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.
"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.
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.
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.
A better offer, a startup that can't run without you, and a grudge you haven't said out loud. We score the classic quit-or-negotiate dilemma on three lenses that actually bite — and land one committed call.
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