The average american changes their career every 7 years.
I didnt have hyp pegged as a 27 year old, either
7 years :(
But I own a good % of the company which now does 50MIL per yr in revenue - so hoefully someone will buy the fukker and i can retire soon.
what keeps you guys at your jobs, or wanting to stay for long periods of time?good pay, i've been moving up fast, it's given me a chance to do many things and i have low ambitions.
I'm 18 and I've been working at my job for almost 4 years now.
I haven't even been able to stay in the same industry for more than about four years before my current job. I was a chef for years, then worked as a prop maker for stop motion animation commercials, then worked as a programmer (for two months, and I had to quit because my boss kept getting stoned on a mattress on the floor while watching Star Trek...don't ask).you can't mention that and say "don't ask"
Now I'm happy as anything. I'm coming up to one year with the company, and can't even imagine myself doing anything else.
you can't mention that and say "don't ask"
explain
I'm 18 and I've been working at my job for almost 4 years now.
so when you were hired you would have looked about 8 years old then? :lolspoiler (click to show/hide)whats your job?[close]
:rofl :rofl :rofl :roflyou can't mention that and say "don't ask"
explain
Well, to be honest, that's about all there was to it. We worked in a spare room in his house - we were meant to be making an MMO with money that he'd sourced from a group of miners in the Australian outback. He was an ex-boyfriend of my sister, and we'd got talking at some party she'd had. I mentioned I wanted to break into 3D modelling (following on from my work in actual prop making) and he said he had a job as an assistant programmer going. I was like, 'huh?', but took it anyway. Diversification, and all that. Everything was great for the first few weeks: he was a fucking awesome programmer, and was teaching me some crazy shit. I learnt more about coding in those first three weeks than I had in two years of learning it back in high school.
The money dried up for a week or two, and then when I came back, there was a mattress on the floor of the "office", and he would just sit on it in a tracksuit, eating chocolate cheescake from its foil wrapper, smoking bongs and watching Voyager. And so I kinda stopped learning stuff.
Obviously, I'm all for getting paid to get stoned and watch shit on TV, but there's a point where it stops being awesome and just becomes a bit like, well, where is this getting me in the long term? So I quit, and started at my current job just a few weeks after.
That said, he always paid me on time. So...I don't know. It was really weird. Especially those track suit pants. Man, that was some creepy shit.
4 years and 6 months with the Gap (Gap, Gap Kids, and Baby Gap). :yuck
hyp, what do you do?
I've been doing this job in Japan for seven years - it's really varied (web design, web programming, unix work, print design), so I can flex lots of different skills. Also I can work from home regularly, my boss is awesome, and the pay's decent.
Before I came to Japan, I had a similar job for four years. I guess it's easier to stick in web dev jobs because the industry is always moving with new tech so you've got to keep learning new stuff. Also, since you have constant access to the web, and an excuse for surfing it, there's quite a big window for slacking.
Quotewhat keeps you guys at your jobs, or wanting to stay for long periods of time?
second job... which on any given day, you will get a different answer as to whether i like it or not. High stress, long hours, but never EVER the same. Constantly changing, constantly challenging, but yeah... sometimes your heart is in your mouth with fear. Financial industry... not good for the heart. In the end though, the excitement/fear actually becomes .... strangely enjoyable. One thing is for certain, this job will never get routine and straightforward. In the 7 years i've been here, it's been a rollercoaster. I guess though what keeps me here is that i'm in a particularly valuable niche - the skills needed for the job are pretty rare - and the pay is good / keeps me secure in Japan / promotion prospects / long term career prospects / potential need to pay a mortgage etc...