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.
Forgot to include your name on the last post.
(Flame on!)
Cheers!
What are you going to do, quantum tunnel the oil to the gas stations?
Cheers!
Troll Vulcan has been here five years longer than you newbie.
I trade for myself. I worked full time in a distribution warehouse till I got it off the ground. When I wasn’t running political campaigns from the city to congressional level, a little truck farm operation on the side till gas prices ate up the profts, and a bit of consulting here and there for some added-value ag projects. I have worked 80 to 90 hours a week for oh, about 10+ years.
Do you realize just how stupid this statement really is?
If one of you skilled math and science (LOL) fellers misses a decimal point here and there the moon is a billion miles away and Obama's economic plan makes sense!
If I’m in a business or political meeting I could care less about minor details like that.
Son this isn't a business meeting. It is an Internet forum where the way you express yourself is the typed word. You have proven to be a failure in said endeavor but that is not surprising.
Maybe you can find someone to give you a clue because Alex is laughing at you too.
To wrap things up I don't want one such as you trying to find my ass either. I am a straight married man and you are on the wrong forum for that type of searching.
So funny because oil and gas is one area where technology is changing the game radically.
Thanks for making my point, in an indirect way.
Mowing is as rare as rain down here!
We got just enough rain for the dogs to get a little muddy and track it in. The yard is screaming, "Is that it! That is all we get!"
You’re pretty much a mouthy punk. One who would never work a day for me. I’d be thumping you on the back of the head too much telling you to shut up and do your damn job.
You’re right, it is an internet forum, and I’m going to be even less worried about perfect grammar and punctuation. Now THAT is retarded.
Well, then, by your OWN metric, you sure haven't learned how to keep up.
I trade for myself. I worked full time in a distribution warehouse till I got it off the ground. When I wasn’t running political campaigns from the city to congressional level, a little truck farm operation on the side till gas prices ate up the profts, and a bit of consulting here and there for some added-value ag projects. I have worked 80 to 90 hours a week for oh, about 10+ years.
So, naturally, after all that time under the glass carpet, and on the outside looking in at people who work only 45-50 hours a week, with regular vacations, you're understandably a little bitter.
You know, you'd have done far better, and will continue to do better, when talking to managers, to emphasize your STRENGTHS and EXPERIENCE, and how they play into your client's needs. Telling a manager you're going to take their job within a year or two only works in the comic strips.
If you look promising, sooner or later they'll slot you for a management role, because despite all appearances, GOOD managers (ones who help the company long term, instead of just building an expensive useless personal empire) are *very* hard to find.
And the best ones act as a blocking fullback for the people under them: who then stay with the company and go the extra mile even before being asked.
Cheers!
Hell, I would have been flopping in the mud with them. I know you guys need a shift in the jet. Get Ready
Thank you.
It’s been...quite fun...reading this thread.
I always imagine *shudder* what Holiday dinners must be like in some of these homes. Are these Xers as rude to Mom and Dad as they are here?
I...work...for...myself.
Do I need to say it slower?
Horizontal drilling, improvements in imaging algorithms for search, deep water (oops! maybe some problems with leaks, eh, BP?), sure.
But not so much in refining and distribution, sales and marketing, and, (again) TAXES.
And of course, if Obaama gets his way, oil is going back to the dinosaurs from which it came: unless you believe in abiogenetic theories.
Cheers!
Technology can assist in moving product but it doesn't get a box of stuff delivered where it needs to be and on time. That takes people skilled in logistics not a bunch of whiners playing with their gameboys and not shutting up long enough to learn something.
grey_whiskers is right. I bet you are a mid thirties fellow who's boss is a twenty year old high school drop out and it is just eating you up. IF you have a job that is.
In Tennessee we are scoping out the deer right before the Turkey is carved. :^)
Do I need to say it slower?
Only if you're talking to yourself.
Cheers!
so take your "lamest" and apply to your own kids if you want....
its MUCH MUCH harder for these younger people no matter what they do , they're not getting anywhere too quick...
you would think the older generations would try to inspire and educate instead of deride....
Nyuk nyuk. Before I die... my dream is to go to northern Wisconsin and do the same thing with my big bro.
I feel like I am, being you rambled on about me in middle management something or other. It was a bit of a muddled post.
It has been a fun thread...but when I participate in the generational warfare threads..it is disheartening.
Yeah, I see the holiday dinners in these homes:
Mom, turn on the lights and the heat!!
Mom, why didn’t you fix my favorite pie!!
Mom, can I borrow a few hundred to tide me over!!
You finally got something right!
If I ever get involved with another lemonade stand it will be to help my grandson and my first piece of advice to him will be to not hire whiny little bitches like you!
Re: Retarded. I notice you spelled the word correctly. Probably just copied and pasted it from one of my posts to you or simply copied it from your birth certificate.
You’re right, it is an internet forum, and I’m going to be even less worried about perfect grammar and punctuation.
LOL, so you are going to continue to proudly look like an idiot because you cannot "keep up" by using spell check?
Boy, I wouldn't hire you to shave chickens. They would just outsmart you and you'd be shaving yourself.
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