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Re: Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

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Post by Cheezmeister » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

yaky wrote: post #57

I also spent almost a decade at my first out-of-college corporate job. Had a great team, slowly shifted from company-specific ERP and niche client-server software to web development. It was very comfortable for a long time. I left after internal changes started demoting my team to support and maintenance, HIPPO and all that. I don't regret staying there for how long I did: I gained a width of non-company-specific exp…

> HIPPO, highest paid person's opinion. It is often a deciding factor in what decisions and next steps a team takes

TIL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo_(disambiguation)#Other

Re: Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

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Post by mrjohnes » Mon, Sep 02, 2024, 9:18 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

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Post by Breza » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 3:01 PM UTC

shlant wrote: post #53

lacksconfidence wrote: post #29

I've also been at my current employer for a little more than a decade. I've been promoted to the 2nd highest level possible for an engineer without ever asking or doing specific actions to get those promotions. The last promotion would take actual direct effort, but I'm honestly not that interested. My salary is 2x-2.5x where it started as, and from a few brief stints interviewing at interesting places that reached o…

gave a similar answer. My regret is that I wish I kept learning.

I've worked at the same place for the past decade. Continuing to learn is something that takes real effort, whereas my friends who have job hopped have had to learn new stacks every few years. I set up challenges for myself, such as using a new library for a given project when it makes sense and learning everything I need to know about it.

Re: Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?

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Post by cben » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 4:33 PM UTC

I regret not seeking internal transfer within my last employer. I "followed the flow" there for 8 years. Couple years ago I got less happy with project and passively talked with manager about "maybe switching projects in future" — yet stayed on out of laziness and liking the team. The point of no return was when manager/team started being unsatisfied with my performance too.

In retrospect, me unhappy + them unhappy = time to actively seek moving (which they'd still support back then); I stayed into a spiral of feedback => motivation => productivity => ... eventually I was laid off. I can't know how moving would have worked out but I regret not trying. [OT: and other passivity, not taking feedback seriously enough, sticking to WFH despite evidence it was challenging for me.]