Owen Gregorian

It's nothing like today.

At least in my industry, it would be going up maybe even more than 10% a year.

Just new college grads every year would be making a lot more than the prior year.

And even internally, they would be giving out typically 10% raises to the people at my company.

So that's kind of what you came to expect is every year I'm going to be making 10 percent more than I was last year.

And maybe every few years I get promoted.

But really, it was still probably a 10 percent or so raise every year.

And that's just how they did it.

And but the problem was the market was going faster than that.

Like it might have been going up 15 or 20 percent a year.

And they didn't do the they didn't do.

The internal raises as quickly.

And so I eventually realized, hey, I'm not making what I should be making here.

And I started calling back headhunters that were leaving voicemails for me.

And I got an offer from another company just like mine.

And they said they'd give me a 40% raise just to come over.

So I did that.

um but i even then i was like well i want to finish off my project and i offered that to my old company and they initially said oh yeah that's great thank you so much for doing that because it'll take us a while to find somebody to fill your slot and then they panicked every day the time frame got shorter uh until they just told me to pack my stuff i think it was maybe three days later they just said pack your stuff you're done

So I thought that was kind of unprofessional, but that's their end of it.

They were looking out for their interests and I was looking out for mine.