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Is having short job stints that huge of a red flag? I am not 100% done with programming as a career, but it turns out that most of my project stints were short
by satokema 9y ago
Is having short job stints that huge of a red flag?
I am not 100% done with programming as a career, but it turns out that most of my project stints were shorter and barely lasting a year.
Besides that, there is a huge question mark in the middle of my resume where I was doing contract work which wasn't regular for the time period, but it was pretty interesting compared to going to a soulless Open Workspace! for forty hours a week and put me in constant contact with the local startup culture.
If anything, I'm leaning towards doing remote stuff again, but it's pretty hard to find and I've already sworn off Elance/ODesk.
- tmaly 9y agoThere are some better options than Elance/ODesk. Have you checked out https://codefor.cash https://codefor.cash there are some other sites besides this that focus exclusively on remote work.
- gtsteve 9y agoIn terms of remote freelance perhaps TopTal might be considered. I have never worked for them but I have hired TopTal staff before and found them to be excellent. Anecdotally they all seemed pretty happy with their jobs.
- pkaye 9y agoWhat is considered a short job stint depends on the industry and how long an average project takes. For example embedded programming and hardware can have projects taking 1-2 years to develop so ideally you want people who stuck through a complete project. In other industries, projects might be much shorter.