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‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined
Nguyen previously wrote a guest post in Business Insider that detailed his post-graduation move from New York City to Seattle for a tech job and how it “turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.”
Anyway. Yeah, if I’m looking at a candidate and see they had three jobs in three years, that’s a minus. Are they insufferable and they’re being fired? Are they actually bad at their job? Even if they are good at their job, are they going to stick around here long enough to be worth the resources spent onboarding them?
It’s a risky move.
Would be better if employers made more effort to retain people, but here we are.
I live in Seattle and honestly have never experienced any freeze at all. Maybe it’s because I’m queer or maybe it’s because I have good social skills, but I have had no issue integrating myself with the community here and have made lots of friends. Seattle responds well to those who put themselves out there and aren’t republican weirdos.
In my experience, you can only make friends through work or through shared activities like skiing or the knitting club. Otherwise people aren’t interested in you. If you’re super active, then you’ll have tons of friends. If you’re an introvert, you’re probably better off somewhere else.
I’m just glad I have a name for what I’d also agree was the single most lonely time of my own life, hunkered-down in a North Seattle apartment for 18 months before bailing on my green card and h1 and going back to Vancouver.
Because the weather wasn’t the issue; but I’d suggest improving the rail transit and rolling the shitty moldy wet-wood lowboy apartments into something more dense to allow for beneficial green-space. This emerald city needs a little more greenery!
But transit and greenery may be a little avant-garde for a country still undecided on the issue of felons as kings :-\
I wanted to thank you for sharing your experience and make sure to validate you in this, because it really sounds very difficult to go through. Hopefully things are doing better for you recently.
People in Seattle are seriously the coldest mofos you’ve ever encountered. They really don’t want anything to do with anything outside their bubble. As a result, the only way to make friends is to share activities like sports or whatever.
Sounds like The Seattle Freeze.
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Anyway. Yeah, if I’m looking at a candidate and see they had three jobs in three years, that’s a minus. Are they insufferable and they’re being fired? Are they actually bad at their job? Even if they are good at their job, are they going to stick around here long enough to be worth the resources spent onboarding them?
It’s a risky move.
Would be better if employers made more effort to retain people, but here we are.
Yes, however recruiters see someone like this and see a great opportunity to fill their quota, so it all balances out.
I live in Seattle and honestly have never experienced any freeze at all. Maybe it’s because I’m queer or maybe it’s because I have good social skills, but I have had no issue integrating myself with the community here and have made lots of friends. Seattle responds well to those who put themselves out there and aren’t republican weirdos.
In my experience, you can only make friends through work or through shared activities like skiing or the knitting club. Otherwise people aren’t interested in you. If you’re super active, then you’ll have tons of friends. If you’re an introvert, you’re probably better off somewhere else.
I found most of my Seattle peeps by going to recurring events, and going to the same places a lot
I’m just glad I have a name for what I’d also agree was the single most lonely time of my own life, hunkered-down in a North Seattle apartment for 18 months before bailing on my green card and h1 and going back to Vancouver.
Because the weather wasn’t the issue; but I’d suggest improving the rail transit and rolling the shitty moldy wet-wood lowboy apartments into something more dense to allow for beneficial green-space. This emerald city needs a little more greenery!
But transit and greenery may be a little avant-garde for a country still undecided on the issue of felons as kings :-\
I wanted to thank you for sharing your experience and make sure to validate you in this, because it really sounds very difficult to go through. Hopefully things are doing better for you recently.
People in Seattle are seriously the coldest mofos you’ve ever encountered. They really don’t want anything to do with anything outside their bubble. As a result, the only way to make friends is to share activities like sports or whatever.
How’s it risky? Normally you secure the next job before quitting.
It’s risky to the employer.
This proof fails when n>2.