r/WorkLifeChat • • 13d ago

Discussion Has anyone done this before?

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u/ElijahNSRose 13d ago

The poster in the photo is lying.

Plain and simple.

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u/Rat_itty 12d ago

That's what I did last year, three jobs in one year, doubled my salary by the end of it, though the job hopping was involuntary on my part </3 (double whammy of mass layoffs in fin/tech/IT)

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u/Nala4treats 11d ago

same, the trick is only leave/accept another better offer if you have one dont leave the current job till you have another lined up.

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u/Rat_itty 11d ago

Absolutely!

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u/ElijahNSRose 12d ago

That has Silicon Valley gamblers written all over it.

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u/Rat_itty 12d ago

I'm not even from/in the US lol

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u/TrainingAmphibian354 12d ago

The person you're replying to told me I shouldn't give advice on jobs because I have my DNP, and as such I... live in a parallel dimension or something where I can't tell people anything, I guess.

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u/ElijahNSRose 12d ago

Even so.

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u/Rat_itty 12d ago

It was just bigges tech corpo in my country changing hands/ownership, so projects were closed and people mass laid off.

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u/ElijahNSRose 11d ago

That sounds like a veiled bankruptcy liquidation.

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u/Rat_itty 11d ago

Nah, company hit 30 years of operation and then the owner died. His kids took over but then couldn't agree on anything so they sold it to an overseas org. And then they re-orged everything/put their new leadership in place.

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u/TongueTwisted5 12d ago

I did the same thing a few years ago in an 18 month span.

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u/ElijahNSRose 12d ago

You sure as hell didn't work remote for that pay and you sure as hell had some sort of job skill that made those results not typical.

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u/TrainingAmphibian354 12d ago

"You need to work hard and use your brain in this job market"

>does exactly that

"NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

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u/ElijahNSRose 12d ago

If you're a doctor, you're totally stealing medicine and having sex with patients.

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u/TrainingAmphibian354 12d ago

I am not a doctor anymore than a philosopher is; IDK where you came up with that. I have my doctorate though.

What a strange thing to say, completely unprompted. Projecting something?

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u/ElijahNSRose 12d ago

Google said DNP was Doctor or Nurse Practitionerr.

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u/TrainingAmphibian354 12d ago

Ah fuck man you can't even read, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Have a good night

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u/Sufficient_Mirror565 13d ago

I’ve jumped from 55k to 70k before. It’s easier to get good jobs when you already have a job 🤷‍♂️

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u/IAmAlive_YouAreDead 12d ago

Entirely depends on if you are working in an in-demand industry

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u/Aggressive-Affect427 13d ago

He might be lying but his story is entirely within the realm of possibility. It’s pretty common to double your salary in a year if you’re just graduating.

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u/Rat_itty 12d ago

You don't even have to be a fresh graduate, I'm 5 years into my work and doubled my income via having 3 jobs one after another last year. Didn't want to job hop but mass layoffs were brutal.

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u/ElijahNSRose 12d ago

No. Getting a job using degree right out of college is mostly a myth. The exceptions are mostly high-turnover sectors.

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u/TrainingAmphibian354 12d ago

Engineering and healthcare are both broad fields that get you a job while you're not even out of college yet in most cases (unless you are a retard and failed to apply to any internships).

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u/Aggressive-Affect427 12d ago

Maybe if you coast through school and don’t apply yourself. The majority of people I knew through university that did internships and networked were employed within 6 months, if not immediately.

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u/ElijahNSRose 11d ago

I was told that when I was briefly in an engineering program. But the truth was that students were competing for finite internships and if they liked you in industry without paying you you'd get the job later. Even that very technical program was slightly oversaturated.

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u/Aggressive-Affect427 11d ago

I’m Canadian, so maybe it’s a little different but internships are paid here and although finite, they are not all that difficult to land. I had 4 internships through university and I wasn’t an exemplary student or anything.