Because you would get it anyway.
There are those that encourage employees to seek jobs that give them a challenge. This is especially common in small companies, where employees are promised a wide range of tasks to develop themselves.
Your job decision should be based on:
- Compensation
- Job stability
- Exit opportunities
Understand that when you work, your primary use to the company will be to produce output, and your development a secondary priority.
Seek a job that allows you to learn, yes. That is a critical part of the job. But remember that having a proactive attitude to learning is not something everyone can muster, and so you should be adequately compensated for it.
No employer or manager would pay you more for providing them leadership training by being a challenging employee to manage. You should not accept less for taking on challenging tasks.
Chase the salary, the stability and future growth in your career, and the learning will come along with it for free.
Just as every employer will seek to get the greatest amount of output for as low a wage, it is the employeeโs prerogative to get the greatest amount of total compensation (wage + benefits + development) for the lowest personal cost in terms of effort and time.
The caveat here is that you should seek out employment where the culture or specific leaders are known for mentoring – this can come in the form of constructive feedback or guidance. What you don’t want to be “learning” from is being tossed a task with no guidance and being put under pressure to deliver just because your employer is too stingy to hire another pair of hands.
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