A story of a JOB HOPPER....... got via email part 1

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Here is an interesti ng email that is doing rounds.  This is about a software professio nal who is a job hopper... ....

Some, rather most organizat ions reject his CV today because he has changed jobs frequentl y (10 in 14 years). My friend, the ‘job hopper’ (referred here as Mr. JH), does not mind it…. well he does not need to mind it at all. Having worked full-time with 10 employer companies in just 14 years gives Mr. JH the relaxing edge that most of the ‘company loyal’ employees are strugglin g for today. Today, Mr. JH too is laid off like some other 14-15 year experienc ed guys – the differenc e being the latter have just worked in 2-3 organizat ions in the same number of years. Here are the excerpts of an interview with Mr. JH:

Q1: Why have you changed 10 jobs in 14 years?
A: To get financial ly sound and stable before getting laid off the second time.

Q2: So you knew you would be laid off in the year 2009?
A: Well I was laid off first in the year 2002 due to the first global economic slowdown. I had not got a full-time job before January 2003 when the economy started looking up; so I had struggled for almost a year without job and with compromis es.

Q3: Which number of job was that?
A: That was my third job.

Q4: So from Jan 2003 to Jan 2009, in 6 years, you have changed 8 jobs to make the count as 10 jobs in 14 years?
A: I had no other option. In my first 8 years of professio nal life, I had worked only for 2 organizat ions thinking that jobs are deserved after lot of hard work and one should stay with an employer company to justify the saying ‘employer loyalty’. But I was an idiot.

Q5: Why do you say so?
A: My salary in the first 8 years went up only marginall y. I could not save enough and also, I had thought that I had a ‘permanent’ job, so I need not worry about ‘what will I do if I lose my job’. I could never imagine losing a job because of economic slowdown and not because of my performan ce. That was January 2002.