[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 11:37:18 EST 2008


job-hopping every couple weeks or months? no
keeping one's options open for strategic/tactical career moves? absolutely

WMM

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
> > On Friday 21 November 2008 09:44:05 am Robert Dale wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be expected that the jobs list would have few subscribers?
> >>  A jobs list is transient.  Employed people wouldn't normally
> >> subscribe to such a list.  Unemployed people would be subscribed only
> >> while remaining unemployed; they wouldn't continue to be subscribed
> >> once they were employed.
> >
> > An employed person never knows when an even better job will pop up. And
> you
> > just stated another benefit of putting it in the main list -- if you were
> > employed and on the jobs list, your employer would find out you're
> "looking"
> > (as if we're not always looking).
>
> This is sort of like checking your stocks everyday and missing the big
> picture.  Really, are you going job hopping every week because some
> job looked 'better'?  Has no one here had a job longer than a couple
> of months?
>
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> Robert Dale
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