Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I actually was in a big IT company, and you’d think that you’d be able to work in different teams and get different experiences, but sadly it’s not that easy in reality. With big companies you typically have too much red tape to wade thru when changing teams, each team acts like their own isolated unit and they don’t really work well together. Also, the higher up you are in your role, the harder it becomes to get secondment opportunities since they may be unable to find someone to take your place. Also, you’re far more siloed in a big company, so say if you’ve been hired as a desktop engineer you won’t get to work with server or networking stuff, whereas in a small companies you typically have broader job descriptions and responsibilities.
Oh man, that sucks. I’ve had many amazing oppourtunities in my career and have seen others struggle for just one, and it’s hard to identify why that is.
I definitely think job hopping has helped, though. It increases your chances of getting a good manager that can line up opportunities, helps you broaden your experience, and builds self-confidence and helps you push back on bullshit because you prove to yourself you can get another job and so don’t have to put up with one you don’t like for too long.