This past Friday I resigned my position of Senior Aerospace Engineer after not yet two years with my present employer, which I don't feel like naming right now. The work that I had done there was among the neatest work I've ever done. Not everyone out there gets to work on projects for manned spaceflight, and it was the second such occasion that I've gotten to do that in my career. My original intent was to stay there until retirement, but I began rethinking that last summer.
I didn't specify in my resignation letter the reason why I was going, aside from the generic statement that another firm had made me an offer I couldn't refuse. To be honest, I have been feeling that my compensation wasn't meeting what the marketplace elsewhere was offering, and I learned a few weeks ago that I was right on that count. I can't say no to a 15% increase, especially with what inflation has been doing for the past six months. There were also some other issues coming into play which I won't get into. There are no issues with my current assignment and I really enjoy working with the other team members.
There were two other resignations this past week that I know about, and we've been losing engineers at almost the rate we are bringing new ones in. I can't claim to know what their issues are. One leaving joined a few months after I did while the other has been with us for........three weeks? Four?
I didn't really think that my life would be taking this kind of direction at this time, but in my particular instance I feel that this change is necessary, and I'm at peace about it.
