Apples and oranges

Sometimes I end up in career conversations where someone is weighing two vastly different choices. A job at a large company on one side, a very different sounding job at a small startup on the other. It’s hard to have a real conversation about that, because it’s apples and oranges. Comparing apples to other apples is easy. If there are five big companies on the table, we can walk through the pros and cons of each. But when the choice is between two different kinds of fruit, it comes down to which fruit you want. And there definitely isn’t a universally right answer on these. It depends on what fits you at that point in your life. So if you find yourself in that situation, start by being honest with yourself on what you want. The comparison gets much easier after that.

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