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If you don't mind me asking some questions: How do you feel about working in this industry? Have you moved jobs a lot? The reason I ask is my parents have bee
by spike021 9y ago
If you don't mind me asking some questions:
How do you feel about working in this industry? Have you moved jobs a lot?
The reason I ask is my parents have been "working" or in their adulthood as parents/slightly before having children for roughly 30 years and for the most part have kept the same jobs. So as a new software engineer fresh out of school, they find the idea of needing to switch jobs for higher pay, new challenges, etc. to be a bit unbelievable and disagree that I should eventually do that.
- cableshaft 9y agoIt's a different world nowadays. Switching jobs every 1-3 years is more the norm now than being a lifer (for most industries, not just software dev). They're probably coming from the perspective of the time they lived in, and don't realize that the world has changed quickly around them over the decades. And the younger you are, the more expected it is. My parents are the same way.
- TomMarius 9y agoYes, switching jobs is necessary in IT most of the time. Some HR people will even see staying at one job for too long as weird.