Despite COVID, this turned out to be a good year for jobs in my field and I decided to apply to a few companies. I was fortunate to get offers from all of them, and decided (to myself) to take the top position which had the best offer and was the best fit for my career. My current advisor (I'm a postdoc) suggested negotiating on starting salary but said the offer was really good. I grew up poor so the numbers to me were already ridiculously high. I asked HR about potentially increasing the base salary but they told me that it was already at the high end for the role and location. They offered to go back to "business" to see what they could change in the rest of the offer, but I was fine with everything else so I just accepted it as is.
I know in hindsight that I should've let them discuss it, but I'm really happy with the offer (it would allow me to be completely debt free in about 2 years). Is it generally OK to just accept a really good offer? A lot of the forums I've read talk about negotiation, but if you have certain life goals and the offer allows that, isn't that good enough?
Submitted September 07, 2020 at 02:13PM by kiwijohn340 https://ift.tt/330UDao
