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.
People on record
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- 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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