For the people that have 5+ jobs, how long are you staying at each job. I'm on job 2 in a 2 years, and approaching stab my eyes out boredom level again.

3/20/2015 1:17:26 PM

My first one dates back to 1998. I typically stay at any job for several years, although the one with the Pyscho IT Director only lasted a few months.

3/20/2015 1:31:22 PM

^^ you start changing jobs annually and you'll stop getting hired at new ones..

3/20/2015 1:40:30 PM

Yea thats my fear, I'm thinking I'll stay in current position for another year or two. (Got a big enough raise from the first to second to be satisfied on salary for a couple years)

I'm BORED, I've become a expert on LS engines with all the free time I have here. We are a week into an iteration(Iterations are usually 3 weeks) and the managers are still designing. #BULLSHIT

And MEETINGS, we have meetings to discuss when to have meetings.

3/20/2015 1:52:10 PM

Three. Not counting internship and minimum wage summer jobs for spending money. Does grad school count as a job?
1. A 3 year grant funded position ran out.
2. After 7 years, boss accepted a position at another university. Didn't want to relocate to Houston, TX.
3. Fired.

3/20/2015 1:56:27 PM

Because I bought in to the idea that the grass was greener.

3/20/2015 3:47:31 PM

Because my direct supervisor was a bully, a sycophant, and an idiot. The company itself had also lost any sense of corporate identity or coherent goal. Too much attempting to be all things to all people while slowly sinking into the shitter because they couldn't figure out what they really were.

It's gratifying to see how poorly they've done since I left, nothing to do with me, just makes it clear my assessment of their future was correct.

3/20/2015 5:16:24 PM

This might be off topic, but how far do you pad your resume? Specifically, I hadn't used a software since 2008-2009, but it's a software that I can easily get familiar with again. Would you mention this?

3/20/2015 5:59:07 PM

couldn't find the right job

3/20/2015 6:29:28 PM

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"Is that 15 jobs quit, Mindstorm?"

No, it's about seven, some of which were just internships or college jobs. I just broke apart the different reasons. I have left three professional jobs in six years.

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"do what?"

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"wat? this has post hoc fallacy written all over it."

I went to measure something on some marine equipment (a big floating steel truss sitting in a river with a wooden deck which is about 75'x130' and ~11' tall with 2/3 of that being submerged) because I was working with an engineer on a project and she said I had to go measure something. I was new to the group and didn't know anything about the equipment besides the above and went to measure what I needed to measure. When I stepped out from one of the main stringers onto one of the deck boards, the board gave way and my big step forward jammed my foot straight into a steel buoyancy tank (which was about 2 ft below the deck). I fell down hard enough to be dazed for a couple minutes and knocked my glasses off my face (broke a nice watch too ).

I got out of there and reported it and no official safety forms were filed regarding the incident, though I did go out there with a site safety supervisor to point out where it happened and what I was tasked with (who then took action to keep anybody from accessing the equipment again). I had no idea anybody would ever be crazy enough to put untreated lumber on something that sits in the water for years and was sure it would be pretreated like any other deck or waterfront boardwalk or something.

Over the next two weeks my ankle swelled and hurt to walk on and I iced it each night, still just a dumb kid out of college thinking it wasn't a big deal. The same ankle flares up from time to time while my left ankle is fine doing the same activity. No fallacy here, I just got injured being a dumb kid and also being a broke kid who didn't go see a doctor afterward.

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"i love the random legalese you interject"

Sorry, I'm just trying to explain stuff in line with professional ethical standards for engineers. I could just say "we did things that were wrong" but, given that I'm a structural engineer, committing regular ethical violations to make it look like a structure is in line with the building code means lying to overload a structure to make more money off of it.

And look at that. Just look at that. I touched the poop. Should have just left you all in suspense.

[Edited on March 21, 2015 at 1:17 PM. Reason : hmm]

3/21/2015 1:16:36 PM