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I stayed in the same job for nearly a decade, it got really interesting in the second half; in a way that it never would have gotten if I had job hopped every 3
by gwbas1c 2y ago
I stayed in the same job for nearly a decade, it got really interesting in the second half; in a way that it never would have gotten if I had job hopped every 3 to 5 years.
That being said, once I got bored in the job, I sniffed out that the parent company wanted to lay a few people off, and hinted that I was open to it. It worked out well for me.
I was just too busy in my personal life to look for a job on the side, and honestly I didn't want to walk away halfway through a project.
- stogot 2y agoHow do you bring up that you want to be laid off?
- gwbas1c 2y agoSituation: My boss was given a month notice about getting laid off. He told me that he believed the department head was told to cut costs dramatically. Situation, part 2: All tech products have a life cycle. At some point they go into maintenance mode where there's no active development of new features. Situation, part 3: Although we were a market leader in our niche, we just couldn't compete with what was coming from Microsoft. Thus, I had a 1-1 with the department head. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I probably alluded to wondering what I was going to do when the feature I was working on was complete, and hinting that, after working on this product for a decade, I was getting kind of bored. The package was confidential, but given that my last day of work was February 29, 2020, I made out rather well. :)