FreeLists / webproducers / [webproducers] Re: Project Manager experience

["Eileen 'Turtle' Parzek" <turtle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I couldn't agree more. My work history has not been 'normal' in any way  - 
and I just had my FIRST job interview in life, this year, at 34 years old. 
I'm also commuting now, for the first time in my life (10 min commute... 
wow).  I worked for the state of new york 3 blocks from my apartment for 9 
years, was self employed for 5, and then the job I had last year I was 
recruited for from cross country, and telecommuted from the east coast 
communicating with technical lead and developers in Poland and managing my 
content team in LA. That only lasted a year, largely because of terrible 
mismanagement on the CA side and no VC coming in to allow us to launch what 
we built. I am now in a situation, taken wholly against my better 
judgement, that I would leave in a *heartbeat* - but for now its a job and 
a paycheck and I deal with it and try to make a difference no matter how 
futile it seems. I would hope, that if someone was to size me up, they 
wouldn't judge me too harshly for leaving a sinking ship in CA or having 
the self awareness to know i'm not in the right place right now, and just 
biding time.

>That being said, I think that generally you can suss out pretty quickly if a
>work environment
>is going to be healthy (relatively) or dysfunctional. And rapid turnover is
>generally less a
>reflection of the employee than the company. If  someone I'm interviewing
>has a string of short-term jobs, I tend to look somewhat askance at their
>resume -
>but I think everybody has, at one point or another, taken a job they thought
>would
>be beneficial only to realize quickly that it was a bad fit.
>
>I don't think that duration of employment is necessarily the best (or most
>useful) metric by which
>to judge an employee or a company. There are so many mitigating factors to
>be considered ....




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