Am I afraid of a long-term career commitment?
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Hey, these days it's par for the course. Once businesses started laying people off, they opened the can of worms and ended the days of people committing themselves to a company, so it's sort of the business climate these days. Staying with a job for 5+ years makes your resume look better and might open doors that would otherwise be closed to an apparent "job-hopper," but on the other hand, if you consistently find yourself in a position where you need to make a move, you need to weigh that desire with the benefits of building a stable track record. I'm kind of the same way. I was an intern for 2 years, then I headed up a housing authority for one year, and I just moved to a State job, and after only a month I'm ready to get the hell out! If staying in a job is absolute living hell, then do what you have to. but in my case, even though I would love to go, I can't. It would make me look so flighty that I would have a hard time finding further employment, so I have to hang with it at least for a respectable period.
So my advice would be to hang with a job for a bit longer if you can, just because it will get harder and harder as your resume gets more and more packed with quicky jobs. Businesses are trying to battle the trend of high turnover amongst their young workforce because their old-timers are all lining up for retirement, and there aren't a lot of people in our generation that have much history with a given company to take the reins. They don't want to have nothing but newcommers that are still learning the ropes. They want the person they hire today to be the expert manager 10 years from now who is comfortable with all the caveats of that business. So if you mark yourself as a serial job-hunter, you will become less desirable unfortunately.
Commit, but there is always a point when there is an oppertunity you can not refuse and then move on.
I see nothing wrong with that at all. I think that you should commit yourself to a job while you are working there, but if something is offered to you that's a bigger and better job, why should you settle for less? The jobs that you move on to are obviously realizing your potential, otherwise why would they offer you a job? I don't think you should settle for anything less than you think you're worth. Don't let a job hold ya back! I think that any employer worth anything would understand if you wanted/needed to move onto something bigger and better, and if they thought you were great then they would offer you more money or something in order to keep you there. Good luck!
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