in reply to Re: From Developer to Security...
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Here, here!

I agree, get as much experience with different things as you can.. (Though I don't mean change jobs every month, thats not experience.. :) - You never know when theres going to be a shortage of jobs in your chosen career, or one comes up in a place you'd like to be, and don't have the experience to take it.

On the other hand, I wouldn't go for jobs that I know from the start I'm not going to like much, unless theres some chance it'll change to be something better soon.. You'll start out resentful, which won't be much fun.

C.

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Re: Re: Re: From Developer to Security...
by chaoticset (Chaplain) on Sep 25, 2003 at 14:17 UTC


    This begs the question -- how long is long enough at a job?

    I mean you specifically indicate that every month is not long enough, and of course YMMV, everyone learns differently, etc., but what would you say is the absolute minimum amount of time that a hiring manager would not think flaky?

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      It does, doesn't it :)

      I have no clue what hiring managers/people may think, never having been one of them (or even chummy with).. Here and in my opinion, 6 months is not enough (thats usually the probationary period..) 1 year is also not really 'stuck at it' much.. I'd say somewhere between 1 and 2 years.

      (Funny, been at this one since May 2000, and getting monotonous, hmm :)

      C.

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