Amy Tam on X: "The Cost of Staying" / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post Tasha @TashaPais Article See new posts Conversation Amy Tam @amytam01 The Cost of Staying 110 544 4.6K 1.1M Every technical person I know is doing the same math right now. They won’t call it that. They’ll say they’re “exploring options” or “thinking about what’s next.” But underneath it’s the same calculation: how much is it costing me to stay where I am? Not in dollars. In time. There’s a feeling in the air that the window for making the right move is shrinking, that every quarter you spend in the wrong seat, the gap between you and the people who moved earlier gets harder to close. A year ago, career decisions in tech felt reversible. Take the wrong job, course correct in eighteen months. That assumption is breaking down. The divergence between people who repositioned early and people who are still weighing their opti

Every technical person I know is doing the same math right now. They won’t call it that. They’ll say they’re “exploring options” or “thinking about what’s next.” But underneath it’s the same calculation: how much is it costing me to stay where I am? Not in dollars. In time. There’s a feeling in the air that the window for making the right move is shrinking, that every quarter you spend in the wrong seat, the gap between you and the people who moved earlier gets harder to close. A year ago, career decisions in tech felt reversible. Take the wrong job, course correct in eighteen months. That…

Amy Tam on X: "The Cost of Staying" / X

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