Why you should never settle for less

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Why you should never settle for less

I do have to confess this one, I did make that mistake in my early career when first landing a job after graduation. 

I have moved to another country directly after graduation and was looking forward to landing a job and starting my career. I didn’t have Mobile Resume free CV maker back then, rather I was left to go through so many websites in order to figure out how to make a CV and what to put it in and then started the journey of figuring out how to get in touch with recruiters or businesses directly. Having almost zero experience in all that; however, I did somehow land a few interviews and attended some of them and apologized to the others. 

My first mistake was I decided to join a company just because the manager seemed like a decent person and willing to give a fresh graduate a chance not to mention he did see my potential. He did briefly bring up the salary, but nothing was confirmed. A few days later, I get a call from the HR and was informed that the job is mine with a much lower salary than what was expected, obviously he knew what he was doing, knowing that I am new in the country and I don’t know what the salaries are like, so long story short I made a decision to settle for what is offered under the impression that I was already getting a high salary and I will get an increase on a yearly basis. 

Once I signed the dotted line, everything after that was a nightmare. Apparently, I had to learn the hard way that if it was only spoken and not mentioned in writing it has zero value, so all those promises of salary increase and professional development went straight out of the window. 

What made things worse, was the manager left after six months of me joining, so you can imagine things not working well for me especially that I couldn’t get out of the two-year contract at that time.
The reason why I am sharing this experience is to shed light on the importance of not settling for less than your worth. Even when you are desperate for a job, bills are pilling up and barely can afford anything, the thing is you will eventually figure things out, but being in a situation like mine where I had to wait for almost two years, knowing that I settled for being an underpaid employee was a very agonizing period of my life. 

However, I did apply that same experience to every aspect of my life is to never settle unless it is 100% up to my liking as the last thing I would want to go through is another experience like the above. Quick fixes are never a solution as it will always lead to more complications.

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