Employee gets offered a job by biggest client with a 35% raise but doesn’t know how to proceed to avoid problems: ‘Do I keep this completely to myself until there is an actual offer?’

A career path isn't a straight line.We face a lot of changes during our lives; from childhood to adulthood, we change into different people with different interests, problems, and priorities. That is just how life works. That doesn't mean that it is good or bad; it's just what happens. Change in our lives isn't distributed equally: most of the blow we get is when we turn 18: we have a million responsibilities and zero knowledge about how to handle any of them. But the rest of our adult life is also full of big changes. When getting married, having kids, changing jobs, all of that is equally stressful and terrifying. They are big changes for which we are never fully prepared. It's normal than when those times come we still feel like a liittle kid trying to make adult desitions. We don't know exactly what to do; it's like we are 18 again, making that first big change. We have evolved, but so did our problems. Changing jobs may be hard; you don't know what to prioritize. It could be more important: the salary, the working hours, the industry, the company. Everything weighs in when making a decision, and it's hard to know if there is really a good choice. It feels like everything has …

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