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I have never stayed at a job for longer that three years. I always resign early. I learned a tough lesson when I was a 17 year old apprentice. I was very keen and started work an hour early every day. I loved my job. One day I was 15 minutes late and was called into the managers office. He said that he was going to dock 15 minutes pay for being late. I tried to explain that I had started early every day for that last…
A single model file with 3000+ variables was where I drew the line, and started looking for the next venture.
This is going to come off as a bit of a rant, and it is, but maybe if a reader feels like quitting they'll learn something reading my take. First job I quit was because of the terrible bosses, had a real tiny tyrant sitting in the high chair, though I cited inflexible scheduling on the next job interview. Then there was this one, I was lied to when interviewing and there wasn't any upward mobility nor a structure to…
Me too
I worked for https://collage.com/ which was an amazing, 10/10 experience. The company was quite profitable, brimming with intelligence, and had a successful, 9 figure exit to PE. PE merged us with several other companies while bringing in new leadership. New leadership grossly mismanaged the org and caused it to collapse. Collage was shut down 18 months post-acquisition, due to excess liabilities, after failing to fi…
I also purchased several gifts from the company, disappointed to hear it's no longer around.
1. Stumbled upon a dream job in the video game industry, couldn't pass it up, and glad I didn't. I also was mainly just coasting at the previous job, nothing really needed there other than quickly resolve client requests when needed. I only really needed to work about 10 hours a week there.
2. (Next five jobs were either contractor gigs or I was laid off, so I didn't resign, but a couple I definitely should have).
3. Was there for 6 years, the team was a shell of what it used to be and was in keep the lights on mode at that point (went from a 40 person team down to a 5 person team, between layoffs and slow attrition), put up with way too much crap including them taking away benefits and bonus, a pittance of a raise for years, and didn't promote me even though I was doing my previous boss's job and then some after he left (and did so for about three years), but about half the time it wasn't too difficult or it was inconvenient to leave because of a busy personal life, and also the pandemic was right in the middle of that, so that made me hesitant to go somewhere else since it was already remote. What made me pull the trigger was constantly reading on here how white hot the tech industry was at the time, and just being sick of my situation. Got a new job with a 60% raise a month later. So yeah, definitely should have left sooner.
4. Still at my current job, been almost 2 and a half years, starting to get the itch to do other things, but there's a chance I might get promoted (have a couple people pushing for it), so I'm sticking it out a bit longer to see if that happens. Also the work I'm doing is much more current and high profile yet not too stressful, which lets me have some energy to focus on personal projects after work still, which is nice.