I got a job offer some years back.
250k base, partner track.
4 years to partner.
Partners make >$600.
3 years into what would have been my partner track, they sold to an AMC, got >$2M paydays and left the non partners with garbage AMC offers.
I think I might have gone postal after taking a big pay cut to get into this sweet PP partnership, losing money selling 2 houses, and getting a -$600k+ Crap sandwich instead of a partner offer.
Interestingly one of the partners asked me the details of my job at the time and said he’d stay if he were me. I wonder if they knew they were considering selling out and that I’d never be able to earn it back? The grass isn’t always greener and they definitely worked a whole lot more than me for the $$. Obviously there were other advantages to PP though.
The other garbage job I never followed up on for in in person interview was Kaiser SoCal. They wanted to bring me in as a per diem guy for some kind of probation like period before they offered me an actual job. They couldn’t even explain how much I’d be making year 1, 2, 10. It was crazy. I asked if many experienced, double boarded applicants from 5 star training programs, with chief/leadership roles, early promotion, no lawsuits/red flags, etc. relocate their families for a per diem job and no guarantee of a real job or an understanding of potential income. That didn’t go over well. Who takes that job? Maybe if I was already living there? WTF?