I Quit My Job… AGAIN 

My number one question to ask a company in a job interview is "What would a typical working day look like for this role?". It often puts the interviewers on the back foot as they have to think about it and make the role not sound boring - they need to sell the job. There is some psychology involved here because they tend to want you more when you ask them questions they find difficult because they suddenly want to impress you instead of you impressing them and realising that you may actually turn the job down - which makes you much more desirable.

All the best finding a new job Jake. You seem to have exceptional insight and capacity for self reflection, so I'm sure the path forward can only help you grow further. We're all behind you 100%.

We will always continue supporting you 😁

You are awesome mate. I have been a software developer for a long time and still, your comments about the job and these kinds of stuff are very helpful. Keep doing plz.

You're great Jake! I'm a swedish computer scientist, and I have just finished my master's, and it's great to follow you along with your journey with jobs and so on, when I'm having the same kind of trouble finding what job is the best one for me etc! Keep it it up, your channel is great!

Good luck Jake! You da man

I'm not out of university yet so I'm living vicariously through you. Great videos btw.

Good luck man, u the best !

Wish you all the best. Good to here about your experience. It’ll definitely help me when I start looking for job after graduation. Please do share your tips along this journey! Lots of love xx.

I needed to see this! Great video, work culture is sooooo important man

Your insights are brilliant!

People that are concerned for his career are hilarious. He's a Cambridge compsci that can actually code... He'll be snapped up pretty rapidly.

Thank you for this video. I need this

I'm extremely sorry to hear this. I was shocked when you uploaded this latest video. I went through a bit of a somewhat similar situation after I left UCL (maths) and it took a couple of hoops until I found I developer position that made me feel at home.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, dood. I've been spending a fair bit of time recently thinking about "corporate" environments and how to foster community and co-operation. Also, as a cheeky side note, I love your soft North East accent :)

All the best Jake ! ☺

No one understands your thinking until they go through your pain. I am in the same boat. My biggest mistake was I never asked them during interview what my day to day task and I never saw the office space. I’m a well established company that is growing, which is weird, you figure they would have it down pack.

It takes a lot of courage to evaluate the company that you’re working with and to raise your concern and negotiate. If it’s not a win-win, there isn’t a point for a person to stay. Came across your video on my smart tv (randomly, I hope). Great video though, keep it up.

Good luck in the job hunt, Jake. Love your content on youtube!

Hey Jake, got my cambridge computer Science interview at Corpus Christi college on the 7th, nervous as hell but your videos have been really helpful.

Good luck on the job search Jake! I'm sure it will all work out! Keep us posted =)

As always Jack, you never cease to amaze me! But could you explain something about knowledge you learned at college and your experience? Are those two things really matter when you seek for the job and apply for it? Please maybe you could make a video explaining about it. Thankyou in advance Jacky!

I am learning a lot from your channel. Keep the good educational videos more often

That is quite interesting actually. I've recently, after 1.5 years quit my job as a software developer in a huge company. Though a very good work/life balance ratio, I've found the project not allowing me to learn new things anymore. I was thinking about looking for a new job this time in contrary in a startup/small company but the thoughts you shared, especially in the last part of the video were quite interesting, maybe even eye opening. I probably need to consider the 'social life' aspect more whilst looking for a new job and ask more questions to the interviewers about things other than the projects itself. Thank you for these ideas!

Yay! Jake uploaded a new video! Today is gotta be a good day

It,s was good experience because you tried out and you know what you don’t like. The most important when I take these decisions are to have some money in my wallet to work out next decision without stress!

You are such an inspiring human being Jake. I support whatever path you choose to pursue :) Sending you lots of love, xoxo

do not worry, if it was not fit for you, you are able to change it :) people have many changes in work-life back.

Seems like your going through the same motions as me when I was working as a developer in London. Let me give you some advice. You will not find what your are looking for. To these companies you are a resource, that is it. You might not think so, but as a "IT worker" you are at the bottom of the corporate food chain and you always will be. Use them while you need them, but work on building your own ideas/business. The sooner you start the better. Being successful in this field is not about how much tech you know but about ideas and having the balls to take a chance - coding/tech is easy.

Too bad things didn’t workout better, but it is good that you are able to go in a new direction. Some of this reminds me of things Jamie Ped Vlogs had shared about his previous job situation. He found a new job and is much happier than he was. You and he could probably do a really interesting collaboration video about your different work experiences. Even if you don’t film anything you may enjoy talking with him. He is a lovely person. I work for a very small company. I have come to like that. Eventually I know we will have to expand. That will be an interesting period of adjustment. I wish you well and look forward to more videos from you.

I'm currently working on a little office, we are 5 persons on the same room, with our headphones on and not much talking nor moving. however I'm learning a lot from the mids and seniors here and that's why I'm staying a bit longer. I've learned a lot of stuff this last 5 months but I'm gonna move on, whenever I'm ready. Greetings from México

You'll achieve great things! Good luck :)

As usual, you are brilliant, focused, and self-directed. There'll be something out there that will engage and challenge you. Do your research and find it.

Love u jake whatever u do is superb

Thanks for the video. reminded me I have to change the job :)

Even though this video is 6 years old, I am in my first job and thinking of leaving soon after two years, and this video has helped me consider and reflect on what I might want in the future, so thank you.

Applying for placement year, this incredibly insightful

all the best jake

i completely understand your decision. Having worked in a big company aprx. 24,000 employees, hopped to work in start up . Not so much exciting things to do, random task, and boss decision is absolute. i thought it is quite normal in small company #yes i quit too.

JAKE omg good luck!

