Is switching companies frequently the best way to learn?
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Maksym Schipka, CTO, Vortexa
over 6 months ago
Is switching companies frequently the best way to learn?
How much you enjoy your life, depends on you and you alone. Nobody else, not the things outside of you. I am more glass, half full kind of person rather than half empty because it is possible. And I've seen it many, many times. It is possible to find things that interest you, that excite you in pretty much everything around you. All you need is a desire to look deeper, right?
It's not to say that one shouldn't strive to sort of improve or look for other opportunities. Now, that's not the case, but my attitude is be sure that you've achieved what you wanted to achieve. Be sure that you made a dent. Because for example, if I join an organization, which by the way, I see so many times on CVs of younger individuals nowadays, they spend half a year in a company and they disappear and then they spend half a year in a different one. And then you have a CV of five years' experience half a year in each company.
Some might say it's good learning, but I would say, I ask how much of a dent? How much of a difference has the person been able to make in each one of those? So when I come across a person who says, "Oh, I had nothing to learn." "Really? Did you not? Are you sure? Did you look deep enough?
How much you enjoy your life, depends on you and you alone. Nobody else, not the things outside of you. I am more glass, half full kind of person rather than half empty because it is possible. And I've seen it many, many times. It is possible to find things that interest you, that excite you in pretty much everything around you. All you need is a desire to look deeper, right?
It's not to say that one shouldn't strive to sort of improve or look for other opportunities. Now, that's not the case, but my attitude is be sure that you've achieved what you wanted to achieve. Be sure that you made a dent. Because for example, if I join an organization, which by the way, I see so many times on CVs of younger individuals nowadays, they spend half a year in a company and they disappear and then they spend half a year in a different one. And then you have a CV of five years' experience half a year in each company.
Some might say it's good learning, but I would say, I ask how much of a dent? How much of a difference has the person been able to make in each one of those? So when I come across a person who says, "Oh, I had nothing to learn." "Really? Did you not? Are you sure? Did you look deep enough?