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Have you considered looking for another job that you don't hate quite as much?
by legerdemain 6y ago
Have you considered looking for another job that you don't hate quite as much?
- throwaway48491 6y agoI have but if I'd much rather have a job that's not so much fun than to have no job at all. I'm worried that I will quit and not find another one or my employer will find out that I'm job searching and fire me. This is my first "real" job so I don't know if all jobs are the same in this regard. I sort of want to change but if I change after a year I'm not sure that other employers will get the impression that I'm job hopping. I guess it's mostly a salary thing; if I wasn't paid on the very low end I wouldn't care as much about it being not a good fit as long as I'm doing ok.
- legerdemain 6y agoI have a non-traditional, non-CS background as a software engineer. I worked for a number of years in my first tech job that made me increasingly anxious. At the same time, I believed that I was completely uncompetitive as a candidate, and that leaving was professional suicide. Last year, the situation came to a climax and I left the company without any plans for the future. After decompressing for a few months, I started looking for work again, and was very surprised that only a bit of study and preparation (as a non-CS grad, mind you) got me a number of offers from a range of software companies. Every offer I got was better than what I was getting at the company I had left. Just an anecdote, but I don't think it's that unusual, especially for people early on in their software careers.