Institutional Memory
It's been a long time since I've blogged about something educational, other than my classes of course. With one thing down (and a million more to go), I decided to take a little breather to see what's accumulated on Pocket over these past few months. I saw a post by Martin Weller on Institutional Memory , and it seemed quite pertinent to my day to day work existence these past six or so months. Martin points to a BBC article indicating that the optimal time in a specific job is around 3 years. This isn't the first time I've heard this. About 11 years ago (wow!) I was working for my university library. I was new to the Systems Department (the IT department in a library) and my supervisor was new. When we were getting to know more about each other's work histories (before you could look at LinkedIn profiles), she had told me that she aimed to stay there for a few years and then move on. People should only stay in their current work for 3 years...