Comments on: Love Your Colleagues Thirty Minutes A Week

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:51:45 +0000

Gotcha. Well if there is reshuffling every 18 months, then you definitely got to look out for yourself and hop!!

By: Kay Lynn @ Bucksome Boomer

Kay Lynn @ Bucksome Boomer — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:45:15 +0000

My company is not large so I don’t get that volume of emails, but I think I get enough!

When hiring, we are very leery of job hoppers. It takes a good 9 months to a year to get someone fully trained and we don’t want to waste our time and money on someone who moves around every year or so.

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By: First Gen American

First Gen American — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:41:25 +0000

Oh, and by job hop, I always stayed in the same company…it was much like
jacque is describing except with consulting, you don’t always have to do the implementations stage. Most of the consultants on our audit staff only got to the solution stage, but then let someone else implement it.

By: First Gen American

First Gen American — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:37:46 +0000

You definitely got used to the pace of it and I did start getting the itch to move once the 2 year mark hit. The only stressful part was the pressure to relocate which I managed to avoid.

The other thing was that my company restructured often…so no matter what, ever 18 months you were wondering if you were wondering if you would still have a job. At the very least your job was shuffled to a new manager and his/her objectives usually didn’t line up with the last persons.

Usually, you spent first 3 months figuring out how to do the job, 6 months making your plan of attack and then 1 year working like crazy to implement it. I worked in a variety of functions and it was almost always the same. The culture was also very stressful, so after 2 years, you were usually spent and burnt out.

Moving jobs was not only a way to climb the corporate ladder, but to start fresh and get rejuvenated. It’s definitely not for everybody, that’s for sure, but it has given me tons of fabulous work experience.

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:22:28 +0000

How often did you hop every 2 years? Why can’t you just stay in one place, and progress by getting promoted and doing different things instead? Did you want to job hop? Isn’t it stressful?

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:21:37 +0000

Come on man, NONE of my posts are controversial for the simple fact that whatever my thesis is, you know it is 100% correct!

By: First Gen American

First Gen American — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:14:12 +0000

I think the job hopper thing highly depends on the corporate culture of the company. I worked for a fortune 100 and job hopped every 2 years, but if you were in a job more than 3 people wondered what was wrong with you. Now that we got sold, the culture is just the opposite. It’s interesting to see how much corporate culture can influence perception.

Some days I go out of my mind because I’ve got that itch to dive into something new again and that’s just not how things are done anymore.