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Aaarrgghhhhh... I raise my coffee to you.

I just got a 2.6% increase after two years - despite that I am a one-guy centre of competence. However, they are paying for me to emigrate (shipping + language courses + letter of guarantee for apartment deposit), replacing the inappropriate job-title-suffix 'assistant' with the awesome prefix 'research', and it is an awesome job.

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If you look around you might find you can have all that plus more money. You only live one time, I wouldn't sell myself short if I were you.

well said.

Time != money

Money can be made. Time is much hard to make if at all.

Exactly. We're trading our time for money so the more we make, the less of our time we need to sell (if we're responsible financial planners anyway).

EDIT: Ambiguous wording

Yes - but I am also learning a lot. I don't think I would have ended up knowing the things I know somewhere else. I am pretty good at dead-panning through negotiations :). In two years I will have a full suite of financial modelling code that has been tested on billion dollar products.

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