🇪🇸 Spain · 💼 Career · 20-29
I did not negotiate my first salary
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What happened
I accepted the first offer instantly because I was grateful. Every raise for the next eight years was a percentage of that number, and so was every offer that followed.
Time lost
8 years
Emotional cost
Frustrating
What I learned
Your first salary is the base of every number that comes after it. One uncomfortable conversation compounds for a decade.
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