Relocation

[EngineerDave]

Just curious how many times you have relocated? I.E. moving cities?

I've been in engineering and technical jobs since 1996 (1993 if you include co-op)

This will be my 3rd post college relocation (and 5th city if you count co-op jobs)

Moving is tough but for the job one has to do it, especially in this economy.

 

[swivel63]

2nd city after college
5th city if you count college

been working in the "industry" since '98 (summer after freshman year)

yea, yea, yea.....shaddap, i'm young

do you have a family?

 

[EngineerDave]

Fiance with me now.

Was looking to get a house in the town i grew up in. Then I got laidoff. Tough.

Now I'm moving 5 hours away (but a quick 1 hour flight)

 

[ornerynorsk]

In my profession since 1982. 13 jobs, 6 relocations, plus a stint in Asia. I run into very few people nowadays who have been static for more than 3 or 4 years.

 

[swivel63]

i was at my first job out fo college for 4 years. i loved that job, and would have stayed had i not hated south florida.

LOL.

 

[metengr]

Relocated to two different suburbs in the large metropolitan city that I was born and raised in my rather short life span.

 

[DesignerGuy16]

10 years here, and only one major relocation under my belt. I was offered jobs in 2 other far away places as well. Well not Asia far away, but states away in the US.

Seems like it comes with the territory these days.

James Spisich
Design Engineer, CSWP

 

[Ron]

6 years in first location...2 jobs
12 years in 2nd location...3 jobs
15 years in 3rd location...3 jobs

Out of the 8 jobs, have had 5 different employers, 2 of them twice (including myself)

 

[Compositepro]

In 25 years I worked in two different locations in SoCal. First job out of colledge lasted three years and then the plant shut down in the '82 recession. Next location was about 30 miles away (no unemployment, fortunately). In 21 years I worked for five different companies but didn't really change jobs. Then decided to get out of SoCal before it was too late.

 

[pennpiper]

I have had 6 relocation's

I know of a person who has had over 20 relocation's (a real job shopper)

 

[swivel63]

@ compositepro

is the '82 worse than this one?

 

[Ron]

'82 recession was not as bad as this one. This one is on par with the '74 recession.

 

[GregLocock]

I've had to relocate for every new employer, ever since I started, so that's 7 times in 27 years, not including uni.




Cheers

Greg Locock

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[Compositepro]

As the saying goes "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours". This one is definitely worse for the overall economy than '82. Back then there wasn't fear of economic collapse. Although I lost my job I don't think of '82 as all that bad. I was in high school in '74 and remember how bad it was in aerospace and for Boeing. Later in my carrer aeropsace was a great industry for people my age because so many junior engineers had been laid-off and went into other industries. That age gap was still evident until just recently. like the "Baby Boom".

 

[ctopher]

In past 22 years, relocated 6 times because of job change. Relocated other times not releated to job change.

Chris
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[ScottyUK]

15 years, 3 relocations, and some long commutes. A 10-year spell at one job, a couple of years in London, and the first few near my home town. Ironically I want to relocate now and can't because house prices are down and no one is buying. That may force a change of plan with a job I enjoy because I'm not prepared to commute forever more and may have to look more locally.

Over here the recession looks like being worse than the one in the early 90's, maybe as bad as the one in the early 80's when our manufacturing base was destroyed by Thatcher. I can remember the 90's one clearly; I'm a little too young to have appreciated how bad things were in the early 80's but I remember the closure of the shipyards and the Miner's Strike which both hit North East England so hard.


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[ajack1]

35 years and 1 location, I guess partly down to luck and partly down to seeing being close to friends and family as more important than just money.

Interesting to see different people views on the 70’s 80’s and 90’s , to me this is the worst as they were more local recessions, so it depended far more or where you lived and the industry you were in.

I cannot agree with Scotty, Thatcher was the saviour not the villain, prior to that the unions had brought down successive governments with unrealistic demands. Whilst they were striking for things like sacking workers for being a sleep and a non qualified electrician changing a light bulb, in Europe they were working for better working conditions and redundancy packages, so we are still seeing plants closing in the UK because it is cheaper to do so despite them being more efficient.

 

[ScottyUK]

ajack,

I don't deny the unions weren't everything you describe. She didn't try to fix the problems with the unions, she just destroyed the industries which supported them and killed the unions that way. It was a high price to pay, too high as we are faced with the utter collapse of her precious service industry economy like some house of cards in the wind and with nothing in its place.

Thatcher's method of saving British industry was akin to curing toothache by cutting off the patient's head.


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[ornerynorsk]

Funny, I hear a lot of people talk about this recession being worse than 82. For me it's the opposite. Out hear in "Greater" Minnesota (outside the metro, not bragging) we feel economic effect almost immediately, but we lag the recovery by years. We still had mass business closures and farm foreclosures running strong up until about 88 or 89. Knock on wood, so far-so good this time around. Wife and I still both working, although the missus has had her hours cut. The 80's were rough. I had to close my year old start-up when the work just wasn't there, and had to take the worst paying job of my life just to keep a roof. I think it all boils down to individual situation. Some businesses thrive in conditions like these, just due to the fact that so much of the competition is withering. Seems I'm well off topic on the thread so I'll sign off now. Happy Easter / Passover, everyone!

 

[SomptingGuy]

One's views on economic up periods and down periods is so heavily based on the age of the viewer. It's impossible to be objective as a teenager and equally hard to look back to teenage years without bias. I was a Maggie teenager. We need another 50 years to be able to make objective commentaries.

- Steve