Posted on 09/18/2011 2:04:40 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
NEW YORK -- In Tiffany Spaulding's 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked for three companies, two of which no longer exist, and relocated to four states.
Now 39 and living in Brookfield, Conn., she hasn't had a promotion in five years and says she sees no chance to advance, stuck behind a wall of baby boomers. She would quit and turn her hobby of jewelry design into a business, she says, if not for the home and school loans that eat up half her salary.
Spaulding, according to a new report, is a typical member of the relatively small group called Generation X, 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1978: They're ambitious, squeezed by debt and frustrated by people who aren't retiring on schedule. More than a third hope to leave their jobs in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 members of Generation X by the Center for Work-Life Policy found.
Okey doke...If I own a company that provides jobs..I am obviously THE DEVIL. ( cue the Church Lady.)
Be grateful there are there are enough “typical of your generations” around to provide employment and take the risk associated with it.
But risk really doesn’t enter into your equation, does it?
Pay me for what
I think TheBear is drunk...or something..
It’s a pretty simple analogy. I don’t care if it’s my knife, you are the one who stabbed my wife with it. The fact that the knife was in my kitchen drawer changes nothing. My knife isn’t the problem. Their murderous criminality is the problem.
Parallel to - my complaining doesn’t make them any less incompetent, and I’m not a whiner because I’m telling them that they can’t do their job half as well as they think they do.
I don’t need to put up with it, they need to do their job. Trying to twist it around to my complaining doesn’t change anything. They are still incompetent and need to be fired whether someone complains or not. My complaining isn’t the problem, their incompetence is the problem.
Give me back my SS and I quietly away
“I’m a boomer. Give me my money back and I go away. I did not start this shit”
It’s OK, I’ve had enough of these punks on FR telling me I’m the problem.
There is no money you stupid liberal.
Sweet.
I have money
My son describes his generation as those who would poop on a plate, hold it up, and expect everyone to applaud their talent.
I’ve met many good ones. Nam vets mostly or in their circles. Practical guys who didn’t throw their parents wisdom out with the bathwater, but didn’t become hidebound either as technology changed. I’ve been illustrating the bad ones.
As I said in a earlier post, with any generation, 1/3 good, 1/3 mediocre or late bloomer, 1/3 bottom feeder or shiftless.
So do I. The difference is I realize there isn’t any money left in the Social Security fund. I also am not relying on it or clamoring for future generations to pay me.
I agree with you!
Someone constantly correcting someone’s English is the first sign of an idiot.
Perhaps you are too much of a simpleton to understand it?
That the knife is mine and in my kitchen draw isn’t the problem, you stabbing my wife is the problem.
My complaining about your incompetency isn’t the problem, your incompetency is the problem.
You sound some what bitter..for whatever reason.
Murderous criminality?? really?
You are saying everyone of the older generation is less competent and you are more competent? really? How do you know that?
The only thing I can deduce from our conversation is that you need a job...or you feel someone is standing in your way of a promotion.
You never really answered my questions from my previous post. So I must conclude that discussion with you is like a discussion with a Democrat. They can’t stay on topic either.
I wish you the best of luck..and good evening.
Good. Quit blaming me for it
‘Wisdom’ What does that mean? Sitting around, scratching your beard and waxing philosophically?
Wisdom is great if the chess board isn’t constantly changing shape, size, number and color of squares, and the pieces aren’t different every game. Knowledge and technology are making wisdom obsolete. The principals might not change, but the application does. Radically, as new discoveries and technology come ever and ever faster. Computers, medecine, mechanics farming...pick your industry. Technology is changing everything.
I talk to older guys in the game, the real deals are always saying ‘there’s so much more to know and it’s changing all the time’. I know mechanics who worked on cars for decades, and tell me they won’t even touch the cars of today, even their own.
Knowledge and wisdom don’t mean anything if it’s defunct tomorrow. The new wisdom is to take what exists and apply what you can to the new situation, and identify as well as possible of those basic principles that still can be retained. Well you hope anyway till tomorrow comes.
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