Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?

JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Gen-X in tech here. When I was about to enter the workforce we were told that having multiple jobs in our resume or showing that we stayed at a job less than five years was really bad and would make us difficult to hire because it showed that we couldn’t be depended on.

Fuck that!

I switched jobs all the time as I chased higher salaries and bigger benefits. If they wanted my skills they needed to pay me AND they needed to guarantee me at least two off-site training programs per year. All that training and experience in different technologies and environments made me more and more valuable until my only option was to go into consulting so that multiple clients can benefit at once and none need to commit to paying me beyond the scope of their project.

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