I've been saying this for a long time now. I've been in the workforce for something like 12 years now, have a good job, make 6 figures, all that good stuff. I honestly cannot recall using a single thing I learned in college in my career. Everything I know came from learning on the job and building experience.
In any case, the whole corporate world is complete garbage. Companies will gladly overpay for new hires just because it's the prevailing practice. I understand if you're trying to lure away a top hot shot executive from another company, but when it's just a staff person, the practice makes no sense. You would think that companies would pay people the same as they're making now at best and force them to prove their worth before giving them anything more... but nope. Then companies fill themselves with job hoppers who have no loyalty except to that 20% salary bump and have no long term or high level experience anywhere.
I've been saying this for a long time now. I've been in the workforce for something like 12 years now, have a good job, make 6 figures, all that good stuff. I honestly cannot recall using a single thing I learned in college in my career. Everything I know came from learning on the job and building experience.
In any case, the whole corporate world is complete garbage. Companies will gladly overpay for new hires just because it's the prevailing practice. I understand if you're trying to lure away a top hot shot executive from another company, but when it's just a staff person, the practice makes no sense. You would think that companies would pay people the same as they're making now at best and force them to prove their worth before giving them anything more... but nope. Then companies fill themselves with job hoppers who have no loyalty except to that 20% salary bump and have no long term or high level experience anywhere.