Job hopping and moving around

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I've had NTs express horror at my job hopping and moving around and told me that I need stability or I need to stop "running from my problems". I was confused, "what problems?" I'm enjoying my life. Why are y'all obsessed with being stuck in the same place?

I find it interesting to move around and work in different places. To me it's not unsettling, it's fun and interesting. I have a lot of experience now which makes me versatile and highly employable. I've met lots more people than I would have just living in one town and I've got friends all over the country and in other countries.

A lot of aspies on here have never met another aspie, but I have because I've moved around a lot and we just kind of find each other.

As long as you maintain a steady income and can cover all of the bills I don't see an issue.

Hey, what works, works.

Similar but different - when Dad was in Navy he "got job hopped" via being transferred every 2 years, it seemed to be the standard Navy way, no one thought it odd or bad or detrimental or abnormal.

From where I came from... Stability isn't guaranteed, even one with stable income.

Tis no wonder why people here would rather leave the country.
In some cases, the whole family is involved with hopping and moving around.


And if people accuse them of running away,
would be like wrong genre savvy gone wrong.


Honestly, I sort of aspired to live that way -- to go and move places to places, doing all sorts of odd jobs with nowhere to settle.

But I can't, not as long as I'm too physically weak or demanding for that, and too attached to go for it.

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Edna, you've just made me realise that I'm taking my freedom for granted. I didn't mean to come off as flippant.

And I realise that I'm often choosing to move on, whereas a lot of aspies may live in places with less strict employment laws where they can be dismissed for trivial reasons or others may have to leave their jobs because they can't cope.

There have been jobs that I've left because I wasn't coping, but I always managed to have a new job lined up, so no stress of figuring out how to pay bills. I live in an country where finding employment hasn't been too much of an issue and I shouldn't take that for granted either.

Not a lifestyle I'd be able to handle; too much change... though if it was a choice between that lifestyle and being unemployed, I'd at least try that. But yeah, if you're happy with it and can get by with it, I really don't see why it'd be a problem. Your life, your business. It's just that some people consider everything that is not a norm for them to be a bad kind of weird, including moving around for work.

Don't let yourself get brainwashed by HR weenies. Job hopping is a free education in what matters. It is highly recommended for people who want to get better prospects than being assistant manager after a decade. Until I was 40, I'd always try to get one paycheque in my hand, and one in my head. By then, I was forgetting old skills as fast as I was learning new ones.
Having broad experience makes it easy to find or make work as you need it. Common lessons from one field can be wonderful new information in another, giving you a real advantage.

So hurtloam. Where are you going to end up next? You could end up anywhere...!

I tend to go where jobs are. If its no more than an hour away I can commute and then move there later.

This way I have managed to move across the country and back again by moving in one hour increments down the motorway.

certainly in my day job we need both career s great.

The firm gets great benefit from the people who stick with us for the long haul - who give both a place of stability and people who have learned the particular culture and how to work with it / work around it depending on how it affects getting the job done.

The firm and others in our sector benefit from those who move job to job. These are the people who quietly spread the good and best practices around, build people networks,and save us from repeating one another's mistakes.

After several years of doing advanced fiberglass work on my own, I decided to try working in the industry, to see if I had missed some basic information. The prize there was learning to scribble on a surface with magic marker in between using finer grades of sandpaper, to avoid missing some deeper scratches. I got sent off for a week of advanced training, and had to focus for just one afternoon, devoted to paperwork regulations in aircraft. I did get some practice with the state-of-the-art techniques, but was learning better ones just by seeing them done back in our own factory by a guy hired from a nearby shop.

People have different learning styles. Aspies tend to be poor in mirror neurons, but good at book learning.