How long have you been in your current job?
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
6 months now . Before that was with the same company for 3.5 years. Another thing - What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Also how do you guys learn new things say STL - do you read up a book, work on a hobby project etc
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
I've been running my own consulatancy company for about 6 months now. Prior to that my last job lasted 30 months before being made redundant. Before that I was 5 years at a company, before getting totally hacked off with management and quitting. The job before that I lasted four years before the company went under. Michael :-)
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6 months now . Before that was with the same company for 3.5 years. Another thing - What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Also how do you guys learn new things say STL - do you read up a book, work on a hobby project etc
> What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Complain a lot and hope somebody notices :-) Spend a lot more time here at Code Project :-) >Also how do you guys learn new things say STL - do you read up a book, work >on a hobby project etc I got into STL because I was having problems with the MFC Collection classes. I was trying to have a CList inside another CList collection object. So I moved to use STL. I then started doing ATL COM because it made life so much easier, so I started to use std::string rather than CString. I did all of this in my job as I went along. I find the best way to learn stuff is just to get in there and do it. Learn from my mistakes etc. Pickup a book or MSDN when I need it. Michael :-)
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Have been in my current job for 10 months but I'm changing next week because some jerks from a consultant company told my actual boss to change applications to Java because has more future than .NET and he believed them. Talking about that I'd like to know your opinion about consultant companies (not trying to offend anyone who might work as a consultant) because my experience with them has been horrible. 4 months ago I was talking with two consultants (I must admit they were'nt programmers) and suggested us to change to an easier programming language to reduce costs (and YES, they suggested VB) so I'm still laughing when I remember that... Well, the fact is that now we're changing to Java and this is why I'm leaving to another company. ORi
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> What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Complain a lot and hope somebody notices :-) Spend a lot more time here at Code Project :-) >Also how do you guys learn new things say STL - do you read up a book, work >on a hobby project etc I got into STL because I was having problems with the MFC Collection classes. I was trying to have a CList inside another CList collection object. So I moved to use STL. I then started doing ATL COM because it made life so much easier, so I started to use std::string rather than CString. I did all of this in my job as I went along. I find the best way to learn stuff is just to get in there and do it. Learn from my mistakes etc. Pickup a book or MSDN when I need it. Michael :-)
I find the best way to learn stuff is just to get in there and do it. Learn from my mistakes etc. Pickup a book or MSDN when I need it. Just the way I would have said it. - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
8 years. Well, I have a small software development firm (15 developers) and there are people here with 3 years. Here we had people who worked from 3 hours (the guy just gone, saying "you work with too complicated things!") to 3 years. It seems to me, at least in Brazil, that medium time in jobs - MTJ - is proportional to experience - XP - (note that experience is different from time working - if you do nothing for 10 years, you have almost zero experience). MTJ = XP/2 :suss: Furor fit laesa saepius patientia
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
I've been in my current job (as a senior designer on subsea acoustic navigation systems) for over 3 years now. Prior to that I spent 9 years working on Automatic Test Equipment after leaving Uni. Andy Metcalfe - Sonardyne International Ltd
(andy.metcalfe@lineone.net)
http://www.resorg.co.uk"Be yourself, not what others want you to be."
