If I'd answered the question of how to ask for a raise before I started my own business, I would've said, “Don't.”
When I was working for other people, I had that sort of competitive battleground, fear-based thinking that permeates so much of our workforce culture. Especially in New York City, where the creative jobs are scarce and the talent pool is strong, I had adopted a salary-based karmic ideology. It's the same backward theory that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella espoused at a 2014 conference, when he said “good karma” and “having faith in the system” will give women the right raises over time.
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