How many times have you changed jobs ...
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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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harold aptroot wrote:
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.