Why do so many Tunisian Redditors expect to be making 5000+ TND within a few years?
I genuinely don't understand where this expectation comes from.
If your first job in Tunisia pays you around 1000~1200 TND, why do you expect to be making 5000+ after only a few years? For the majority of jobs here, salaries simply don't grow that way. A lot of positions eventually cap somewhere around 2000~2500 TND, unless you move into a highly specialized field, a multinational company, or work remotely for a foreign employer.
I've seen people with 5 years of experience feeling completely disappointed because they're making 1900~2000 TND. Like... where did you think you were supposed to be at that point?
We're in Tunisia, not Europe or the US. You can't automatically apply their salary expectations to the tunisian job market.
If you start at 1000 TND, getting to 1800~2000 after 5 to 7 years is not necessarily some massive failure. The bigger question is whether you're in an industry where salaries actually have room to grow.
So where exactly did this idea that everyone should be making 5000+ TND after a few years come from?