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I believe he missed a few situations: * If it is Tuesday - leave. * If your house is yellow - leave. * If someone sneezed in your building - leave. The resume

I believe he missed a few situations: * If it is Tuesday - leave. * If your house is yellow - leave. * If someone sneezed in your building - leave. The resume you build would be a nightmare for any employer. Once you become completely competent in your job or become a key player, promptly resigning seems like the worst possible thing. Could you imagine the next HR interview? HR: "Why did you leave you last job?" A: "I learned everything about the product, was completely productive, and enjoyed the work. So, I had to leave." Also, stringing off to create your own product would be even worse advice. The moment your complete the first rendition of a project, you would meet all the requirements to quit working on it. Your manager, yourself, would want you to stay, which means you would violate the "If your manager wants you to stay - leave." rule.

jrwoodruff 16y ago
My experience has been that once you're completely competent in your job, that's the job your stuck with. You can try to grow into other areas (and end up doing 3 people's jobs) or apply for different positions but you're out of luck since you've become a 'key employee.' Whether that's bad management or my inability to play office politics, it's happened more than once. Which made it time to leave.
- hvs 16y ago
  I've generally found that once an employee is completely competent (or exceptional) at their job, they are promoted to manager where they are miserable or ineffective. It's called "the Peter Principle," and it is disturbingly common in the technology world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
  - robin_reala 16y ago
    As an employee you don’t have to accept those promotions. You can push to expand your role in engineering instead.
    - zeemonkee 16y ago
      Provided your company is far-sighted enough to pay you according to your ability, not your managerial rank. For most the money is too good to turn down.
      - robin_reala 16y ago
        The one time I’ve been in that situation I’ve ended up leaving that company and taking a much better paid engineering role at a different one :)

jrwoodruff 16y ago

My experience has been that once you're completely competent in your job, that's the job your stuck with. You can try to grow into other areas (and end up doing 3 people's jobs) or apply for different positions but you're out of luck since you've become a 'key employee.' Whether that's bad management or my inability to play office politics, it's happened more than once. Which made it time to leave.

hvs 16y ago
I've generally found that once an employee is completely competent (or exceptional) at their job, they are promoted to manager where they are miserable or ineffective. It's called "the Peter Principle," and it is disturbingly common in the technology world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
- robin_reala 16y ago
  As an employee you don’t have to accept those promotions. You can push to expand your role in engineering instead.
  - zeemonkee 16y ago
    Provided your company is far-sighted enough to pay you according to your ability, not your managerial rank. For most the money is too good to turn down.
    - robin_reala 16y ago
      The one time I’ve been in that situation I’ve ended up leaving that company and taking a much better paid engineering role at a different one :)