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> I know you caveated that with the "if you can" but I'd say the vast majority of people can't

Most people have a lot more agency than they give themselves credit for. It just doesn’t hurt enough yet to face the cost of making a change.

What’s really the worst that’s gonna happen? You have to do some interviewing while putting in the bear minimum at current job? Oh no.

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There's more to life than a job as well. I've stayed at a job for the comfort of not needing to add to my or my families plate while my wife was in grad school. It was absolutely the right choice.

I've also had a job that I left because I wasn't enjoying because of a lack of challenge and lack of management backing for the projects I was working on.

Life isn't purely black and white and my reasoning is pretty simplistic. There are vastly more complex situations than just my wife went to grad school.

Exactly. All of those are choices you have the agency to make. There is no “can’t” unless you are literally a slave (and even then)

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