Sort of. Long story, and even after all these years there are aspects of it I prefer not to tell to avoid the appearance of throwing anyone else under the bus. But here's the brief summary:<p>I'm a Java developer first and foremost, "by trade" so to speak. And back in 2007 I'd never written any Python professionally and had only done the more minor amount of development with PHP. So, there was this company that was primarily a Python/PHP shop, <i>BUT</i> they had this one project that was in Java. They were using a popular F/OSS ERP/CRM application that was Java based, and so they wanted at least one "Java guy" in-house to help support and integrate that.<p>So they hired me. I gave my two weeks notice at my old job and then started at the new job.<p>In that interim time, they cancelled the project they hired me to work on.<p>So on my first day of work at the new job they go "Hey, we know you're mainly a Java guy, but we cancelled that project. Do you mind working in PHP and Python?"<p>I mean, what was I going to say? I'd already quit my old job at this point. So I stayed, learned Python, wrote a bunch of Python code and some PHP. But it was never a good fit really, and then the 2008 financial crisis happened. They started laying people off. And I didn't get laid off. Then they did another round of layoffs. And I didn't get laid off. Things kept deteriorating though for various reasons, and finally they offered me a voluntary layoff and a nice severance package. So I took the money and ran about having been there about 14 or 15 months.<p>It was an interesting experience, and maybe I should have bailed earlier. But it was a fun group of people to work with, and I didn't mind learning and working in Python. And had it not been for the whole "global financial collapse" thing, maybe I'd still be there today. Or not. Who knows?
“You are not a tree. if you don’t like where you are, move.”<p>Happened multiple times to me and I recommend pulling the plug early. My resume has 3 jobs that lasted less than a year and 4 that have 5+ years each. People sometimes ask why that is so in interviews and my answer above always gets a chuckle and a nod.
I coasted for a year then switched. This was in the Great Recession, I didn’t want to have a short gap on my resume. But in retrospect it probably would have been fine.