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Discussion on: What made you quit your job?

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John Darryl Pelingo

I quit my first job because the technologies used were just too old. There was no aspect of evolving my career. There was no care in the software we were crafting because the projects would last for just a couple of months. So it's your typical agency. I also discovered React after reading Dan Abramov's article about redux. And shortly after that, I found reactiflux. Through that community, I have learned that I have been doing things wrong the entire time. Thankfully, I found reactiflux at the beginning of my career. Lastly, the salary was too low.

I quit my second job because I wanted to know how work is in other countries. I lived in Greece and decided to move to Germany. It was something I wanted to do since my university days but was rejected initially for an internship due to not being an EU citizen at that time. Now that I am an EU citizen, more doors are even open for me.

So in the second case, nothing tipped me over the edge to quit. I just had an ambition that I wanted to fulfill, which I did! The future holds so many surprises!

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InnerC#ity

I took a really really high paying job at a regional bank where they promised me they were "moving forward". I get there and they are actively writing greenfield ASP classic code in 2017. I left after 6 months of trying to move everyone forward..