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6 months now . Before that was with the same company for 3.5 years. Another thing - What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Also how do you guys learn new things say STL - do you read up a book, work on a hobby project etc
1/ Parts of the job will always be routine, I just put a CD in. 2/ Both - I'll buy some books and come up with a project that uses the skills I want to learn, to give me a reason to do it. Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Have been in my current job for 10 months but I'm changing next week because some jerks from a consultant company told my actual boss to change applications to Java because has more future than .NET and he believed them. Talking about that I'd like to know your opinion about consultant companies (not trying to offend anyone who might work as a consultant) because my experience with them has been horrible. 4 months ago I was talking with two consultants (I must admit they were'nt programmers) and suggested us to change to an easier programming language to reduce costs (and YES, they suggested VB) so I'm still laughing when I remember that... Well, the fact is that now we're changing to Java and this is why I'm leaving to another company. ORi
A consultant is someone who borrows your clock to tell you what time is it. He is expensive, can't read a clock, tell you that you need a bigger clock, then you buy it. When you buy it, the consultant still can't tell what time is it, so he lies. When things go wrong, he says that the cause is: "the clock reading process should be decentralized, gaining accuracy" Now, you have 5 different clock readings, and the average time is almost right. So, you think: "Now I know what time is it!" Then, he charges you for the consulting service and you pay, because "Now I know what time is it!". And he takes with him the older clock you forgot. :rolleyes: Now you can think: is a consultant necessarily a bad thing ? Now you know what time is it, don't you ? Ok, you could have learned clock reading, but you are too lazy ("I have focus in my business") to learn it, so I think it's why a consultant exists. And that is why I say my firm is a software development company, not a consultant company. Furor fit laesa saepius patientia
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8 years. Well, I have a small software development firm (15 developers) and there are people here with 3 years. Here we had people who worked from 3 hours (the guy just gone, saying "you work with too complicated things!") to 3 years. It seems to me, at least in Brazil, that medium time in jobs - MTJ - is proportional to experience - XP - (note that experience is different from time working - if you do nothing for 10 years, you have almost zero experience). MTJ = XP/2 :suss: Furor fit laesa saepius patientia
>Here we had people who worked from 3 hours (the guy just gone, saying "you >work with too complicated things!") Reminds me of a guy who came to work at one of my previous places of employment. He was given some work to and one of our guys gave him a brief overview of our code and ways of working. The new guy sat there taking it all in and seemed okay. He went out for lunch and never came back. He was never heard from again. Michael :-)
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
18 months. Sounds like it's time I change... Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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A consultant is someone who borrows your clock to tell you what time is it. He is expensive, can't read a clock, tell you that you need a bigger clock, then you buy it. When you buy it, the consultant still can't tell what time is it, so he lies. When things go wrong, he says that the cause is: "the clock reading process should be decentralized, gaining accuracy" Now, you have 5 different clock readings, and the average time is almost right. So, you think: "Now I know what time is it!" Then, he charges you for the consulting service and you pay, because "Now I know what time is it!". And he takes with him the older clock you forgot. :rolleyes: Now you can think: is a consultant necessarily a bad thing ? Now you know what time is it, don't you ? Ok, you could have learned clock reading, but you are too lazy ("I have focus in my business") to learn it, so I think it's why a consultant exists. And that is why I say my firm is a software development company, not a consultant company. Furor fit laesa saepius patientia
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
I have only ever had thre jobs. Pegasystems 2 years 8 months and counting CSC 3 years 1 month Commonwealth Bank 8 years 10 month Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone
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18 months. Sounds like it's time I change... Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
18 months. Sounds like it's time I change... I thought you had the "only C++ programming job in Hobart" ;P Did I remember/spell the "Hobart" part correctly? - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
I've been here toooooooooo long :-D 10 years 7 months
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18 months. Sounds like it's time I change... I thought you had the "only C++ programming job in Hobart" ;P Did I remember/spell the "Hobart" part correctly? - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Yeah, I'm pretty much resigned to moving to Melbourne or Sydney one of these days in order to find work. Yes, you spelled it correctly. ;) Christian As I learn the innermost secrets of the around me, they reward me in many ways to keep quiet. Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought Jewellery.
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Just wondering, how long have you been in your current job? It looks like (to me) that a lot of developers change their jobs kinda often. I have been working the same place for 1.5 years now, but starts in a new job next month :) - Anders Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
Been working in my current job for about a year and a half. Before that was my first job of just a year (short on professional experience but I have been around the stuff since I was 13). In the last year and a half it has not been the changing of actual companies but changing from: Junior Developer to Senior Developer to Junior Analyst to Senior Analyst. I also did some graphic design inbetween it all when the Design department was pressed for time. Heck I now also get to do a bit of sales work when the potential client is a bunch of techies. Put it this way, my current job is my last job in the computer world. This baby is taking me all the way to the top (and if it doesn't I am never going to touch another computer in my life) :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Chretien Malesherbes
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6 months now . Before that was with the same company for 3.5 years. Another thing - What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Also how do you guys learn new things say STL - do you read up a book, work on a hobby project etc
> What do you guys do when your job isn't interesting & is kind of routine ? Well that has not happened for quite awhile (I have my finger in all the pies so if one area gets a bit dull I go play with another area that is hopping ;) ) but if I do have spare time then I do a search on Google.com for "latest craze sweeping the internet development world" :-D and whatever that brings up I code an ad-hoc project to see what it does and how it works. > Also how do you guys learn new things say STL ST what? lol j/k, I know OF it but not ABOUT it. When something new comes along I find the best thing to do is get stuck in, read the introduction of the technology and start coding. Learn as you go along. Then if you want to seriously optimise the new tech then I find a good book on the subject and use it more as a reference or as a "damn, I am stuck, how do I do that?" source. So hobby project is my answer. (books are great to read if they are fiction, otherwise give me the index and the syntax use please) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Chretien Malesherbes