I’ve noticed a lot of people I went to school with (both high school and college), moved out of state for their jobs. I’m sort of neutral on it. I would move, but I don’t have a yearning to move. I’ve (thankfully!) never had a problem finding a job in my home state.
Would you move for a job? Poll coming.
After three years of temp jobs I’d move anywhere. Obviously Chicago doesn’t want me 
I can’t move far because I am divorced with young children and it is prohibited in the divorce agreement even I wanted to. However, I work in high-tech consulting and it isn’t unusual for people in my field to live in one place and work in another place hundreds or thousands of miles away. You have to fly out late Sunday night and generally get back late Thursday night but I would consider doing that for a while if I needed to. If I didn’t have kids, I would move some place better anyway job or no job.
I’m married. No kids, but we’ve got three dogs.
In the past eight years we’ve moved from Texas, to Oregon, to Washington, to Maryland- all for my job. So, yeah.
I’m moving from Detroit to China in July, and I have a family. Granted it’s with my same Detroit (area)-based company, but it’s a move all the same.
I was mobile as a kid, and mobile in the military, and I don’t mind being mobile now. Home is always home, after all. I suppose, though, that the difference is that I always know (or at least expect) that I’ll be returning home, rather than staying the rest of my life in some non-home place.
Done it twice in 8 years. I’ll do it again, too.
Two years ago I moved half way across the country for a job. I regret doing it. I didn’t really want to leave in the first place, and it wasn’t somewhere I would have picked to move to. If not for getting the “once in a lifetime” offer two months I would have moved back a month ago. The experience I’m getting at my new job is just worth too much to justify leaving. Maybe I’ll reconsider in a year or so.
TLDR version: I did before, but I wouldn’t again.
I’ve moved across country and to the other side of the planet for jobs. It’s exhausting.
Would and did. They told me to come for an interview, but be prepared to stay because it was likely I’d be hired (I was). I would probably go again, but it would be a lot more complicated than just packing up my car now.
Sorry you’re not happy with your current situation. Hopefully, you’ll be in a location you like in the near future.
I moved right out of graduate school since there were no jobs at home. I would have moved practically anywhere at that time in my life.
Now I’m old, and I’ve owned my own business for 10 years. I’ve gotten used to being my own boss, so I don’t think I’d move for a job. Plus, I’d never get my husband to move either.
I’m from the tail-end of the older generation that doesn’t job-hop every few years. Hell, at 39, I’m probably the very, very last of that generation. Job-hopping is normal and somewhat expect these days, and even at career companies like mine, we still job-hop; it’s just that it’s within the same company.
The point is, don’t be afraid/disgusted to move for a job if your mindset is that it’s only going to be for a few years, if it advances your career. Hell, I mentioned above that I’m moving to China. It’s most definitely not somewhere I would have picked to move to. But in your own words, “the ‘once in a lifetime’ offer” and “[t]he experience [you’re] getting at [your] new job is just worth too much to justify leaving” really says it all.
I fully expect to have to move for my next job, and likely the one after that. How far, I don’t know: An opening could come up just about anywhere. The only place in the English-speaking world I’ve ruled out is the Los Angeles area.
After that, though, I should have enough job security/stability to stay put for the rest of my life, which should be enough that any kids that I have won’t have to change schools due to moves.
I’m curious, why?
As for me, I said no, but then I’ve been on disability for a long time now and will never likely have a another job again.
If were able to work, would you move for work? Would your disablity limit you from moving?
If you know of an opening for a mainframe systems programmer in Paris… I would move tomorrow.
I hope so too. Despite the tone of my last post, I really enjoy the work I do now, and am really just trying to make the best of it for everything else.
I guess you could say if I didn’t move out here I never would stumbled onto my current job. I hope your transition to China goes well!
I have moved all over the US for work (NC, IN, MI, WI, MD) and think I am the better person for it. Living in different places allows you to learn things you never would if you stay put all your life.
Absolutely. Would have left for New York a few years ago but the company couldn’t show me the money. Still considering a move to Los Angeles but fell into a decent gig in Philly so I’ll hang with it for a while longer. But Philly is starting to get stale after 12 years.
I would only leave Chicago if it were a dream creative job that offered six figures and all the time off I wanted to come back to Chicago as much as I could.
Anybody know of an opening like that?
Besides President of the United States?