Graduated in 2020 and have had two jobs since then 😬 I know it doesn’t look good on your resume when you jump from job to job in a span of a few years, but I truly have no idea how boomers have stayed at the same job for 40 godamn years

I think it gets to the root of the problem that is work culture (in whatever country) the company always comes first. Because new hires require more cost to the company in the form of training/onboarding/learning whatever new unique workflow. We all know that the “freedom to work wherever you want” line from liberals is horseshit.

I swear to god if service work paid a living wage, I would just jump around as I please. Instead I’m locked into menial white collar work (which will probably not exist in 5 years tbh) and living the same day for years on end.

How do y’all manage?

  • RION [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I know it doesn’t look good on your resume when you jump from job to job in a span of a few years

    The conventional wisdom is to stick it out for a year before moving somewhere else, so you're fine with two jobs in ~3 years.

    I graduated a year after you and am in a similar ship though. Getting laid off soon as the project I was hired to work on is getting canned due to fundraising cratering and the spectre of looking for work again is nauseating. I think I need to find some self-employed enterprise soon before I go insane from wage labor

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      getting laid off weeks into a new job because of obscure wacky investor/c-suite level 4d economic dowsing

      and then in interviews you get accused of job hopping :deeper-sadness: