I worked in a small company ever since graduating college 3 years ago and never had a problem at work until the last few months. Inflation kept going up and almost none of us received raises even though we were underpaid to begin with. I wouldn’t have minded it much, but many of my coworkers left and the new hires were very subpar from crap colleges. Meaning they were often lazy, slow at grasping new concepts and I had to take on more and more responsibilities because of that.
I never thought I could make that much more, but I sent out my resume to one company a month ago and a few interviews later I was offered a 50% increase in pay. So gave my notice today.
The CEO was furious saying I was making a big mistake and that I was going to miss working for him. I can understand why he is furious since no one else knows the systems in our company as well as I do and I do the work of at least 3 workers now, fixing everything that needs maintaining while most of the new coworkers do almost nothing . It’s not because they are new. when we used to hire from better colleges they’d be much more effective more quickly. The company is just too cheap to hire better workers.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that even if you think you can’t do better than your job, you might be surprised . I’m still kicking myself for not applying anywhere else in the last 3 years because I wasn’t confident enough.