How many times have you changed jobs ...
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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]
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Whoa, I thought you were only in your second job. Clearly, I am missing something.... (perhaps it's my memory :rolleyes: )
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
6 if you count temp jobs, 5 if not; 8 if you count spells working at the same place during university holidays individually rather than as one. 3 were doing web/online application development 2 were in embedded systems 1 involved sticking labels on bottles and bottles on conveyor belts
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Whoa, I thought you were only in your second job. Clearly, I am missing something.... (perhaps it's my memory :rolleyes: )
Cheers, Vikram. (Proud to have finally cracked a CCC!)
Recent activities: TV series: Friends, season 10 Books: Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Carpe Diem.
The first time we met, I was on my second job.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
I started my first programming job when I was 17 :) Old times! However, the positions I held during university were on the whole part-time jobs and there was a high turnover there, after graduation, to this day (I'm 29) I've switched jobs 5 times
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Viral Upadhyay wrote:
Changing job is really bad for your resume
that is a myth.
I'd be interested to hear the explanation behind that (as it seems someone is backing your post up :)), as I thought the same. Surely a CV illustrating lots of jobs with low period of stay would show that you're either not commited or unreliable?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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harold aptroot wrote:
(so I've never had a job)
Where do you get your money?
CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
Where do you get your money?
Bank. Shotgun. Mask. The rest is easy.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Viral Upadhyay wrote:
Changing job is really bad for your resume
that is a myth.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
that is a myth.
it should be.. but not all the employer think the way like you :sigh: and thank for 1 vote. :rose:
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
that is a myth.
it should be.. but not all the employer think the way like you :sigh: and thank for 1 vote. :rose:
Viral My Site Tips & Tracks
Viral Upadhyay wrote:
and thank for 1 vote. Rose
You care about these things? Here, I'm giving you one. Jus' kidding.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
that is a myth.
it should be.. but not all the employer think the way like you :sigh: and thank for 1 vote. :rose:
Viral My Site Tips & Tracks
As I told you the reason why I was curious was that I read more job changes = greater career advancement esp. till the age of 30. BTW I did not vote 1. I gave a 5 to compensate now.
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I'd be interested to hear the explanation behind that (as it seems someone is backing your post up :)), as I thought the same. Surely a CV illustrating lots of jobs with low period of stay would show that you're either not commited or unreliable?
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
Here is my take on it. Let's say you are in one job for a long time. You will get comfortable with it. You will work in the same environment for a long time and will not be exposed to different challenges, different people, different styles etc. Contrast with the guy who has changed jobs early in the career, he will have worked with variety of different people, different styles etc. So that's one advantage he has. Obviously, you have to learn something at each job. If you don't then my theory falls apart. Job hoppers who just hop without learning anything are of no use.
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harold aptroot wrote:
(so I've never had a job)
Where do you get your money?
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
By the time I hit 30 was on my second job. Have now beenthrough 5 jobs, my last job I remained in for 6 years and should have left after 6 months. Have a criminal tendency towards loyalty and toughing things out. I wouldnt recommend it to anyone, if it looks like, smells like and tastes like ....
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
6 changes (7 jobs) 7 changes (8 jobs) Anyone got an opening for a coder that can't count? :-O
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CaptainSeeSharp wrote:
Where do you get your money?
Bank. Shotgun. Mask. The rest is easy.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
Hand cuffs. Striped dress. Separate Cell. :)
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
I had one job as a cook before I went into the army at 18. I spent five years and 21 days in the army with eight different, distinct job responsibilities (NOT including training, which was a lot. I kept applying for schools and getting accepted.) -- major jobs as Infantry Ranger, Drill Sergeant, Infantry Officer, Air Defense Officer and Nuclear Warfare Officer. Then before 30, I had five more jobs. That makes a total of 15 jobs between the age of 18 and 30. That's about a new job every nine months or so. I'm close to 60 now and being an entrepreneur, my entire life has been a sequence of 6 to 12 month spans of changing responsibility and income streams. By the way, the only reason I'm not filthy rich now, is because until my forties, I was a hedonistic, immature horndog. I made and lost several small fortunes. Getting the attention of the fairer gender was pretty much my main goal in life. Then around the age of 42-43, I finally grew up. Only in the past few years have I actually began to understand why my life was so erratic. Having the overwhelming responsibilities of being a 19 year-old Ranger in 1969, a Drill Sergeant at 20, an Infantry Officer at 21 and a Nuclear Warfare Officer at 23, I spent most of the rest of my life trying to avoid responsibility.
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
Well, I've been working full time for a boss for only two years. In these two years I have changed jobs three times. If I started working at 18 and I was 30 years old now, at this rate I would have changed jobs 18 times. But probably this rate will slow down in the years to come. But I can tell you this: In two years, my salary went up over 300% since the first paycheck. Regards, Fábio
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
I turned 18 in 1979. I got my first programming job in 1980, and changed jobs in 1986, 1988, and 1990. I've worked for the same employer since.
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.
I think in IT it's the only way to progress quickly. I just got into programming 3 years ago and had worked at 3 different places. Each place I worked was a career jump in pay/position. Right now, I am in a position that usually takes 8 to 12 years to aquire had I stayed at the same place. There are disadvantages to moving around too. People will be hesitant to hire you when they see that you moved around every year, but that's when you'll just stay at the place you currently work. When lay offs come around due to budget cuts, you may be more likely to be layed off because they figured you may leave anyways. I'm quite happy I had chosen to jump around though. The amount of experience gained is priceless.
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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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Way back in the 70's Bell canada changed their policies to have a tech stream and a management steeam for careers. They realized they were losing their best technical people to mediocre at best management positions just because of salary. So technical people could earn a lot more then their managers. I still left for more interesting jobs - legacy code from the 50's was boring May I never see a line of assembler again and 3 jobs by the time I was 30
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.. since you were 18 to when you were 30 (or so far if your age < 30) The average I have heard is around 8. I was reading a book which said that people who change at least 8 jobs by the time they are 30 have more growth in career. How true is it? BTW I have changed only 3 jobs.