I posted a few times today. Last one I swear for a bit.
So when I got this job hr began wage negotiations…I had decided I wanted to make as much as I did at my last job, I just wanted out, gave the number and silence. Mind you I knew I had the job already. After a moment I hear “honey we don't pay that low, we start at (several dollars more an hour) and you have experience so it's going to be more….few more minutes I hear how about (a couple more dollars an hour on top of that). With full benefits, of which theirs are amazing, with better hours, etc. It was at that moment I realized how much I've been under valuing myself all this time by quite alot it seems. I'd just assumed going up a dollar an hour or so to each new job was fine.
True irony after the third interview when they started the offer they kept going on about how they don't pay as much as the private sector does but about how great the benefits are…turns out they pay more and have great benefits.