Am I resigning too quickly?

Inn3rs3lf said:
I applied for a sales position in the UK (Remote). The fact that I have been with three companies in two different roles over 18 years was frowned upon.
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They saw that as a negative because you hadn’t moved around enough, or too much over 18 years?

Longevity in a sales role is hard to come by over here.
 
geezer said:
Currently on 38 years, 9 months, 13 days at the same company...:cool:

470 Calendar days left before going on pension.
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Try to get early retirement/retrenchment. You will score retrenchment pay between 38 to 76 weeks depending on your company if you get retrenched.
 
Corelli said:
Try to get early retirement/retrenchment. You will score retrenchment pay between 38 to 76 weeks depending on your company if you get retrenched.
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No such luck for me. The company did go through a restructuring process recently. All posts were evaluated and classified as either red, orange and green. Red posts meant there were more people than what was required in the new structure. Those people could apply for voluntary early retirement( VER) or voluntary retrenchment (VR). Green posts meant only enough people are in those posts and could not apply for either VER or VR. I was in a green post.

They kinda screwed me because they knew I wanted to apply for VER and they moved me out of the red group to a green post a short time before the new structures were announced. In some instances I am the only person in the company trained by various manufacturers that can maintain, repair, calibrate and operate certain pieces of analytical equipment. I calculated what retrenchment pay I would have gotten if I qualified, it would have been just under two million ZAR...:crying:
 
rjay100 said:
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.


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.
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What type of work are you doing? I have never done the above, and expect that I never will.
 
Resign when your job no longer serves you. Life is short and the world is a really big place. Even for us down South here. Naturally this depends on how marketable your skills are
 
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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Nuclear Safety Framework Deployment Officer?
 
Corelli said:
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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Depending on his skills he could have left 3 or 4 times to different jobs in his 32 years and got an increase of 20%+ for each move and invested this money making him far more than 16months retrenchment pay.
 
I'm in a niche market where skills are highly sought after and move every 1-2 years.

Each move has increased my salary significantly and people in my field move often, I have worked with one guy at three different companies.

My CV is on LinkedIn for anyone to see and I get job offers often. Moving has done nothing but increase people's interest as I have worked for some pretty cool companies in various positions.

I don't know how people stay in one job for so long but depending on your industry this may be expected. I generally stay for one or two big projects like a complete agile transformation and make sure everything is sound before I start thinking about moving.
 
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