• Never go back to the old job. All the reasons you left are still there. It's the same arguments for never taking a counter-offer. If all you needed was more money, that can be negotiated. But if you weren't being challenged, or the working conditions were awful, or there were bad people, bad management, sketchy processes, bad feedback loops, all the stuff you hated, it's still there.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

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