Honest question: at what point do you stop waiting for the market to recover and just make a move anyway?
I keep hearing "the market is bad right now, just wait it out." And maybe that's true. But I've been watching people say that for two years and I'm not sure the signal ever gets clean enough to feel like a green light.
For people who made a move switched countries, changed stacks, took a pay cut for a better environment, left a stable role for something riskier how did you know when to stop waiting?
And for people still waiting: what's the actual condition you're waiting for? A specific number of job postings? A particular salary benchmark? Or are you mostly just hoping something changes and you'll feel it?
Genuinely curious whether anyone has a framework for this or if it's mostly gut feeling dressed up as strategy.
u/ExpensiveStable4930 — 6 days ago