re: What do you define as job hopper?

In engineering, I usually pass on anyone that jumps from job to job every 2 year especially in their first 10 years of their career. More times than not that person is chasing the dollar and hasn't picked up the necessary skills to be a good designer. They may be a good paper pusher aka "Project Manager".

I have hired a couple because we were in a bind and basically had to start from scratch because they basically didn't learn anything at their previous firms.

I understand in today's age why some are doing it to maximize their income.

I've been with my company for one year. I have an impressive title and I worked to the bone for my salary. I average 60 hours a week, and I hate my job due to burnout.

I recently did my review, the boss offered a five percent raise and finally paid me the $1000 bonus she gave everyone else in December. The previous manager that quit was promised $2500.

Little did she know, I am sitting on an offer with a 25 percent raise. I start mid June. I don't feel bad at all about hopping jobs.

I knew two people I considered to be “job hoppers”. One was roughly 30 and had a 6 different jobs in 8 years. All at the same company. I was surprised they let him do that, but he was going across divisions and across the country every move

I ended up working with another guy who was roughly 50 and had at least 20 different jobs at different companies on his resume. His resume had almost no bullet points, just job positions, and went on for two pages. The guy had consistently managed to fall upwards and was a senior SME level engineer being paid bank, while doing work that was being surpassed by entry level engineers. And he was fantastic at gaming the hiring and firing systems. He was honestly terrible at everything in life except getting hired upwards and getting fired with severance or unemployment

OP is a dick though. I left my first job at two years. I was considered a top talent at my job, but saw the writing on the wall with our company and our contract and got out immediately before it imploded. I’m sure other companies threw me out for the same reason

Over the last 10 years I’ve held 4 jobs in 2 different states. The first to the second and second to third were lateral moves. The fourth was a big time promotion.

Got tired of more responsibility for same pay at job 1. Was there for a year and a half. Job 2 was more of the same, but was there for 3 years. Job 3 was the drizzling shits - worked there for 6 days before sending a 10PM resignation email. Job 4 was a big time upgrade in terms of title, salary, and benefits.

Never looks bad on a sales resume, especially if the jobs get progressively more lucrative and challenging.

I went from jobs with $250K annual targets to jobs with multi million dollar targets. On average I have changed sales jobs about every 2 years. Longest I have stayed is 6 years. Shortest is just over a year.

I’ve been in my current job a year and am actively looking. When the senior leadership runs the stock prices from $65 to $11 in a year, it’s time to find greener pastures.

Ive moved at 2 yr mark consistently, I get asked about it but got the job I wanted last go round... so whatever.

Wi5h the company I retired from, it wasn't unusual to see people walking around with 20 or 25 year pens on.

When got a new guy or gal (usually guys) in our department, we could check the license and see how many firms were in the history.

Usually the ones that had a history of 2 or 3 years at a firm would be gone in 2 or 3 with us. Those are job hoppers.

Like you have a job fricktwat

I’m from Louisiana but was out of state during the years Katrina hit. I remember looking at resumes a few years later and seeing lots of job movement. It’s like a scar in a tree for many people’s job progressions during that time. Covid cause another one for some