Question about the "never job hop" rule my mentor at my first gig pushed on me
Dale, my old manager at a warehouse office in Akron, warned me that jumping jobs inside two years would wreck my resume, so I stayed put for four years and watched my pay go up 2% a year. A recruiter in 2022 offered me 18k more to move across town, and I took it, and nobody has ever asked me why I left. Now I'm curious how much of that old rule was real and how much was just what he was told back in the 90s. Did a mentor ever hand you a career rule that fell apart once you tested it?