In marketing, I worked at 4 different jobs over 11 years, with a break for grad school.
In software development, it's more complicated.
- First job was for a little more than a year.
- Second job was for a few months before being laid off.
- Then I started working on the project where I am now, and I've been here for 11 years. But during that time, I've had 5 different employers. The first one hired me, then lost the contract and laid us all off, but the company that won the contract hired us all immediately. That company has since been bought out 4 times.
I hate the current owner -- they're really cheap and they claim their compensation policies are designed to reward the best workers, but in reality they're encouraging the best workers to leave. I can't figure out if they're just lying to us and hoping we don't notice that no one will ever get a raise, or if they're too stupid to figure out that their policies will never accomplish their goals. Anyway I like the project I work on so I'm hoping we get sold again soon.
BTW on my resume, I leave out most of the marketing stuff and just condense it into a couple of bullet points that highlight things most relevant to software development (data processing and analysis). It's not necessary to include details that aren't related to whatever you're applying for.
Last edited by ny biker; 11-21-2011 at 07:48 AM.
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