How many times have you changed jobs ...

Pierre Leclercq

Fortunately nowadays resumes are mostly electronic, so we do not have to worry about page count anymore! :cool:

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CaptainSeeSharp

harold aptroot wrote:

(so I've never had a job)

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Roger Wright

In my first career - electronics engineer - 3 times over a span of 14 years. In the interlude, living in hell and taking any job I could find to eat, 3 regular jobs over a span of 12 years that included self-employment and part-time teaching at college. My second career, electrical power engineer, began 4 years ago, and barring a layoff, I don't have any plans to leave. Ever. There are a couple of myths I'd like to dispel, though. One is that the key to advancement in salary is to change jobs often. I've never changed jobs for a higher salary (within my profession), but each time my previous accomplishments were rewarded - and valued - more by my new employer than my former. I didn't get more $$$, but I got the job title and description I earned but did not receive previously, and that changed the pay scale available to me dramatically. When I moved to a new position, I left the top of the salary ladder and entered the bottom at the new job. It helps. Another is that frequent job changes lead to more professional growth. Bull. It leads to a dead end. When I, or most other managers I've known in my 40 years of working, see a resume that lists jobs that lasted 2 or 3 years, it goes in the circular file. Occasional short term employment is acceptable - one of mine lasted 2 years, as it was obvious they wouldn't be around for long (they closed a few months after I left, dead of incompetence), but a job hopper isn't worth training. If you can't stick with a job at least 5 years, you're not worth interviewing. Obviously, the rules are different for youngsters just entering the field - it often takes a young person a couple of jobs to figure out just what he/she wants to do in life. That's normal, and should be considered. But an idiot who changes jobs every couple of years to get more money isn't worth having in the company for 5 minutes.

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Jordan Marr

I've been given the advice that I need to become either a PM or an architect. There is a tendency to believe something if you hear it enough. I enjoy developing, so I always wonder why I would have to change? To avoid learning new technology?

Christian Graus

I was in school at 18. 19 - Junior Technical Assistant, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Meb Uni ( temp position ) 20 - worked in the library at Melb Uni ages are fuzzy from here worked with my dad as a gardener while studying worked in a call center begging for charity sold chocolate door to door sold vacuum cleaners door to door sold dry cleaning to businesses sold coffee and tea ( Robert TImms ) sold stationery ( SPS Supply ) -- started programming in 1999 -- worked for Viewbuild worked for Dytech Solutions worked for MAST Technology worked for VDIC working for Webster Veterinary That does not count contract work, only full time. Oh, I am 40. I started programming at 30. In that case, 9 jobs.

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kirankss

This is my 6th job and I have 10 years of experience in the IT industry

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I had 3 jobs, with two changes.

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Lost User

When I was an IT Manager, the rest of the snr mgt team couldn;t understnad why the payscales I requested overlapped. How could a developer possibly be paid more than a team leader? The truth of the matter is that some people were more valuable to me as developers than they would have been as team leaders - so I wanted to pay them sufficiently to keep 'em happy in the role without them thinking they needed promotionto get better remuneration. It worked well. nil staff turnover in 5 years. Of course there was the occasional bellyache when a team leader found they earned less than a developer -old habits dying hard - but generally all was well. I just got plain bored with the management game - took a redundancy package at the right time and haven't looked back (well, not much, unfortunately even developers as good as me rarely make as much as Snr IT Managers!)

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Idaho Edokpayi

10 and I turned 30 this year.

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S Senthil Kumar

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

I am trying to change careers at my current job though.

Trying to move into a business analysis role?

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Roger Wright

Christian Graus wrote:

sold vacuum cleaners door to door

You did that, too? I sold Rainbow vacuum cleaners. A $400 machine that to this day, I can't honestly point to any brand that does a better job of cleaning carpets. But my assigned territory was La Puente, CA, USA, which at the time was populated by Mexican illegal immigrants living on welfare. Most didn't speak English, and had 12 kids who thought that peeling paint on the baseboards was candy. They only called to get the free set of steak knives we gave away with each sales pitch. Awful experience...

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Jonas Hammarberg

Three On my sixth now at 45 but this was also my fourth so...

Viral Upadhyay

This is my 5 job and still counting.. But i think i will stick around here more time as from my previous company :) Changing job is really bad for your resume, but the bright side of me is i learn some new things that i never think i would learn in my previous job.

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Brady Kelly

I had only one change. I served eight years in the Air Force after school, then two years at a new company. From then on, changes were very quick.

Russell Jones

Depends what you mean by changed jobs. I worked through a temp agency for 2 years and must have worked for 20-30 different companies in that time. Permanent jobs though I think 3 till 30

Rajesh R Subramanian

I've changed jobs 3 times. The current job is probably the best (technically). [Added] The first job (which I haven't counted in this list) was delivering milk, door to door in the morning. I'm glad to have worked my way out of those days. :) [/added]

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Rama Krishna Vavilala

Viral Upadhyay wrote:

Changing job is really bad for your resume

that is a myth.

Michael Siroen

Never, I just got this one (since december last year) so I never really changed. But then again I'm just 20 :)

V 0

let me think, This is my third job, although officially it's my fourth. I worked one month for a consultancy company, but I never programmed one letter for them. I wouldn't say that is true, because here you'll be considered a "job hopper" if you change that much. Besides, your diploma, skills etc are far more important then changing job once in a while. (and luck also counts, the corporate atmosphere has to be right to allow you to move) I consider myself doing fine in my career. :-)

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phannon86

Job in terms of career, I'm still on my first (I'm only 23) and I've been here 2 years now. Including other jobs, +2 to that. I worked in a pub for 5 years to help finance uni, and during the same period for a year or so I had another side "job" as a "laser games supervisor" :laugh: for 1 night a week. That was a fun job.

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