I think you are wrong about the confidence of a monotonically increasing salary across your career and lifespan (at least in terms of purchasing power)
I think you are right that certain things cluster together: Jobs where you are treated like crap pay you like crap, jobs where you are paid in riches treat you like a princess. Exceptions apply.
Fair point, however there is so, so much that is ambiguous and indeterminate. Some jobs, let's say line-chef or administrative assistant where roles are very clear and variance between a individuals is relatively low, often do have salaries or wages stated up front. In the line of work I'm familiar with, hiring developers is Pandora's Box - you have absolutely no idea what it's going to be like a year down the road. I've worked at startups, big tech companies, research labs - at absolutely none of those places did the work I end up doing match the specific requisition I had applied to. Furthermore, in almost all cases each staff member has an extremely unique specialty that do drastically different work - despite having the same job title and classification.
Edit: Also, when a company does not disclose the salary range for the position it actually provides a very useful data point., You can pretty much be sure it's at most average -- but probably less-than-competetive -- market rates. The major and popular tech companies don't need to do this because they have a reputation, but the smaller companies can either show they too are competitive (by publishing above-market rates) or show they do not offer competitive salary (by not publishing their salary target).
Probably because they were hired after you. Normally newer hires have much higher salaries than old timers for equivalent role/experience, it's like that everywhere
I completely agree. Just let the market be. Trying to optimize it will just create other unforeseen consequences.
A normal part of an interview process is discussing salary, and if they won't give an answer then you know they are not trying to be competitive and it's not worth continuing the process.
I'm of relatively strong opinion.. but why just not have faces-in-circles anywhere? It would feel so liberating from all the social network gimmicks out there. To me it would then feel so real and down for business, rather than have a whole status/appearance signaling sub game.
Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch.
I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways to do it that does not involve people's pictures.
Edit: Wow this got a lot of upvotes. So, I'll continue for a sec: There is so, so much conscious and unconscious judgment and game playing with pictures, I don't even know where to start. Let's leave this to be simple, clean and beautiful without the faces.
I was on a low-carb diet for a while. Loved it. Felt great. Was totally fit. All my digestive problems cleared up. I would never get "hangry". By every single subjective measure my quality of life and sense of well-being improved.
Then I got my cholesterol checked during a routine blood work and it was through the roof. WTF? Anyone know better than me about this?
I started to agree with you, but this took a different direction.
In general, it's smart, informed work that matters. Not grinding yourself down hard work. I feel Ive developed enough good intuition and judgment over the years that I'm capable of making well informed, strategic input to my organization that is infinitely more valuable than grinding away in PRs or tickets all day. I feel successful, it benefits my company far more than me just grinding away on "work", and I have balance and satisfaction from my work.
I think you are right that certain things cluster together: Jobs where you are treated like crap pay you like crap, jobs where you are paid in riches treat you like a princess. Exceptions apply.