Is it normal to feel guilty for looking at other jobs when you aren't actually miserable? I want to see what else is out there for my career, but every time I open my resume, I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Should I stop feeling guilty?

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No. If anything that is the best time to search because your clear headed and not going to jump into the first thing you see just because you want to get away from the cow dung your rolling around in.

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Not at all. I am actively searching though I very much like my team, the clients I work with and the type of work that I do. Unfortunately, in my experience here, meaningful career growth in the form of salary and title increases is too infrequent and I know I could be making 40% more annually while also enjoying a better work life balance elsewhere. It’s certainly a gamble.

I feel the same, but realistically you're just looking for opportunities to grow, and it's okay to move even if you're enjoying your current role.

I always due. I hate to be complacent. I reach my ceiling in a job (knowledge, expertise or advancement) and I start looking. Salary doesn’t keep me or make me look.

It’s definitely the best time to search because then you aren’t looking from a desperate lens. That’s said, no matter how much your love your job or whether your feel your company is great it is also wise to bear in mind that no company is loyal to their employees every since person is dispensable. If there was ever job cuts or lay offs company will not feel guilty they will put their profit first.

There's absolutely no need to feel guilty. There is no loyalty in tech careers. If your CEO is part of the AI cult, he won't hesitate to replace you with an incompetent clanker. If he's more old-fashioned, there's still nothing to stop him from replacing you with a foreigner who'll take slave wages to do half as good a job as you.

Our goal as workers in the tech sector needs to be to make as much money as it takes to get out of the tech sector and into either retirement or a real job as quickly as possible, before whatever the latest tech-bro fad is hobbles our earning power.

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