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Career decisions

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

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You want the title. You'd only say the mission.

A composite career reading: an operator weighs a Director role leading a team headed for a quiet wind-down. The pull is the résumé line no one will ever audit. The said reason is 'the team needs steady leadership.' Here's how to tell which is driving — tonight, free.

The job you'd stay for if they'd let you grow sideways

A seven-year veteran who's mastered the role, loved for it, and quietly capped by the compliment 'you're too good where you are.' We score the real question the Gita's way — and it isn't quit-or-stay.

The job offer with 40% more pay and no one to learn from

A composite career fork: 40% more money to join a team where you'd be the smartest person in the room. We run it on four lenses and name which one is load-bearing — growth of the number, or growth of the person who earns it.

The offer's real. Your name isn't on it in writing.

A mid-career hire is promised a lead role, a higher band, and her own team — over the phone and at dinner. The written offer arrives narrower. We score whether signing on faith is trust or self-deception, and the one sentence to send first.

You'd stay if they just said thank you. Should you?

A composite career dilemma: a solid outside offer weighed against a role you'd happily keep — if only someone had thanked you. Scored the Gita's way, where the tell isn't the offer, it's the fantasy of being missed.

You'd take the offer. But it needs a lie on the résumé.

A recruiter inflated your title and one project scope in the packet. You didn't write it — but staying silent seals the deal. KarmaLens scores the quiet trade on three lenses that bite, and names the version of yourself you'd start as on Monday.

You'd relocate for the role. Your partner didn't apply.

A composite career call: a step-up role in another city, and a partner who'd have to uproot the life they built for your ambition. KarmaLens works the decisive unknowns first, then makes the call — using the eight lenses where they genuinely fit.

Should I become a manager or stay an IC?

A composite of the top individual contributor pushed toward management they didn't ask for — scored the Gita's way on the four lenses that actually bite, plus a test you can run tonight.

The offer's better. The boss who bet on you isn't.

A composite engineer holds a cleaner, higher offer — and the manager who fought to hire him when his résumé was thin. We score where gratitude ends and a leash begins across four lenses that go to war.

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.