Am I resigning too quickly?

marco79 said:
Company 1 : 2.5 yrs
Company 2 : 8 months
Company 3 : 5 months
Company 4 : 1 yr
Company 5 : 1.5 yrs
Company 6 : 2.5 yrs
Company 5 again : 1.5 yrs
Company 7 : 1 yr
Company 8 : 3 yrs
Company 9 : 6 yrs (currently)

Due to the variety of projects, I am now seen as a specialist in my specific field.

Disclaimer: I am not in IT or computers.
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Let me guess, bankruptcy or business rescue specialist?
 
rjay100 said:
I’m averaging at around 1 year per company.
I know back in the day people would stick it out for 8 years at a job they hated.
Is staying at a company for years on end so you don’t look like a job-hopper still a thing? I get paid well enough but the work, processes and tech is ancient and horrible. Closing in on one year and thinking of firing up my LinkedIn..
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As a recruiter, you are a job hopper and companies do not like that, it's still a thing 100% BUT your reason for wanting to leave is reasonable to me, because I understand the damage it can do to an IT career working with outdated technologies.

My suggestion would be that you put your CV out there, update your LinkedIn profile but make sure your reason for leaving is to secure a position within a company that is working with the latest technologies and that intends to continue the growth of their technologies. Make sure that when you move that reason for leaving is confirmed to be true for the company before you make the move. Then stick it out, 4 - 5 years. So makes sure the move is right for you because eventually you are going to get stuck in a position, because no one wants to hire you.
 
Tomtomtom said:
Maybe stick it out long enough to get into a position to actually influence the work processes and tech?
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This is definitely not going to happen. Tech is chosen at HQ somewhere in the UK/US by people who haven't actually worked "on the ground" for over 30 years. Local team is even worse at handling change.

WhiteRaven said:
As a recruiter, you are a job hopper and companies do not like that, it's still a thing 100% BUT your reason for wanting to leave is reasonable to me, because I understand the damage it can do to an IT career working with outdated technologies.
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I literally haven't touched any web/cloud/mobile related technologies in close to 12 months. Currently working on a project with tech from 2009 - I'm upskilling backwards. Had to force myself to get certifications to "get back into new stuff" :/ And those certs will become "stale" if I stick around because I'll just end up forgetting that too.
 
I avoid CV's with a lot of jumping unless it was rapid internal moves and it was clearly someone capable who started low and jumped upwards repeatedly. My first company was 2 years, that was freelance consulting so I moved a lot between clients and learned a lot fast. Since then one company for 15 years odd. Starting to seriously consider moving to get a raise as my increases have been very lackluster on average for a number of years now. The people and the stability is nice but the corporate remuneration systems at the current employer broke somewhere down the line and I don't see it coming right soon. Turnover is through the roof this year. In a team of perhaps 25 highly specialized and and hard to train skills we have lost 6 people in under 6 months.
 
rjay100 said:
I literally haven't touched any web/cloud/mobile related technologies in close to 12 months. Currently working on a project with tech from 2009 - I'm upskilling backwards.
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I might be in the minority but I don't see an inherent problem in working on old tech.

There's people at NASA still working on the Voyager probes from the 1970s. Their jobs are pretty awesome if you ask me.

Old tech still going strong is by definition at least capable of survival, which counts for something.


rjay100 said:
This is definitely not going to happen. Tech is chosen at HQ somewhere in the UK/US
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That's the bigger problem imo. If the decision making is out of your hands and you can't see a path to that sort of autonomy then maybe this one is a dead end.
 
Big Rat said:
3 years company One, retrenched
4 years company Two, But Company one was software house that loaned me to Company Two, so basically 7 years at Company Two. Retrenched after boss retrenched whole IT department. Had 4 months of contract work with Company Two, nailing them for retrenching the day before Christmas. Worked one week a month for double the salary.
Then Company Three for 18 years. Still going strong.
I like stability.
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Similar story...

3 years 3 months at first company
4 years 6 months at second company that outsourced me to third company
3 years 3 months at third company where I was meant to be exclusively used by second company
6 years 8 months back at second company

I do like stability but I have grown constantly where I currently work, the benefits are pretty good and the team/s I work with are great.
 
Tomtomtom said:
I might be in the minority but I don't see an inherent problem in working on old tech.

There's people at NASA still working on the Voyager probes from the 1970s. Their jobs are pretty awesome if you ask me.

Old tech still going strong is by definition at least capable of survival, which counts for something.




That's the bigger problem imo. If the decision making is out of your hands and you can't see a path to that sort of autonomy then maybe this one is a dead end.
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There is a huge problem with old tech. There is a digital transformation ongoing today. This requires new skills. If you use old tech then you will not gain the skills required and you will be stuck in a rut, and your salary will stagnate with your skills. Failure to modernize leads to business failure. Tech people should avoid companies that fail at modernization.
 
/looks for poll :p

Company 1: 23 years
Company 2: 8.5 years (still happy)
 
rjay100 said:
I’m averaging at around 1 year per company.
I know back in the day people would stick it out for 8 years at a job they hated.
Is staying at a company for years on end so you don’t look like a job-hopper still a thing? I get paid well enough but the work, processes and tech is ancient and horrible. Closing in on one year and thinking of firing up my LinkedIn..
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Lots of experience with a few tech companies

There is no good answer for now...
If you hate your job then life is too short.

BUT 1 or 2 single year year stints are easily explained.
Lots of them and and average of 1 is less easily explained

If its a definite pattern then it is a problem.
A mistake is easily explained
 
Start your own thing. I have worked in multiple industries. And “job hopping” is probably why I was never accepted into some of the companies I really wanted to get in for the long haul. But its their loss honestly. I am the real-life Jarod from The Pretender.

The Pretender (TV series) - Wikipedia

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You have to do what makes you happy. Also it doesn't matter if you're seen a job hopper. You could find something amazing only to have your dream destroyed by a wife/husband or girlfriend/boyfriend CEO and supervisor team that will destroy a dream job and references just like that.

That is why I would advise you try and make something you love doing into a business. You can start now before you resign. While you are searching for something else. For me that was gaming and gamers. Currently, I try focusing on gamers as my main target market side hustling none gaming hardware too.
 
3 years at my first real job
3 years at the next, big corporate
8 years after that, longest one
2 years at an MSP
8 months at a liquor distributor 4 months in Cyril said no more dop. Only job i was retrenched at
almost 2 years at my new one
 
Some companies offers 2 weeks retrenchment pay for every year work, and additional benefits ie free medical when youre close to your retirement going forward, and you get some UIF, not much. So it depends.

If you are wise, then staying at a company longer can be beneficial

If you hop and skip, you never really get any retrenchment pay. If you are wise, it can be a lot.

My one boss worked 32 years at my company. He took early retirement (retrenchment). They paid him 16 months of retrenchment pay. It worked out over a million and a bit. He paid off his house, bought a new car cash. He had a second properly renting out to doctors getting R16k per month rental income. He got UIF for then about 9 months or so, which wasnt much, but it was a bit. His medical aid forward was covered by the company indefinately as part of the retrenchment package. Your first R500k once off is tax free too.

He now works at another company but he is set up, and just bought another apartment which he stays in, while making R32k now per month rental income, over and above his pension.

So if you are wise and invest it well, then you dont have to stay long, but if the benefits for retrenchment in the long run is good, then it may be worth hanging around.

Companies goes through changes all the time. You will enjoy your dull moments.
 
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