How many times have you changed jobs ...
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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.
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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 changed jobs 5 times between the ages of 18-30, but around the 8th change, at age 35, I had the most significant increase in growth.
You are here - through no fault of mine!
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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.
Five and they were completely different each time ...
Edgar Prieto Software Engineer
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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.
2 Worked for Siemens in Munich until I met my wife. Moved to the UK. Worked at the same place since then. (I'm now 61...) Now, as for changing employers, that's a whole different kettle of fish. We've been bought and sold so many times, I'm not sure who I'm working for now! :laugh:
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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.
Changed jobs three times (4 jobs) between 18 and 30 plus two temp jobs. Changed another two more time since 30 and I am now 49. This includes two career changes and a relocation between 18 and 49. I sure hope I'm done!
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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 was a graduate student, then post-doctoral research associate. So - I was gainfully unemployed (in standard terms) until age 30. Just so you have a bit of info: First Job: ca. 9 months Second Job: ca. 11 years Attempt at home business: 1 year full time Third Job: 9 years Last five years: Contractor Obviously - being unstable and being a stable employee don't seem to have much to do with one another.
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I live with my parents.
Ah, so it's: Bank. Shotgun. Mask Mums Tights. The rest is easy.
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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.
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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.
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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
I'm 32 and I changed jobs two times (three jobs total) all as sw developer. First one was part time learning gig, other two full time.