When planning your next move do you optimize for title pay or skills? I could take a role with a higher title and a 20K bump but the work would be narrower. Staying would mean better skills but no comp change this year. How do you choose?

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For me, it's all about the money. I'll go with whatever position and title pays me the best. Titles vary so much from organization to organization that they're basically meaningless anyway, but money is a resource that is way more valuable than some fancy words.

Basically always pay, with the only exception being if one job would make me significantly happier over the other. Titles are falsely inflated all of the time and don't do a lot to help with job searching anymore. Being able to learn new skills is great, but times are changing fast and they may be worthless in the near future. What matters most to me is maximizing my salary in the present so that I have enough money in the bank to survive a long layoff.

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