Could you describe your best experience of switching jobs?
Maybe you increased your pay rate, met awesome co-workers, liked the environment, tech-stack, and culture way better, and get other bonuses?
Or maybe you were lucky enough to improve on all of them?
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I'm switching job right now, signed the contract already and start on November 16th.
The salary is good, can't really compare it to the previous because I'm moving from Berlin to Paris.
What is the key I think is that this time I did lots of introspection, I reflected on my career so far and thought about what made me happy and not happy in my previous experiences, so I knew exactly what I wanted!
"Know thyself" is a super power, focus on that, not on learning a new JavaScript framework!
Congratulations, do you happen to speak French AND German?
French, German, English, Spanish, Japanese and Italian
Damn that’s impressive!
Last year I was moved into a new role due to an internal re-org. My old team was being dissolved (not for anything bad; my then-manager and her manager were leaving the company and they couldn't find a suitable replacement), so we were moved into another organization. It also came with a career change: I was a content strategist in DevRel and was moved into a technical program manager role on an engineering team.
There was a HUGE learning curve associated with the change; while I had project management experience, I never worked on an engineering team in this capacity at all. I did not have engineering PM experience and I had to pick up everything on the job. My manager was very transparent: he said the learning curve would be steep, and that it would take at least six months to get comfortable. I also found myself missing the old work that I did. I wasn't sure if the role was for me.
But in the spring, things changed. I hit my six months and realized I knew more about what I was doing than I thought. I started seeing a lot of positive traction from the work I was doing, and the engineering team actually started adopting practices that I created specifically for my programs. It was incredibly validating. I've learned an incredible amount and there's still much more to learn. I'm never bored and I work with really hardworking and patient people. I love my team.
So I've decided to continue down the TPM path and want to remain in TPM roles in the future. It happened by accident and I'm so glad I stuck it out. :)
Thanks for sharing 🙏❤
This question isn't necessarily about software development :) Before changing careers, from finance to programming, I used to work in various finance roles in multinationals. I changed jobs every 2-3-4 -5 year (depending on the case) and chose the highest challenge always. But, even if I learnt a lot with the increasing level of challenges, sometimes the stress wasn't worth it. Last year I stopped working in finance, I am a SD contractor now and plan to go to a full time job in the next weeks. Working in software is much less stressful until now vs my finance roles.
Once for pay, once because i had a teammate who was abusive, which ultimately doubled my salary....and then i took a pay cut to come to europe for quality of life.
Ps. needed to blow some steam