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?
You keep telling yourself it’s only temporary until something better comes along and then next thing you know it’s 15 years later.
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Idk how is ten years at a shitty job any worse than one year each at ten shitty jobs? At least my 401k is vested
I need a change because I can only do the same thing for so long before I get depressed
I left a job like this for a higher paying (but much more demanding) job and I miss my old one every day. Enjoy it while you can if it’s paying the bills
A lot of free time while paying the bills is probably the ideal job.
any job I've stayed out for longer than a year, it's because Mao (pbuh) blessed me with a slightly less shitty job
I've had the same job for 8 years. The reason is I've been afraid of never being able to find another job. Nothing better has come along, there's not any kind of work I want to do. I just got into a rhythm of working there and I watched as everyone around me has been replaced. I'm somehow the most senior person at the company besides the owner, something I never expected.
I hate it, but I don't know what else to do. I live in a conservative hog area, I'm not good with talking or interviews, I have no career ambitions, and I'm visibly not gender-conforming. I make a decent salary currently and nothing I can find would even come close.
I don't know what to do. I'm going to blink and it'll be another 8 years working there.
I truly have no idea how boomers have stayed at the same job for 40 godamn years
They didn't for the most part. That sort of job security was a very short lived time period, and more an element of greatest generation adult life than the baby boomers.
My job is fairly niche and safe and I only work four days a week. I dont plan on ever leaving because this is probably the best i can do.
Idk, I grew up in and out of family's couches and housing projects, then worked several shitty food service jobs that didn't pay the bills.
Once I got into a slightly better paying job I was willing to put up with just about anything to keep it, especially once I had a kid depending on me.
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
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:
FWIW, the reasons I hear you used to be able to work in the same job for 40 years because of more reasonable pay, conditions, and power of unions.
Nowadays, I never stay in a job more than two years, and it's never come up as a potential issue. Though I work in tech so maybe it's a field thing.
Then yeah, I assume it probably does, tech companies/departments are swapping stuff around all the damn time. I've flitted between 5 tech jobs (plus some few-week contracts) over 9 years and all employers have ever taken from it in interviews is that I have the breadth of experience to work with their niche techstack.
Organizing your shitty job makes it a lot more meaningful. If you're thinking of quitting anyways, why not hit up SEIU / OPEIU / CWA and tell them you want to organize?
my company is very wide and has a pretty good professional development program and will sponsor my Visa for the PRC.
Working a job is like being in a forever fist fight. Pace yourself and remember that the employer is your enemy.
