Today I am starting a new job. Different company, different title, similar role. So I thought I would try to describe why I am moving on.

I am going back to a software vendor I left it a few years ago. I left because I was missing direct contact with the business users. I left because I felt I had reached the limits of my influence and growth there. I am going back because I am given a great opportunity both in terms of career and personal development. I have a chance to further the changes I helped introduce back then. I get a chance to apply innovative solutions. That is the bottom line for me. In my previous role, despite all the great people I met and worked with I was not getting to apply innovative solutions. And therefore I was not learning as much as I would have liked. This is the deep reason why I felt dissatisfied. The other elements that took part in my decision were only the back breaking straws.

In fact I strongly believe turnover is beneficial for companies and employees alike in the software engineering world. As long as the turnover aligns with project duration it is not overly destabilising. The company gets to hire new people with fresh ideas. The employee gets to learn new things. I wonder if knowledge workers could be classified in the same way as open space participants: pigs, bees and butterflies.

What do you think ? What kind of worker are you ?

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