Time to update that resume. Found an amazing job that I want so much more than my current one.
But anyway to the point of this thread, what is the shortest amount of time you’ve been at a job before you applied for a new one? What is the shortest time you’ve spent at a company? Lets limit this to professional type jobs. I mean I once worked a place for 3 weeks in college…
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Well I was a trucker for an oil service company for 2 years before going back to university. I didn’t plan on it, but I ended up back with the company in corporate as a summer student business analyst and am now starting in 2 weeks as a full time BA. so, 6.5 years? ha. worst part is they would have paid my tuition in full if I had only asked and promised to return for 2 years after graduating, which I had no intention of at the time. too bad I never realized what the job market was going to be like :(
My company hired a MO manager who changed jobs after about 2 months. His new job is in the same company… so it’s a bit awkward..
“I’m a CPA! I got money b***h!”
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a new hire quit after 2 weeks .. this is not normal at an investment bank where you had to get through 6 rounds of interviews
>>don’t feel guilty about quitting.. get a new job and walk out just as easy as they would fire you
Yeah, it’s usually at will employment by both sides. If you sucked, they would fire you in a second. If they suck, feel free to “fire” them.
“I lost my wife to a margin call. Wives get mad when you come home and say, ‘Sweetheart, I lost the house today.’” - Dennis Gartman on trading mistakes
Since college, I’ve had 2 instances where I was at a job for less than 6 months. One was contract, the other I was let go from in 2009.
I think people are somewhat more understanding these days, but I figure I need at least 18 months to 2 years in my current gig before I could even start looking without being branded a job hopper.
Well once I got back to work this week, the job posting I saw kind of fell to the back of my mind. I also found out this week that my annual raise is 6%, effective next month so that makes me happier to be where I am…
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I agree with stratman, if I put less than ~2 years into a job I end up feeling like a quitter. But sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do though.
be thankful you got a raise, I know friends in finance that have had no raise for 3 years now
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