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Career decisions

Quit, negotiate, or stay — career dilemmas where ambition and duty pull against each other, scored the Gita's way.

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The raise you'd earn by threatening to leave

A composite career dilemma: a competent, underpaid engineer plans to fake an outside offer to force a raise. Four lenses split hard on whether that's negotiating your worth or weaponizing a bluff you'll re-pull every year.

The role they built around you, not for you

"We can't lose you where you are" sounds like praise. Run it across four lenses and it reads as a cage you built and keep paying rent on. A committed verdict on indispensability.

The safe salary vs. the work that's actually yours

A mid-career engineer keeps circling a job that pays 40% less but fits the work he'd do unpaid. Is that svadharma or restlessness in a costume? We score both across the eight lenses and find the real fork.

The promotion over the friends you complain with

You're offered the lead role over three teammates you've shared lunch and grievances with for four years. The raise is real. So is the loss. We run one composite through the lenses that separate wanting the title from being right for it.