* 2022: NO salary increase. ❌ * 2023: NO salary increase. ❌ * 2024: NO salary increase. ❌ * 2025: NO salary increase. ❌ Until the inevitable announcement arrives: "I quit. I was offered 80% more... and homeoffice work." The boss tries to react: "We'll match the offer, please stay." But it's already too late. The talent that isn't valued leaves. And rightly so. When you work on your positioning, you don't need to ask for raises: they are offered to you. Because you stop depending on the "good boss" or the fair company. And you begin to build a career where you decide: * 🙌 How much you are worth. * 🙌 Where you fit in. * 🙌 What conditions you accept. You are not the property of a company; you are a brilliant professional, you just need to make yourself visible to the labor market.
Hello When you write: "2022: NO salary increase … 2025: NO salary increase" Do you mean the company never proactively adjusted your salary, or that you actually asked for raises and they said no? In tech it’s an open secret that most salary jumps come from changing companies, not from waiting 3–4 years for the same employer to “wake up”. And it’s not personal: companies optimize for profitability, manage tons of people, and they’ll never proactively say “hey, we’re underpaying you”. You did what a professional should do when the market values them more, good move, congrats.
1. The message is correct… but the framing is self-aggrandizing. Everything you say about undervalued talent leaving is true. But the way you phrase it — “you are a brilliant professional,” “when you work on your positioning,” “you decide how much you’re worth” — carries a tone of self-promotion disguised as advice. It’s motivational, yes, but also crafted to elevate yourself as someone who “gets it.” 2. It’s very “LinkedIn hero narrative.” The structure is classic: “I suffered… but then I became powerful.” “Everyone undervalued me… but now they chase me.” “You too can be like me if you do X.” This style often triggers discomfort because it implicitly compares the reader to the writer. That’s the post’s subtext. 3. It signals high self-esteem bordering on performative. You are projecting confidence, but in a way that feels curated rather than natural. 4. It ignores structural realities. You frame everything as individual empowerment: “Position yourself.” “You decide your worth.” But real life is not only about positioning — it’s about markets, downturns, salaries frozen by corporate policy, economic cycles, and systemic constraints. My intuition may be reacting to the lack of humility and lack of context, not to your success.