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Staying put

Not switching jobs, fields or cities, so skills and trust keep compounding

The decision not to move, on the grounds that reputation, relationships and pattern recognition compound, and every switch resets the clock on all three. Colleagues extend trust slowly, mostly by watching how someone handles one situation after another, which is why the best work often arrives years into a job rather than in year one. There is an obvious counterweight. Bad jobs exist, and staying in one is expensive. People who argue for it call it advice that is right about half the time, and unusually valuable when it is.

Who backs it

Sorted by strength of stance

  • Morgan HouselRecommends

    Writer · The Psychology of Money

    Trust and a professional network compound the way any other asset does, and every job switch resets the clock on both. He rates the advice as good maybe a third of the time when you are young and half the time later. When it is right, he says, it is staggeringly right. And if you are going to quit, he adds, quit early.

    Source: Collaborative Fund: Staying Put

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