{"id":4105,"date":"2010-05-18T22:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2010-05-18T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:56:39","slug":"repost-why-engineers-hop-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/repost-why-engineers-hop-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: ::Why Engineers Hop Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Well I&#8217;m as unreliable, lazy, and entitled as the next guy, but  that&#8217;s not why I&#8217;ve hopped jobs in the past. People in my generation have a very low tolerance for bullshit, and software engineering, in general, is a very high bullshit career. If you couple that with the standard load of bullshit you would get from a non-technical Harvard MBA type boss \u2014 like many CEOs that you find trying to get rich in Silicon Valley by hiring some engineers to &#8220;code up this idea real quick&#8221; \u2014 it&#8217;s no wonder that a good engineer will walk off the job after his one year cliff vesting.<\/strong><br \/>\nAs an engineer, you are told that you&#8217;re &#8220;lucky to have a job&#8221;,  because there are &#8220;a hundred people lined up outside, ready to take it&#8221;. (As chance would have it, there are at least a thousand lined up to take the job of <em>rich prick who tells people what to do<\/em>). This backlash is the product of diseased thinking. A CEO who makes an engineer work 80 hours a week is a driven entrepreneur, but an engineer asking for a comfy chair is a prima donna. So, when we are up to our knees in golf-course, martini-lunch bullshit, don&#8217;t be surprised when we jump ship for a higher salary.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/teddziuba.com\/2010\/05\/why-engineers-hop-jobs.html\">Why Engineers Hop Jobs<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I&#8217;m as unreliable, lazy, and entitled as the next guy, but that&#8217;s not why I&#8217;ve hopped jobs in the past. People in my generation have a very low tolerance for bullshit, and software engineering, in general, is a very high bullshit career. If you couple that with the standard load of bullshit you would &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/repost-why-engineers-hop-jobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: ::Why Engineers Hop Jobs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,79,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-reposts","category-workcareer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}