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xfreed @sh.itjust.works

2y ago

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It depends how you want to count them. Does self-employed (artist), self-employed (IT consulant) & self-employed (tree surgeon) count ad one or three? Especially since all of those overlapped to some extent. And do promotions count?
However, looking at long-term, full-time roles only, then about 5 - most of which involved at least one internal promotion. Probably closer to 15 if you include all the odds and ends. I'm in my 50s and will probably be staying put now until I retire.
My brothers - quite a bit older than me - had one job (including promotions) in one case and two in the other.
- i gotta ask: whats a tree surgeon?
  
  It is about dealing with damaged or diseased trees mostly, or just reducing the tops to make them safe and so on.
  I spent my time climbing trees then hanging from them on ropes while playing with chainsaws. Very enjoyable and satisfying work, but extremely physical.
Several dozen, in four different fields. I've been a teacher, a programmer, a childcare worker, and a waitress.
I'm considering becoming an electrician next.
- Little of both!
Just looking at employers in my professional career. Two. One for 15 years then the current for 3.
Looking at my direct and diagonal leaders, they seem to average 3-5 years a role, and I consider staying with my prior employer for so long a mistake. I made career progression and promotions there, but it still slowed me down vs changing employers.
i think I'm on 8? early 30s
Like if you count jobs I did in high school or university or before I got into my career job, several, but in my actual career.... several. I just move around the organization sometimes for a variety of reasons. I like the department I'm in now though so will probably stay here as I really like my patients.
11 - 5 were summer/college jobs when I was a kid, and I've had a couple of promotions, so I've only had 4 employers/6 jobs in the last 18 years since my first "real" job. I've stayed at most of my employers way longer than a lot of people my age (39), though, so I think it would be reasonable to have had more. It might've been better for my salary to have more. I just really, really hate job hunting and I've been fortunate to mostly enjoy what I do.
For younger people, I don't see job hopping as being super problematic, though I know a lot of people in charge of hiring do. If you've hit 30 and haven't managed at least a couple years at one place, that's probably not a good sign, but people should try different stuff (and get more money). We spend too much time at work to be miserable.
12, but it's complicated. I was a freelancer for a long time, count that as one job, but I had dozens of customers. I quit one place and went back, and 2 employers have been acquired while I worked there, count all those as one each. Not counting summer or part times while in school. This is all over the span of 44 years, so I'm a little quicker than your 4 years on average. The shortest one was a little less than a year; it was a mistake to take the job in the first place. IMO, switching jobs is the biggest, maybe the only, leverage a worker has vs an employer. If you don't have a credible alternative to your job, they know that, and know they can victimize you.
I was a greens-keeper after high school for about 8 summers. Then I got a decent software development job that I still have more than 11 years later.
Right now I'm at 8 different jobs in 5 different companies. I switched jobs inside one (totally different job profiles). 4 of those jobs were during school and university time.
In 25 years of working I've had 13 jobs for 4 companies. Seems like a lot, but most of the changes were just moving into related jobs paying incrementally better money, with the support of my manager.
I've had 14.
10 of them were from when I was a kid through college, and then 4 in my professional career. I'm entering my 40s and have been at my current job for 8+ years now.
Anytime someone moves to a new job at a quicker pace than once every four years sounds a bit much to me. Not in a disapproving way of course. I've had many odds and ends but only one true career, though this in turn can be split into a few roles which I have taken. As often as I explain it, all parts of the career, old and new, are difficult to explain, though they can be discussed.
- As always, it depends
  contract work is much less - I had a 6 week gig once
  startups may not last - I worked for a couple software startups that were funded for one year
  in the beginning of your career, you really need to move on after 2-3 years, if you want career progression. Most of your career, you need to demonstrate stability, so yeah, 4+. However, at least for software, new employers get worried if you e been at the same pla pace a decade or more
  
  What do they get worried about? Someone might like their exact position, no? Or do I misunderstand?
  But yeah, that's where I tried to differentiate gigs from careers. Gigs are one-time favors, sidequests if you will. When I call something a career, I refer to an indefinite mainstay. And in-between gigs and careers you might get something like my described line of work where it's akin to a club or association taking on a labor role. If it's a career, and the person isn't there for more than four years, a part of me half-expects there was a falling out.
6 in 20 years.
large is a relative term. Assuming they started working part time at 16, If i reviewed a person who had 10 jobs by the time they were 25 that would be a red flag. If they have 10 jobs by 35 that would be less of a red flag.
- I'm 28 and have had 10 jobs total since I turned 18.
  Half of them are temporary jobs during school, half of them are because of natural professional growth that comes from being good at what i do.
Ive had 2 but i only in my twenties and in college so i think thats reasonable. Worked as a waiter and had an internship handling the shipping and disposal of nuclear material. Mostly did unsupervised demolition ans oporated a forklift without a license lmao.
Pretty chill tho, got to listen to the magnus archives and hit things with a sledge hammer. It was just a temp building made of shitty ass wood so the demo wasnt too dangerous
- Of around 10 people at my work who operated the forklifts (myself included), only one guy was actually certified, and his certification had expired.
  
  That sounds about right lmao. I only like mentioning it because of the old meme surrounding operating a forklift without a cert
Including my employer being bought out by another company? Ten since 1990. Shortest stint was under a year. Bern with my current employer 11 years now.
I started out doing software development. I’m now a devops engineer.
I've had 6, which I consider low for my age. A large number of jobs would be around one a year in working age.
Nine, if you only count full time jobs after graduation. Been at it for over thirty years, though.
I'm 32 and I'm on my tenth job in just under three years. I'd consider that a lot but I'm quite fickle when my job conditions are shit so it depends how you look at it.
- 10 jobs in 3 years? That over 3 jobs a year. I'm not saying you should stay in a job with bad conditions, but I'm not sure how you could look at it where that isn't a ton of job in a short amount of time.
  
  It's a lot by my own standards even, ha.
Counting from the age of 18 to now, I have had 18 actual jobs in the last 30 years. A couple were times when I had two jobs at the same time, and I didn't count side gigs I had.
I would guess that I've had a lot of jobs, but I am now in tech,so it doesn't seem to hurt me like it did when I worked other industries.
Did some different jobs when I started working at 18 years old, three different jobs in 2 years. Decided I needed to do something different, and in the 28 years since I've worked at another 4 companies (including the current job). Chanced jobs a lot within the previous company, five different positions in 11 years.
I consider it a large amount if somebody is switching companies a lot within 2 years (like 6 companies in 10 years) but it depends on what they do, and at what level they typically work.
I had 3 so far in my 5 years of working.
Someone shared on my local Reddit group that their boss actually prefers people with more jobs under their belt as the candidate has much more varied experience.

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