# Job hopping - value or not?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 17, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628 "2016-06-17T18:16:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/21 "2016-06-19T17:07:14Z")

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> [@Pantastic](#):
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> I am fascinated by the blame-shifting that happens in some narratives of the business world. Somehow, it’s not businesses treating employees like crap as a matter of policy that’s responsible for the idea of ‘employer loyalty’ becoming more and more of a joke, it’s those damn kids today with their smart phones and refusal to eat cereal. Companies making raises, promotions, and training hard to get, striving to pay ‘industry average’ salaries, abusing ‘salaried’ to get people to work 60+ hours a week, using technology to take away even more personal time (‘why didn’t you answer that email after hours?’), while being ready to conduct mass layoffs if it improves stock prices is not something the younger generation scrambling for entry-level jobs has no influence over.

That’s very true. Companies reap what they sow. Beyond an ironclad contract why should you be foolishly loyal?

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/22 "2016-06-19T17:27:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Dr. Strangelove]  
It certainly depends on the field. In my corner of the software industry, someone who has been at the job for \<2 years is effectively a junior engineer–regardless of how much experience they started with. It’s just not possible to learn enough about the system in much less time than that to be a truly effective engineer.

I would be skeptical of someone jumping around every year because I’d be concerned they’d never “pay off” the investment put into them (if you add up all the effort needed to being a new engineer up to speed, they’re probably a net negative for at least the first year).

But we’re largely focused on systems software, and value solid C/C++ skills and deep systems knowledge over knowing the latest web language.  
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You could be me. Just swap out Top Secret/RACF for C/C++ as mainframe security analysts are a pretty rare breed. Two years is a conservative minimum time to really understand the nuts and bolts of the systems and to mesh that with understanding security best practices and policies.

I’m right in the middle, tenure-wise at the company after being here for 15 years. People either churn in and out within a year, or they stick around for 40 years.

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**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/23 "2016-06-19T21:51:14Z")

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> [@kiz](#):
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> Believe me, I’ve paid my dues, my 50-60 hour weeks (which I still do when necessary). My current employer pays a damn good salary for what I do. Ergo, it’s in my best interest to make my employer happy with my skill set. My skill set as such is becoming rare; ergo, it’s also in my best interest to keep doing what I’m doing not just for my own financial gain, but also to pass on my skills.
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> What I’m discovering is that IN GENERAL, the younger generation isn’t interested. They don’t want to break their asses in a business which demands you break your ass every so often. We’ve fired people before for not stepping up. The threat doesn’t faze them.

Why should they be interested? What’s your offer, exactly, 'work your ass off for pathetic pay in the hopes that if you don’t get laid off you eventually will get paid decently, if you’re lucky and don’t ever end up on the wrong side of layoffs or a power struggle or a managers’s angry side? (Odds are you made significantly more money adjusted for inflation and student loan burden back when you were working long hours, even if you weren’t actually getting overtime pay.)

“Breaking your ass in a business” just sounds like a bad deal all around.

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> I don’t understand because back when I was their age and just starting out, I was petrified of being fired for being too slow; ergo, I taught myself to run circles around everybody.

Being petrified of being fired is stupid. Odds are it’s going to happen to you multiple times in a career, so anyone smart should just treat it as part of the process. Busting your ass for 60 hours a week to avoid the first round of layoffs is a pretty bad deal, especially if the 40 hour ‘lazy’ guy can find another job before the layoffs even hit. I would definitely advise anyone starting work now to expect to get the axe multiple times if they’re going into most kinds off work.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/24 "2016-06-19T22:24:59Z")

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> [@gotpasswords](#):
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> I’m right in the middle, tenure-wise at the company after being here for 15 years. People either churn in and out within a year, or they stick around for 40 years.

That’s quite a bit more than my job–our company has only existed for ~20 years! Still, we have a fair number at 15+ years and 5 would be a bare minimum to be considered senior unless they came with very similar experience. At any rate, software is a big industry and you can’t extrapolate from one sub-field. I probably sounded more dismissive than I meant when I said “latest web language”; there are good reasons why parts of the software industry move quickly, and good reasons why other parts don’t.

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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/25 "2016-06-19T22:31:44Z")

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I’m in software and the sweet spot seems to be 3.5 years at a job. Though in my specialty apparently nobody cares if you jump ship every 6 months. On the flip side, I’ll probably be unemployable by 50.

