Ego Stroke

Recently Kogan emailed Jeff and I about jobs…more specifically the length of our jobs. At one extreme, Jeff has been employed for 16 years at the same places and on the other extreme I average 1.2 years per job.

Each extreme has there own pros and cons. I am not saying one is better than the other. It just got me thinking about when I would settle down and work at one place for a stretch of time. My current job I only see myself staying for about 6-7 more months. I like the job, I like my coworkers, it just doesn’t seem like a long term job.

Recently, I updated my resume because it was about to expire. Starting from the day I updated it, I received calls every day for almost two weeks. Not that all the calls wanted to hire me on the spot, but it was just nice to know the market was ‘hot’ and there were opportunities elsewhere. It is always nice to be wanted.

Maybe in the IT profession, gone are the days of our fathers who worked 1 or 2 jobs 20 years at each job. It seems like, ‘greed is good’ and that employers do not treat employees well and employees have no loyalties to employers anymore. All I know is that I look for the job with the right balance of work and home where I am challenged and paid well. I realize no one really likes working, but we have to work to pay the bills, so you might as well go to a job you can be happy at or move on and try some place else. Sometimes the grass is greener, sometimes….oops…I thought it was greener.