ever been poached?

an ex coworker is trying to get me to leave for his new company, he says its basically the same job but less work, more pay, better culture, etc

by switching i’d be getting about 40k more in salary after my raise this year.

seems too good to be true but maybe i just dont know my worth

2 years experience running private cloud infra kube platform, terraform, vra, jenkins, coding custom k8s mutating/validating webhooks and crd operators in go.

this is my first tech job after “learning to code” so i have major impostor syndrome

i know im getting ripped off becasue they have me teaching people how to code now who have worked here for way longer than myself and am considered a “senior golang guy” on the team, but im still a “new grad” level in the HR structure

the main thing im looking for is full remote, which the new job opportunity is, and my current job wants us to Get Back To The Office (at least partially)

yeah

i live in the NYC metro area and want to move away from here and buy a house upstate somewhere so i can really cut my costs down,