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**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/26 "2016-06-19T22:48:08Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> The reason you might be having trouble isn’t because you changed jobs frequently. You are a “doer”. You start your own businesses and consultancies. You’re not the sort of person to spend years riding a cubicle collecting your 3% raises for doing nothing. From my experience, large corporations often shy away from those sort of backgrounds because it’s difficult to quantify your skill sets into a specific cog they can plug into the organization. In spite of whatever marketing rhetoric they think they should post online, big corporations typically don’t need smart, entrepreneurial people to solve difficult problems. They need steady, reliable people to sit in a chair and carry out operationalized processes according to pre-established policies and procedures.
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> It’s also why these companies hire armies of temps, contractors, freelancers and consultants (both independent and from large firms). Part of it is cost savings obviously. But a lot of it is that the mopes they have working for them can’t really change.
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> Someone with your background would be better off looking at smaller, more entrepreneurial firms and startups.

Thanks. The problems with startups and entrepreneurial groups is they are hard to find. Most of my network is in the oil field and no one is hiring any one right now.

Where people tend to want things to get done is at the senior levels once you get above cog status and that’s tough to get without the underlying experience. I’ve actually got an interview with Alcoa this week they actually said I don’t have any of the experience they are looking for for this role but they like that I can understand engineering and business and that I’m obviously a doer.

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/27 "2016-06-19T22:59:31Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> I can’t determine if it’s an impatience on their part to want that next job sooner than their employer believes they are ready, or is it a way to compensate for poorer performance and the next fool (employer) will have to figure it out?

It’s interesting that you don’t even consider that it’s something about the environment/employers/workplaces.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/28 "2016-06-20T01:22:34Z")

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> [@Pantastic](#):
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> Why should they be interested? What’s your offer, exactly, 'work your ass off for pathetic pay in the hopes that if you don’t get laid off you eventually will get paid decently, if you’re lucky and don’t ever end up on the wrong side of layoffs or a power struggle or a managers’s angry side? (Odds are you made significantly more money adjusted for inflation and student loan burden back when you were working long hours, even if you weren’t actually getting overtime pay.)
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> “Breaking your ass in a business” just sounds like a bad deal all around.

Agreed. “Breaking your ass” makes sense if you are a first year analyst at Goldman Sachs on a path for six figure bonuses in a few years. It even made sense at one consulting firm I worked for where we were getting big raises and promotions every year and got paid for extra hours worked.

But honestly, the old “pay your dues” model where the big firms dangle that carrot in front of you where if you bust your ass for 15 years, they might make you partner is bullshit for all but a few.

And that’s really the problem. This “all or nothing” “up or out” mentality. Because once people realize they aren’t one of the “chosen few”, they decide pretty quickly that the extra effort isn’t worth it.

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**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/29 "2016-06-20T02:26:06Z")

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> [@](#):
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> What I’m discovering is that IN GENERAL, the younger generation isn’t interested. They don’t want to break their asses in a business which demands you break your ass every so often. We’ve fired people before for not stepping up. The threat doesn’t faze them.
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> I don’t understand because back when I was their age and just starting out, I was petrified of being fired for being too slow; ergo, I taught myself to run circles around everybody.

Because there is no EMPLOYER loyalty to employees anymore. If you bust your butt, they’ll still lay you off whenever it suits them. They aren’t going to reward you with regular raises, promotions, and a pension the way they used to. Some places regularly “reorganize” in order to lay off everyone who has been there a while in order to get a new crop of employees willing to work at entry-level pay.

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**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/30 "2016-06-20T02:47:29Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Agreed. “Breaking your ass” makes sense if you are a first year analyst at Goldman Sachs on a path for six figure bonuses in a few years. It even made sense at one consulting firm I worked for where we were getting big raises and promotions every year and got paid for extra hours worked.

In my industry breaking one’s ass is a given. It’s the nature of the business. It’ll be interesting to see how the model shifts in the next few years, given that the model is falling out of favor.

> [@](#):
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> But honestly, the old “pay your dues” model where the big firms dangle that carrot in front of you where if you bust your ass for 15 years, they might make you partner is bullshit for all but a few.

Again, depends on the industry. If you put in the time, persevere, and prove your worth, you will be rewarded. I’ve always believed that and I still do. If the rug gets pulled out from under me, I’ll stand corrected. But part of me will still believe it.

> [@](#):
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> And that’s really the problem. This “all or nothing” “up or out” mentality. Because once people realize they aren’t one of the “chosen few”, they decide pretty quickly that the extra effort isn’t worth it.

I must be the odd duck. I’ve never thought this way in any job I’ve had. Not being one of the “chosen few” gave me incentive to work harder.

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**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/31 "2016-06-20T09:45:08Z")

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> [@octopus](#):
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> That’s very true. Companies reap what they sow. Beyond an ironclad contract why should you be foolishly loyal?

