I started looking for my first job on March 2013 and I finally find a decent one on October 2017. Phew! Well, that was difficult! And for someone who is concerned about it’s career, difficult it’s a diplomatic way of saying.
I finally found the job that meets my expectations. What were those goddamned expectations:
- if I get hired for a role, I want to perform that role. For example, if I’m getting hired as a .net developer I want to be a .net developer
- decent location: no warehouse office, nor apartment company or who knows what else. A standard, office building, as simple as that
- work-life balance
- decent salary
Please note that to me, even at the moment of writing, money comes last.
When you are young work to learn not to earn. Robert Kiyosaki
What was so hard that it took me 5 years? Long story short:
I got hired to a big company as an intern, I was fired since I was too committed.
I got hired to a tiny company as an intern, I was fired since I was not committed enough.
I got hired to a bad reputed company, I was resigned to a windows phone, which was at the beginning of it’s downfall. After a year, the client dropped it’s unpromising windows phone project, and I was fired right away.
Like all of my previous jobs, my earnings were tiny, but here I had the opportunity to work on a warehouse outside the city, and my boss had a challenging personality. In order to get to the office, I was walking on foot on plain field and and the dust was spread by wind on me. I also caught a lot of rainy days which made me really sick — both physically and metaphorically.
I’ve been fired three times in a row.
After 4 moths of my I moved to another city, I got hired to a huge company — I like large organisations, I’m not even close to kidding. My money issues, and ultimately my disease caught on my previous job were cleared.
The only issue was that I was not performing my role, and I could’d resign due a very complicated context. I had to stay there for two years.
This is my compressed story, the full version is here.
I finally got hired to Endava. I am delighted, this was what I looking for. My review could be found here. Unfortunately it is in Romanian language due the fact that the one from Glassdoor is not visible yet.
I am super excited about Endava.
Okay, it’s not the perfect job, but neither me — I’m not the perfect employee. Good enough, tough, and it goes both sides.
What’s next? About Endava, fell free to do your own research :-)
About me, well, you know what they say … “Don’t talk about plans, show results instead”.
Conclusion
I might be wrong, I may have modest standards, but after a false start of my career, I find Endava an awesome company. Yay!