Ask Slashdot: How Often Should You Change Jobs? 282
An anonymous reader writes "We all know somebody who changes jobs like changing clothes. In software development and IT, it's getting increasingly hard to find people who have been at their job for more than a few years. That's partly because of tech companies' bias for a young work force, and partly because talented people can write their own ticket in this industry. Thus, I put the question to you: how often should you be switching jobs? Obviously, if you find the perfect company (full of good people, doing interesting things, paying you well), your best bet is to stay. But that's not the reality for most of the workforce. Should you always be keeping an eye out for new jobs? Is there a length of time you should stick around so you don't look like a serial job-hopper? Does there come a point in life when it's best to settle down and stick with a job long term?"
Re:same job, 12 years (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I did desktop support too.
Change Jobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Once every 56 years?
Too soon?
Re:Every day (Score:2, Funny)
Wow, tons of valuable life experience there. And still basically no curmudgeon in you, at least not that really comes through in your writing.
You have certainly earned the right to tell me to get off your lawn (and I'm at an age where I sometimes find myself thinking, "Hey you little whippersnappers...")