BA Q&A: Waging War

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Mandi is solo for today's BA Q&A! First, listener "Waging War" wants to know if she's underpaid at her job. Mandi gives her fantastic advice on how to bring this situation up to her manager and encourages her to keep her options open. Then, a listener is tired of working for big tech companies and feels uninspired. She says wants to be a high earner and work for a company that does good for the world. Our favorite career coach doesn't disappoint with her career tips! We want to hear from you! Drop us a note at [email protected] or hit us up on Instagram @brownambitionpodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.3	protection. Hey, hey, hey Bafam, it's mandra here with your first B-A Q&A of 2023.
0:43.2	I am sad to not have my my bestie tip here in the booth with me, but she will be back next week.
0:50.8	She is living her best life in Kenya right now. So you know, we stand her, we support her, but we're
0:57.9	a little bit jealous. That's all right. I hope you guys had a wonderful holiday. I'm going to jump
1:03.2	right into some questions because when I tell you, I thought, oh, everyone's going to be taking
1:07.2	vacation and you know, the B-A QA email is not going to be popping off. You all have so many career
1:13.0	questions, and y'all know as your resident career expert, I cannot wait to jump into these. So
1:18.9	without further ado, it's time for the B-A QA. Dang, I didn't say I thought I wasn't going to
1:24.4	sing it, but I'm doing it. Why? It's time for the B-A Q-A, the B-A Q-A. It's so awkward singing
1:32.4	by yourself. Oh, I'm hoping that y'all are singing in the car. B-A Q-A. All right, our first question
1:40.3	comes from a listener who'd like to be, I love this, bringing the heat, choosing violence.
1:46.5	A listener who would like her so pseudonym to be waging war. All right. Hey, Mandi Antiphany,
1:52.4	I love the show. I have a career question. I'm one year into a new job in a new field.
1:57.4	During the negotiations for this role, I secured a 20% increase from my previous job.
2:02.6	During my performance evaluation this year, however, I found out I'm making the 20th percent
2:08.3	tile for this role and job title with my company. My review was very good and the annual bonus
2:14.4	was about 10%. But I can't shake the thought that I'm being underpaid. I'm a black woman in STEM.
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