Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking
Steven Smith posted this very intelligent article:
Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking.
But do take heed to his warning! Just a couple years ago I was working for a "Manager" who called me into his office and was very upset that I had posted my resume on
Monster.com.
Even after I explained to him that my resume had been on there for a long time and I had just recently had to update my contact information on it, he still took offense as if I was stabbing him in the back or something.
Ironically, just as Steven points out, there were many others reasons aside that would just a short time later really bring home the fact that I was "better off to be rid of them"!
I would never let this risk prevent you from doing the leg work necessary to keep up with the current market, if for nothing more than the networking contacts.
You owe it to your family and your career to be aware of any possible opportunity that could benefit either.
Even though, 9 times out of 10, my current position is the best one for me or I wouldn't be there.
The loyalty factor has to come from both parties and it was proven to me many years ago that even though I believed that was the case and turned down many potential opportunities, you can still wake up right before Christmas with the added worries of looking for another position. I was told that I was lucky to have not been "Laid Off" and was quoted every excuse from the economy to the weather, but that doesn't help a 30% pay decrease look any better.
In my opinion, the really sad part to this story was not the fact that I had to become extra motivated to get out of my bad situation, but the fact that another developer that was in almost the exact same position as I was placed in, just sat there and "grinned and bared it". Ironically, he is still there to this day! Even though this company showed him, myself, and others virtually no respect. He was so unmotivated that he never even really tried to find a better situation.
Don't let yourself fall victim to that type of situation!
Stay motivated! Stay productive! Stay hungry!
Comment Notification
If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here
Subscribe to this post's comments using
Comments
Leave a Comment
About dwalker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.
His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.
After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.
Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.
He is the current President of the
Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.