I would recommend considering older medium sized companies (or just remember they exist). A lot of these are a bit old and sell their software to big companies in certain industries. They might have a start-up sized R&D department but they will have more employees overall. In my experience they have a huge backlog of cool projects, things that their big company clients asked for years ago. You might be able to choose between either building things from scratch or bringing out new versions of existing products (you know how big companies get stuck with awful systems - you can completely overhaul them). It might just be higher expectations for the same pay, but it does give "learn by doing" a new meaning.

Ah. Nice to have a Jake vid, again.

Hi Jake, good to see an upload. Got a CompSci interview at Christ’s on Thursday and your videos have helped loads, thanks!

5 things: money, learning, making a difference, 50% interesting and 50% enjoyable, work-life balance.

There's a couple of dev positions open at my place at the moment; One business intelligence developer on and one .net developer. The dev team has about 10(ish) people at the moment but they're looking to expand a lot. Only thing is it's based in Derby. I can send you the job descriptions etc across if you're interested.

Wooo the videos are back

Not sure how this ended up in my suggested videos but glad it did. I went through the exact same thing after a decade working for a large fintech, I went to a startup only to leave after 6 months.

Best of luck at your next job.

Good luck Jake.

Jake my G! Please do RU-vid full-time. I bet you will smash it!!!!!!!

Actually I also started to work for a start up about 3 months ago as devops engineer. I think most of the things that you didn't get from this job are specific to this job not start ups as general. We've got most of the things that you've missed from bigger company and I think interesting product related to customer information and their rights as the owner of the information. They might be looking for new Dev, they also use GO language. Let me know if you'd like to know more

cheers from the states!

Good luck on your next job

5 good points my man. They should be on everyone's list, when looking for a new job.

new to this channel but wish you the best of luck, actually got my computer science interview at churchill, Cambridge tomorrow but im watching this instead of preparing! Wish me luck!

As a software developer I doubt it will be hard to find something you can be passionate about. Best of luck

All the best.

You could tell from the mail train vid that you weren't hugely enthusiastic about it all

I'm somewhat in the same situation as you are. Leaving my job on 31st December 2017 with no other offer in hand.

Google?

you can apply for software developer at one of these companies.

Hi! I'm interested in computer science. Can you Please do videos relating to computer science?. Like what did you learn, and perhaps you could teach some lessons here?. Thankyou.

What about working for a company that does B2B Software development services? E.g. Accenture or a more medium sized company such as Zuehlke?

You should look into startups regarding international development - how to cheaply deploy technology to save millions of lives

Can you pleas talk about the things you exactly do in each company you work on as a computer scientist :) pleeeeeeas

I like that you've always followed your guts.🙂

Good luck man... Your brother from Palestine

Consider going freelance, as a software developer you will be challenged and have an end in sight. You'll also get exposure to different projects. Finally the beauty of freelance is the money, you'll be able take time between contracts to have that work life balance.

Feeling like crap. Great treat watching this

Would you ever want to work at Docker? (We do have a London office!)

What language were you writing on the back end?

I hate to say this but I saw this coming from day 1. You are in a very privileged position where you have the freedom to define exactly what you want and to quit a job if that's not it. That being said, that privilege was earned but should still be acknowledged.

Get better, Jake.

Hey Jake, long-term fan here! I've watched your vlogs since you were a second year at Cambridge lol. I relate to this video so much. I'm currently in a graduate role that pays well and has an amazing work life balance, but I am not liking it at all. I am not interested in the work, the office culture is a bad fit for me, I have not clicked at all with my manager and I'm finding myself increasingly unhappy. I've just passed the 3 month mark and am not sure what to do. I am not brave enough to quit with nothing lined up, so I guess I will start looking for something else a bit more aligned with my interests and personality. Good luck to you with your search Jake and thanks for sharing your journey with us :)

Is a three month notice normal in the UK? Two weeks is the standard here (the US) so when you said you gave your three months notice I was shocked tbh

Were you tempted to sort out another job before handing in your notice or was that option off the table?

What for videos will you bring

I’ve never clicked faster

You can't expect to be working for a startup which has huge team sizes with years and years of experience and alot of resources to try out new things. You can't have it every way.

100% agreed!

You on cryptocurrency?

best of luck

Hi Jake I have a question to ask seeing as you are a Cambridge grad in comp sci. I'm a current year 12 student studying maths ,physics,computer science and I want to be like you studying comp sci at Cambridge , however I wanted to do 4 alevels and add further maths into my 3 options , unfortunately due to a timetable clash I cannot do so . Shall I stick with what I've got or drop computer science for further maths?

You're really great at making videos. Consider that for making a living.

Dude, why don't you join Google , Apple, Microsoft, Facebook , Symantec or other big companies

"snacks in the post" lololololol

I thought you've quit your job again because youtube wouldn't show the red line at the bottom of the video, phew it's good to know that we still get employed vlogs

how much they will pay you

Your voice sort of reminds me of young Morrissey's... very soothing

Well I wish you luck in life and hopefully you find a job you love also you should apply to work at Google or even RU-vid

Good luck mate, I am sure they'll be ripping their 1000$ suit sleeves just to get you to work for them.

same things are happening to my current employer.

It's not snacks in the post and it's not surveys , it's Data and Analytics !

Oh no Jake baby what is you doin?

Fighting!!!!!!!🤗🤓😎

Why did I get a notification for this?

I personally would have sucked it up for at least 6+ months, but good for you mate!

Jake,you should go work in the Silicon Valley.It would be great culture and super content for us😜

No more colourful end screen?

Forget working for other people, grow some balls and start working for yourself on something you're passionate about. You are definitely intellectually capable, whether you are emotionally and mentally capable I don't know.