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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see absolutely no liability for staying that long. Normal people will see that long tenure as an asset.

Somehow the internet has convinced millennials and younger that jumping jobs every 18 months is not only okay but is a career asset. They're delusional, and once they hit their power years in early 40s-late 50s, alot of them are going to find out how dispensable they are. [/quote]

I've had a lot of different jobs and the career asset isn't moving a lot, it's the skill and career growth that unfortunately can be very difficult to get in some fields if you stay in the same place. If you can get that growth without moving, great. But the issue with staying someplace for 18 years isn't that you stayed there for so long, it's that you may or may be employable more broadly--you've never had to figure this out. A lot of senior employees lose their good jobs and struggle to find something new because much of their value was organization-specific, they don't have great networks, and they don't know how to job search. And there's not a way to test this other than by actually looking for a job. [/quote]

The problem is that for any job with a challenging skill set, you're not going to develop that skill set in less than 3-4 years.  So if you're job hunting every 2 years, you're not getting the skill and career growth that you say is important.  Or if you think you are becoming an expert in a job in less than 2 years, then the job must not be very difficult.... which means you'll be disposable in your 40s when you're expensive. I don't think you need to stay 18 years, but i'd want to hire the person with 18 years tenure before the person with 6 jobs at 3 years at a time. ALso, i get that some companies don't provide opportunities to grow and develop, but if you're two decades into your career and been at six different employers and never once landed somewhere where they gave you upward opportunities, then i think that speaks volumes too. [/quote]

It’s not uncommon to see many ppl in the 6-8 year experience range outperform people with 20 years of experience.

Unless you are a brain surgeon, most corp jobs can be learned within 2-4 years.
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Yes “learned” in 2-4 years. So if you leave at three years, you’ve just completed the learning stage and are leaving before you apply yourself in the job as a fully experienced person. In other words, you’re always leaving before or essentially just as you become  an expert at your job. You’re never actually at your job when you’re truly the expert. [/quote]

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