I am a second year analyst working at Deloitte. Due to my clearance, companies often reach out for job ops. One offered to take my salary from 75k to 130 (they were not aware of my current salary). My only concern is that it is a smaller company and doesn’t carry the same prestige or name recognition as Deloitte. Would this be “shiny penny syndrome” or short sighted to pursue it? I don’t know what I want to do long term but short term I feel it would be the better option to take the job.

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Do it. The extra $55k a year will soothe any pain you have lol. Don’t even second guess it

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“Prestige” is for getting job offers. You did it!

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I would advise to do the interviews and see how you like it after interviewing. Then see if you get the offer... you’re a ways from that yet. You can always bow out of the interview process if it doesn’t look like a good fit and you can always turn it down if you don’t want the job. I always say, take the interview if you aren’t happy where you are.

I have a clearance too, but the opportunities are slim in Deloitte and elsewhere. I’ve been with D for almost 3 years and only recently found a short term project that uses a high clearance. In Florida, the highest offer I came to was 70k and it was a risk from a shady company. Other better name companies may have ok pay. Hopefully it’s a seasonal thing because I want to use my clearance and excel my skills rather than waste my time and be like an intern.

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