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It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “A few weeks ago I left a place where I had worked for almost nine years. I had been keeping my eye on the market in my niche field for a while, but the pay and benefits were just so good that I couldn’t really wrap my head around […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I have been a reader of your site since 2009, and I finally put your advice about negotiating salary to work! I received an offer for a position at a base salary that I would have absolutely accepted at face value, but I gave myself a moment to ask, […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I’ve been at my current job for two full years and had my annual review recently. I wasn’t nervous for it — I get regular feedback so I went into it already knowing where I stood. But we all fill out our own yearly surveys about our jobs as […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I’ve worked for a small company for the last 8 years. The work has grown and the company goals have changed, and after some upheaval and layoffs last summer I realized that I was actually no longer enjoying myself at a company I’d been so deeply committed to that […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I wrote to you a while back after a vague but negative performance review at a major health care organization, asking if my boss was trying to get me to quit. I learned that she was just not a good manager or a good person, and that the rest […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I work in a niche position for a large government agency that has a central headquarters and various offices around the world. When I moved to my current office location 4 years ago, my section had a unique mission to the organization and a large staff who supported that […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “After over a decade at a tiny company where I basically ran and WAS 4 different departments, I was completely frazzled by all of the shifting priorities and running around trying to keep up with my core tasks and any other tasks put on me by the company leaders. […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “For the past few years I’d been at a job that, for the most part, was fine. It was easy and low-stress and I had a great relationship with my direct manager, but the pandemic definitely brought out the ugliness in upper management. While all my friends’ organizations jumped […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “Add me to the growing list of readers who never thought they would be a part of the Friday Good News! I worked at a job for twenty years, moving my way up from entry-level to full-time staff member. I loved the majority of people I worked with, even […]

It’s your Friday good news! 1.  “I was working as a data analyst job for a few years before the pandemic hit. It was my first “real job” and I thought it was great at first, but I slowly realized that I was not in a good long-term place. It was (is) a small company. […]