Moving on…
One of the facts of life for us IT folks is changing jobs. I joined the folks at my previous job after 10 years with 7 different firms. A little tired of the rat race, I stuck with them for just short of 8 years as a developer and development team leader - a personal record by all accounts.
Well, this weekend, I am unemployed, but it is a short break as I start with a local firm as CTO CIO VP (Update: the title thing is still being worked out) on Monday morning, bright and early!
I have often wondered what it is about the tech world and developers in particular where we change jobs faster than most people change cars. I have heard that the average IT/developer job lasts 18 months. I’m not sure if that is the limit of how long the average company is willing to put up with our geek ways or how long the average geek is willing to live under the rule of any one PHB.
I think the truth is that this is just more of the same: My baby-boomer peers (I was right at the tail end of the boom being born November of ‘64) changed jobs 10.8 times from 18 to 42. Career is now defined by what we choose to do and not by who we do it for. We have to take responsibility for our own training and professional development, shepherd our own retirement funds and insurances.
I don’t really have much of a point or conclusion to this little rant, just that I start a new adventure on Monday and I’m looking forward to it.
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