Companies aren’t really expecting employees to be loyal. It is by design. The financial incentives to stay with a company have dwindled. Most people use to get stock options that couldn’t be exercised until after being with the company for X number of years, which was a retention incentive. They took that away. So it use to be, you go to work for a company, they gave you stock options so you stayed with the company at least until you could exercise them. However, the company would grant you additional options each year, which also weren’t exercisable until years away too. This was a way to keep the employees. With that gone, you have to ask yourself why stay with the company especially if the only way to get a good raise is to leave the company. 401(k) matching is OK, and I mean, just OK, but stock options really mattered.

You can also see the way companies now invest in training and such for employees, they have cut this down because they don’t want to pay for a Master’s degree for an employee who is going to leave the company for a better position once they graduate. It use to be it was an automatic benefit, and now it requires upper management to sign-off on paying for the degree if they even support this at all.

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**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/32 "2016-06-20T09:46:59Z")

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> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#):
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> I’m in software and the sweet spot seems to be 3.5 years at a job. Though in my specialty apparently nobody cares if you jump ship every 6 months. On the flip side, I’ll probably be unemployable by 50.

I work in software. It greatly depends on if you have done two things: Kept up with the latest buzzwords and have specialized in some niche part of an industry coupled with the software experience.

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**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/33 "2016-06-20T10:13:27Z")

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> [@edwardcoast](#):
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> Companies aren’t really expecting employees to be loyal. It is by design. The financial incentives to stay with a company have dwindled. Most people use to get stock options that couldn’t be exercised until after being with the company for X number of years, which was a retention incentive. They took that away. So it use to be, you go to work for a company, they gave you stock options so you stayed with the company at least until you could exercise them. However, the company would grant you additional options each year, which also weren’t exercisable until years away too. This was a way to keep the employees. With that gone, you have to ask yourself why stay with the company especially if the only way to get a good raise is to leave the company. 401(k) matching is OK, and I mean, just OK, but stock options really mattered.

There are still a couple of locally-based companies in my industry which do this. One of these companies had a walkout a couple of years ago in response to the company being in merger talks with a competitor owned by a conglomerate. The reason? Employees were petrified that, if the merger went through, they’d lose everything. The merger talks were suspended as a result.

Promotion in these companies are within and they have many, many MANY longtime employees. So, yeah, if anything upsets the apple cart, there will be hell to pay.

My former employer was one of these companies, btw. It was bought out. Yes, I was laid off, but I lucked into my current position at a much higher salary because of my skill set, which I’ve said is becoming rare. My current employer is currently in merger talks with a competitor. If it goes through, I’m not sure what’s going to happen to either myself or my fellow longtime employees.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/34 "2016-06-20T10:27:43Z")

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I know a company that used to have that kind of sweet setup. No, sweeter. Benefits such as “vacation resorts for employees, retirees and their families” or “home maintenance done by employer”. Some of the workers from those golden years, along with their siblings, and their children and grandchildren, have rarely paid for a hotel and never called a plumber.

Nowadays the majority of the people working for that company do not officially work for it, but either for some subsidiary which does not have the benefits, or are theoretically self-employed. Call your own plumber.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/35 "2016-06-20T11:34:18Z")

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I think you have to understand the nature of the corporate world. For rank and file workers, there is often little value in staying at any place for more than a few years. Industries and technologies change over time and chances are, whatever you are doing now will be irrelevant or at least very different in 5 years. Even if your company is slow to change, maybe that buys you an extra 5 years, after which you are now looking for work with skills that are even more obsolete. That’s the reason there are so many contractors and freelancers these days. Yes, cost plays a part. But a bigger reason is that it gives companies a greater flexibility to work on specific projects and then release those resources.

It’s a different story once you get to management level. If you want to continue to advance in your career, you need longevity. The longer you stay at a company, the more you understand about it’s products, strategy and processes. The more connections you have at that company. Managers and executives also work on plans that span years.  
So I would say job hopping has a value if done strategically. Companies will forgive one or two jumps after a year. But more than that, they will certainly wonder why you either can’t keep a job or can’t find a place that’s a good fit. They might hire you, but chances are you will be relegated to a transitory role or project that no one else wants to do and may find yourself looking for a new job in a year again.  
If you are going to job hop, there should be some purpose to it. Just changing industries or companies every year looks flakey.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/36 "2016-06-20T13:05:24Z")

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This has been enlightening for me. I had assumed that within certain industries and capabilities, that job hopping would be more necessary for fulfillment and advancement. So confirmation of that was great.

> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> It’s interesting that you don’t even consider that it’s something about the environment/employers/workplaces.

I’m sure that is the case, but you still have to question the person that over a 15 year period that jumped 7 times, if it was because of environment, etc. then he/she is horrible at determining what’s a good environment for them. Interviewing is a two way street.

> [@msmith537](#):
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> It’s a different story once you get to management level. If you want to continue to advance in your career, you need longevity. The longer you stay at a company, the more you understand about it’s products, strategy and processes. The more connections you have at that company. Managers and executives also work on plans that span years.  
> So I would say job hopping has a value if done strategically. Companies will forgive one or two jumps after a year. But more than that, they will certainly wonder why you either can’t keep a job or can’t find a place that’s a good fit. They might hire you, but chances are you will be relegated to a transitory role or project that no one else wants to do and may find yourself looking for a new job in a year again.  
> If you are going to job hop, there should be some purpose to it. Just changing industries or companies every year looks flakey.

Most of the candidates I am interviewing are at the management level. I’ve even interviewed CEO’s for a subsidiary level, that had CEO experience for 10 years, but had jumped every 2 years. With the prevalence of private equity ownership of companies for 4-7 years, this phenomena is becoming more frequent.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/37 "2016-06-20T13:37:25Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> I think you have to understand the nature of the corporate world. For rank and file workers, there is often little value in staying at any place for more than a few years. Industries and technologies change over time and chances are, whatever you are doing now will be irrelevant or at least very different in 5 years…  
> It’s a different story once you get to management level. If you want to continue to advance in your career, you need longevity. The longer you stay at a company, the more you understand about it’s products, strategy and processes. The more connections you have at that company. Managers and executives also work on plans that span years.

Your definitions seem to be forgetting the group that’s most likely to stay put: the true rank and file workers who will rarely if ever get any kind of promotion and who often aren’t even interested in one. You know, those people who think that jeans and a T-shirt is “posh”?

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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/38 "2016-06-20T13:45:02Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> This has been enlightening for me. I had assumed that within certain industries and capabilities, that job hopping would be more necessary for fulfillment and advancement. So confirmation of that was great.
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> I’m sure that is the case, but you still have to question the person that over a 15 year period that jumped 7 times, if it was because of environment, etc. then he/she is horrible at determining what’s a good environment for them.

But it appears you are saying that a high percentage of people are coming through with these job hopping resumes. I always find that when that starts to happen, maybe I’ll the one who is out of synch. Maybe the world is changing so that it simply makes sense with more careers to behave that way. It seems you really really want this to be a resume flaw, but if it becomes more and more prevalent, maybe it points to a structural shift.

(My industry has lots of churning, so it doesn’t strike me as anything weird.)

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**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/39 "2016-06-20T14:13:32Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Agreed. “Breaking your ass” makes sense if you are a first year analyst at Goldman Sachs on a path for six figure bonuses in a few years. It even made sense at one consulting firm I worked for where we were getting big raises and promotions every year and got paid for extra hours worked.

Right, I’m not saying there are literally no jobs where it makes sense to bust your ass, but the vast majority of jobs, especially entry-level jobs are not on track for six figure bonuses and you aren’t even getting paid for working lots of extra hours. In case it’s not clear to anyone, I certainly believe that there are good jobs out there and jobs where it makes sense to knock yourself out, just that there are vastly more that aren’t.

> [@kiz](#):
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> Again, depends on the industry. If you put in the time, persevere, and prove your worth, you will be rewarded. I’ve always believed that and I still do. If the rug gets pulled out from under me, I’ll stand corrected. But part of me will still believe it.

What do you base this on - is the company contractually obligated to do it in some way, or is it just wishful thinking? That conditional is so filled with weasel clauses it’s completely meaningless - if someone isn’t getting rewarded and leaves, they obviously didn’t persevere and put in the time. If someone gets laid off or fired, regardless of the actual reason you can just say they didn’t prove their worth. It sounds something a person in an abusive romantic relationship would say about that relationship.

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**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/job-hopping-value-or-not/757628/40 "2016-06-20T15:16:26Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> I’m sure that is the case, but you still have to question the person that over a 15 year period that jumped 7 times, if it was because of environment, etc. then he/she is horrible at determining what’s a good environment for them. Interviewing is a two way street.

7 jobs in fifteen years will depend a lot on what those jobs are.

7 jobs at 2.3 years each? Hmm.

3 jobs at a year each, 2 at two years, one three year and the last was 4 years? Zero problem with that.

One ten year job followed by six jobs of less than a year? Bad sign.

six jobs of less than a year followed by one ten year job? Probably also a bad sign because they’re out of date.

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