“Cool, tell me about them. Sounds like an interesting life.”
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?
Submitted 1 month ago by palnuhya@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 1 month ago
frankenswine@lemmy.world 1 month ago
why would i need an opinion on that?
Tujio@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If I’m a coworker in this situation I don’t care. If I’m a manager in this situation I just don’t bother training them on anything but the basics for the job.
waz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Make friends with the guy. He’s got some some stories. True or not, he’s got some stories.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh got stories. It be easier to tell you what I haven’t done, then to list what I have done for work.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There’s not enough context here to have a strong opinion, but I’ll add that personally, nothing has given me a bigger raise than getting a job at another company.
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.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s the right mindset.
For those reading, don’t let them fool you about down selling your worth. If you’ve got the skills they want, and you show that, they’ll pay you. Job history conversations are just a way to try and leverage lower pay or benefits on you.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The weird thing is “confessing” about it no?
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah that’s a lot of information framing.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
“That’s so cool man. What was the weirdest one?”
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I say that rookie numbers for that age. I am 44 and had at least the high hundreds. He little old but needs to pump those numbers up.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I was up to 14 at age 25. When you’re young and inexperienced, any schmuck that will pay you and be slightly less abusive than the last guy is worth working for, and you never owe the last person anything.
paddirn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That the person probably won’t stick around for long. I’d still give them a fair chance, but if they up and quit one day out of nowhere I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m not in charge of the hiring though, so I just work with whoever I’m told to work with.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Just work your shift
folkrav@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I don’t correlate much from job count. I have had 5 in the last 8 years, two of those following layoffs. Shit happens.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lol shit happens when something unexpected happens. 40+ occurances is not “shit happens.”
But like a bunch of people already stated there is barely enough info to even speculate off of nuch less have an opinion of.
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
What’s wrong with that? If you only find 3 months jobs you end up that way. And if you sprinkle some 1 week jobs the count rises very fast.
spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s going to depend a lot on context. Did he travel the world for five years, working a different temporary job at each stop? Or did he repeatedly get fired for pissing in the boss’ in-tray?
howrar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Or maybe had to simultaneously work multiple full time jobs and a weekend job to make ends meet?
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 month ago
This is the answer.
Also what types of employers. Large companies vs small business.
andrewta@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If it’s the last one, I’m bringing my lunch to work to watch the show as the boss gets pissed.
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My opinion is only that I’m not going to get attached, guy’s probably not going to be here long. That’s all.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe he worked a few years at a temp agency?
Metahodos@ani.social 1 month ago
“Welcome aboard, Johnny Sins”
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“neat.” then I go back to doing my job
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I’m 38 and I’ve had about half of that, but the vast majority was from 16-25. They were all shitty retail things or short term odd job type things, but work is work so I include them if someone asks how many jobs I’ve had.
I’ve done everything from retail, to refrigeration diagnostic work. From wiping ass and giving meds, to even being a carnie. The only type of jobs I’ve never had are “real people jobs” like office work. I’m just a subhuman meat machine.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Depends on the job, but it would be a red flag for my career as projects usually last for at least a year.
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Let’s judge him for doing something different, while being too afraid of doing the same.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d say it is none of my business what they did for employment prior to where they are now and stay out of their life.
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Not my problem, tell me more
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would assume they were exaggerating and/or were a consultant at some point.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 month ago
Could be gig jobs as well. With seasonal work you can easily get four jobs or more in a year without even doing anything unusual.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re right. Here in 2024 your version is more likely than mine.
GreyShuck@feddit.uk 1 month ago
By that age, I was into my third long-term job (> 5 years) and had had upwards of 16 short term ones - multiple part time ones at once, or some just for a few weeks or a couple of months here and there between the long-term ones etc.
48 doesn’t seem that unlikely - nor even an indicator that they will not be staying put for any length of time unless your job is a shitty one with a high turnover anyway.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Just had a talk about this exact topic in an interviewer today. Talked about how a growing number of companies on my resume no longer exist, and the guy interviewing me said he had the same thing. It’s a rough business world we live in. I’m not gonna hold the number of jobs a person has had against them. In fact, it speaks of experience. Not deep, but certainly wide.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Around here, it would be a super red flag.
Such short time employments are extremely rare and uncommon.
It would mean that either he has been fired ungracefully so many times, or he does never like what he’s doing and therefore quits very soon.
Today@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My DIL had at least that many by age 26. Now she makes more than i do, so… 🤷
HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Depending on the details, either “holy fuck that’sbadman” or “holy fuck rich”.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Nice to meet you, Mark. What’s the longest you’ve stayed at any one job, Mike? So tell me, Matt, do you have any friends from previous jobs, or just forget their names?
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Depends entirely on what the job is.
Is the 42 year old a welder? Then 48 different jobs might mean they’re in super high demand and contract out to high paying, low time frame jobs.
Is the 42 year old a cop or a priest? Probably skips town a lot for… reasons…
Most any other job might just mean they’ve had an interesting life and like to try new things. Their broad experience might mean they’re great for what they’re currently doing.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even if he’s a coder I wouldn’t be surprised. Also I spent 5 years as a consultant and worked fot 1 company in about 10 diferenr companies doing different things, is that 10 differenr jobs?!
raef@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you switch the keycaps for your r’s and t’s?