Hey, this is the Daily Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps!
Today I wanna talk about how sometimes it's really useful to move to a new place!
Alright! So I've mentioned this a few times already in past videos, and I talk about it on live
stream - we're moving to a new office here pretty soon!
Yesterday I picked up the key.
And it's actually a little bit more of a smaller office, more expensive, but it's much nicer!
This office is above a shop and it's super cheap.
The new one is in a business park, so there's a break out room with a Foosball table in
it, there's a gym and showers, and it's kind of out in the countryside more - it's just
a nicer experience!
And there's no bagpipes playing outside the window every so often on really nice days.
So, I'm so excited over the last month to move to the new office, but last week when
ear spy was removed, it was like two days before I was supposed to get the keys to the
new place!
And it's a little bit more expensive, actually it's quite a lot more expensive.
So my first instinct was as soon as I got the ear spy cancellation where they said they
were gonna suspend ear agent, I went down to the new offices and told them "I don't
think we're going to be able to move in", and they were like "but, you have a one year
lease!" and all this kind of stuff.
I said "what are my options?"
And they go "well, we've already patched all the networks..." "yeah, I don't care, we might
just have to not come in!"
And then after I left there, just looking at it it seemed so much nicer and I thought
afterwards, just thinking about it throughout the day "no, you know what?
I need the change of scenery.
I need to go someplace new".
When i was working in jobs as a contractor and as a permanent employee, after about two
years I would just get bored with the place and wanna move on.
Not so much to the new job, although yeah, that was something too, new people, new responsibilities,
new technologies to work with and all that kind of stuff after two years.
But it was just the change of scenery.
Going someplace new.
I like to go out for walks at lunchtime and after a while you've seen everything, you've
been everywhere, you get into this rut!
So I'd always move around a lot.
I found it made me better as a developer, better as an employee, all this kind of stuff.
Because a lot of times, when you started a new job, you might not be really good at everything
and everybody kind of remembers the mistakes you made, but then after a couple of years
you're really good at it but some people still remember the mistakes that you made.
So you go to the new place and they've never seen the mistake.
You don't take the baggage with you.
They're just like, "hey, Eric, he really knows his stuff, he's really switched on".
But then, of course, you take on more responsibilities, new technologies, more stuff, and you suck
at those to begin with too.
So you go through that progression again and then you go to the new place.
And it's something I would recommend to all developers is to not stay at the same place
for a long time, unless you wanted to get into management or something, which is something
that has never really appealed to me.
So my salary has always been - my salary or my data rate has always gone like - it jumps
a lot.
If you stayed in the same job, you might get a five percent increase, I don't know what
you would get.
You would get incremental increases in your salary which would be cool, but I find that
if you're jumping around a lot, your salary could go up 20 / 30 / 40 percent, based on
the responsibilities and everything you take.
And also it's just a breath of fresh air, it's like a new lease on life.
You're like ok this is the new me, this is the new thing we're gonna do!
But, when you're running your own company and everything like that, it's different because
you can't just leave!
I can't leave my own company because what kind of idiot would I be then?!
So, I worked at home for a couple of years and if you look at the early videos, they're
from my attic so it's like the blue wall behind me and everything like that.
There's not a lot of space.
So I was working from home for several years, and then just over two years ago I moved into
this office, and then it was like everything changed!
The business didn't change, I still had the same people on my team, I just felt like I
had a place to go, and it was like this is the base of operations.
It just felt like, in my head, it felt like a real company and I felt more productive
and I was more productive getting stuff done, but then after a while you get into the rut
again, so moving to the new place, I'm really looking forward.
There's a lot more natural daylight in there and things like that that I'm just really
looking forward to working in, and just a new environment.
So when I'm taking on these new responsibilities, because I can't rely on that passive income
so much anymore, that'll get me in the right stage.
So, my question to you guys is, do you find this?
Do you find that moving jobs every so often just helps you stay fresh and it's more motivating?
Or do you find it better to stay in the same place that you've been in?
Anyway, that's it for today, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow...maybe from the new office,
I'm not sure, maybe from outside someplace!
I'll talk to you again tomorrow!