job hoppers

leaving your job might be best for your career

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Amber Rhodes & Dillon Young
January 31, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 6 minutes

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TL;DR

  • Job hopping is on the rise with younger workers, and the reason why makes complete sense. 

  • How often do you see marketing and customer success really 👌vibe? 👌

  • Hi! My name is (what?) my name is (who?) my name is (chka-chka) Gulf of America.

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No, job hopping will not ruin your career. It’s more likely to help it.

The traditional career path used to be crystal clear: get an entry-level position, do well in your job, stay for years, and get promoted over time.

But those days are loooong gone – and the new playbook for progressing in your career follows advice many of us were told to avoid: 

Job hopping.

Has anyone ever told you that job hopping is bad for your career growth?

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A recent study from ADP paints a different picture. After analyzing the recent job history of 51 million workers, researchers found that 75% of workers leave their employer before getting promoted. And the people who stay? Less than 1% will be promoted by their third year in the job. 

A 2023 study found that 83% of Gen Z workers proudly consider themselves job-hoppers carving out their own unique career path. 

What makes workers stay?

The top reasons people choose to stay with an employer are flexibility in scheduling and career advancement. But funnily enough, only 3.8% of workers learn new skills on the job – and this sucks because upskilling correlates to a +37% increase in wages. 

No wonder ambitious workers are choosing to move around more! 

It seems like more workers are taking the advice that every job you should either earn or learn…or leave. 

🖥️ What else is happening in tech?

  • Google announced a “voluntary exit program” on Thursday for US employees working on Platforms & Devices. Employees who exit will reportedly get a severance package, but full details haven’t yet been released. 

  • Well-known Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is on the hunt for promising early-stage startups in Europe. 

  • Oh, whale! DeepSeek sent the market into a frenzy on Monday, but Big Tech firms say they aren’t scared. 🐋 

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Let’s dish 🤭

What’s in a name?

Have you ever wondered how mapmakers determine if it’s time to change the name of a location on a map? Me neither, until now!

Enter: the Gulf of America

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What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet

- American politicians William Shakespeare

For background, President Trump issued an executive action in his first week in office to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America for reasons. Now what happens?

Here’s how Google plans to handle the changes in Google Maps:

Basically, once the change from Gulf of Mexico → Gulf of America is updated in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), Google will update their own maps. 

The same practice goes for Mount Denali, which will be changed back to Mount McKinley. 

Which will you see in your Maps app? 

According to Google: "When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too."

So…

🫖 What's the tea?

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