostly $, and goals outside work

Except my firm will also likely have no raises next year. And even if I get one I’ll still be underpaid relative to peers. And I’m not bonus eligible. It’s one thing to have 0 raise/bonus if you’re being paid fairly currently, but I’m stuck in a bad situation for another year with this. I’m taking all the trainings I can to up my transferable skills though.

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How do you know you have no future at your current firm?

Yeah, definitely

Focus on your personal brand - doesn’t matter if you’re not going to stay at the firm - your reputation will always follow you. Take pride in everything that you do.

PWC1, fair enough. If you’re speaking to someone who wants to feel like what they’re doing at a place they want to leave matters, you’re valid in that it has a chance somehow it matters even without promotion (even if in well over 50% of circumstances, it doesn’t matter at all, as evidenced by my own life and many others’ I know).

For sure if you’re at pwc consulting and want to move to Deloitte consulting, or some other move of that nature, there’s a decent chance your rep could affect your chances.

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