I’m sorry but I fully stand by what I wrote. Seeing many jobs with short tenure indicates something is wrong, either the person is too hard to please or the person isn’t good at their job. I will most certainly pass on that candidate unless there’s an extraordinary reason not to.
1 or 2 short gigs is bad luck. A resume filled with short gigs indicates that the person probably has issues. I don't need to take a chance on hiring this person where there are dozens upon dozens of qualified candidates with better grades of resume.
Sorry, but this is reality. The next job you get, I suggest you tough it out for 3 or 4 years or more to show that those short gigs aren't the norm.
You don’t seem to understand. No one owes you a job. It doesn’t matter what their reasons are.
Is it fair that you get discriminated against because of your claimed bad luck? No. But that is the reality of the situation. You need to accept this instead of whining about it. But a bunch of short term jobs means you’re either a job hopper or you have been fired very quickly many times. To be honest, assuming you’re a job hopper is the better of the two assumptions.
Instead of trying to fight it, I suggest you figure out a way out of it. Get a new job and stick with it for a longer period of time. Or don’t include some of the jobs on your resume when you apply for a new job. Or put on your resume that you had short term contract positions and now you’re looking for permanent positions.
I have over 25 years of experience. I need to do leetcode every night so that I can compete against kids half my age for the same job. Is that fair? No. I have over quadruple their experience. But it’s the reality of the situation. So instead of whining about it, I’m studying leetcode every night so that I can find a new job.
Saying that I am "whining" when I tried to ask for an alternative take on a seemingly suspicious situation clearly shows who is "whining" here and who came for a discussion. Saying "it doesn't matter what your former employers' reasons were" is also making me doubt you are even interested in discussing at all or just came here to throw your opinions at me. We no longer live in slavery, you know?
I do most of the things that you said I should. I understood that I got through a bad period, realized that parts of what I do would only perpetuate it since I became negative and it started showing in interviews (and that means that some of them got cut short because of it -- and yes that absolutely was my fault). But then I changed things around and now I am in a better place. Literally and figuratively.
It would help you in your life and work to judge less or, failing that, judge in not such a quick manner as you did here.
