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[quote=Anonymous]NP here.  Just wondering how my situation would appear, since I've changed jobs more than I would have liked...and I'm being advised, even by DCUM, to leave my current job b/c it is a terrible fit:

early 2008 - Graduate with PhD and begin a postdoctoral research position (1.5 yr)
late 2009 - Leave research for good. Take a 1-yr policy fellowship to transition career. 
late 2010 - Short term contract position while waiting on Fed applciation (don't put this on my resume since it was only a couple months)
2011 - Permanent Fed position (2.5 yrs) : I would still be in this job if I could be.
2013 - Need to relocate and leave Fed service due to DH job; transition back to technical private sector role in a relatively junior position just to get feet wet (1.5 yr) 
2014 - Recruited to another company to lead a team doing what I was doing at previous job (significant title and salary bump)
2015 - Laid off in a somewhat complicated situation; started to do some independent consulting
2016 - Asked to take a permanent consulting position with a firm, but new employer hasn't brought me any clients and I'm having trouble closing deals with the types of clients I used to work with due to rates being too high (6 mos in now)

So that's where I am.  I have very little work to do, but a high salary...and I basically can't bring in the clients that I would most like to work with due to our costs being too high.  I wouldn't mind going back to doing independent consulting work, though I would probably cut my earnings in half.  I also am coming to learn that I don't like consulting as much as I like working within a company...I'm really nervous about applying for new jobs, though, given my job history.   Except for my most recent job, I have excellent relationships with all of my former bosses, and they would all give me great recommendations.  My boss at last job was later fired due to corporate malfeasance (I refused to participate, and I took advantage of broader lay offs happening company-wide to get out of the situation).

From my perspective, the only job I left where I could have realistically stayed was my first after leaving Federal service.  I do now regret leaving it, since I would have moved up eventually.
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