(Longtime member, first post)
I am hoping to get some advice from the community to a bit of an unsettling situation I find myself in.
I have been working at my current place of employment for just over a year now and it?s been quite a rollercoaster ride to say the least. Myself, like others that were here from the start, helped build the company (literally!) from the ground up and ensured a successful startup date. For the better half of the year I put my family aside, dedicated 110%, worked 14-16 sometimes 18 hour days, nights and weekends, and from what I recently found out, it might all have been for a 2-3 % salary increase.
I hate to make it sound like it is all about the $, because this has been a learning experience that no classroom or course could have provided, but at the same time I have a family to support and bills to pay. Aside from that I have gone from a mid-level position to overseeing half the IT department, something I agreed to, but was not in the original job description. Part of me feels taken advantage of, not sure why, just do…
The dilemma I have is this.
Should I stick it out and grow with the company, or take what I have learned and look elsewhere? As mentioned above, it?s a great place to work, but times are tough and that alone isn?t going to pay the bills.
