How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not
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Re: How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not
#2It takes me about a month to know for sure. If the job isn't right for me, it takes me a few more months before I consciously decide that there is no way to make the job right for me.
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#3At about the 2 or 3 year mark I've known.
Of course some places I've known sooner, but those are the exception.
If it wasn't for the quality of life my current jobs is providing, I'd probably find something else. I just can't find anything right now that is intriguing enough and pays enough for me to make the jump without losing benefits.
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#4A long time ago, I had a chat with a nurse executive who rose up the ranks. Her advice was to stick to a position until the butterflies settle (or approximately q 5 years).
Nursing is known for lifers on single units, and personal growth doesn’t happen unless you are cognizant and strive for it.
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#5It takes me about a month to know for sure. If the job isn't right for me, it takes me a few more months before I consciously decide that there is no way to make the job right for me.
It takes me between 1 ~ 2 months, for me to have a very good feeling...then the next handful of months to validate those feelings. In my 30 year work history, i have had only 1 job where i got it wrong..and EVERY single other job through my entire career, all it took was between 1 ~ 2 months to get a feeling if the place is good or not, if the role is right or not, etc. Then again, all except for 1 role, my entire career has been at medium or large corporations...so i'm sure corporate America has enough similarities in so many areas to enable this "early warning system". ;-)
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#6Takes me X months to discover where X is when I realise I don't like it. X is usually between 6 and 48. When X is nearer 6 it was a bad move. When X is closer to 48 it is because sands shifted. I never had a visceral reaction that I have been in a perfect job. But I know good from shit. Usually shit coincides with company is struggling to find PMF to fund growth through revenue. Also can mean company is sold to another company.
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#7> That job turned out to be shoddy, ancient, flaky tech all the way down, with comfortable, long-tenured staff who didn’t know (and did NOT want to hear) how out of date their tech had become.
Every time.
I don't care about your stack; obviously I have taste and preferences but I'm a professional, I'll work with whatever, as long as it isn't Rails. (Because there is no good work in that world.) But it will not take me a full day with access to your repos before I know whether there's anything you can do for me past signing the checks.
Re: How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not
#8> That job turned out to be shoddy, ancient, flaky tech all the way down, with comfortable, long-tenured staff who didn’t know (and did NOT want to hear) how out of date their tech had become. Every time. I don't care about your stack; obviously I have taste and preferences but I'm a professional, I'll work with whatever, as long as it isn't Rails. (Because there is no good work in that world.) But it will not take m…
genuinely curious what your take is here, I have been in security engineering for 5-6 years, then most recently a startup that's using rails. It honestly does not seem that bad even though we're using an ember frontend.
What is your thought process here? Is it the notion that you can ship as fast as possible, and that creates a shitty environment given that you're a hamster on a wheel getting measured by output since "you should be able to ship fast?"
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#9I think the depth of relationship with a job is more complex than comments and the article talk about.
What is you reaction to the kind-of-shitty company that gives you an opportunity for great personal growth and creativity?
Great colleagues but a real monoculture?
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I liked most of TFA but the end where the author claims that management is more committed than IC's seems really strange to me. Is that something people look for? It seems like it would come across as totally fake cheerleading. Anyway, outside my experience.
Re: How long it takes to know if a job is right for you or not
#10For me it generally takes six months, because as a reflection on my own headspace, it takes that long for me to trust that my intuition isn't just imposter syndrome/anxiety.