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.
Good for you geege, and hope it’s all that you wish for!
Thanks.....I hope so....I never ever want to be on unemployment again....
Deal with it.
LOL! I still like MY chart better! :)
Entitled? No, that word was unheard of until your generation came along.
I'm not a boomer -- they never bothered to name my generation -- but I know that "boomers" understand the concept of "work."
Pretty sure it is the school loans that are killing her. 8 years of school can do that.
A noobie Engineer at work mentioned, “In my experience”.
I promptly informed him that he had none and I didn’t want to hear him spout those words again.
I am the manager of my department and I have a simple policy. Everything is done MY way. I don’t give a damn how you did it at XYZ, Inc. We do it THIS way here. Like it or leave. Buck me and you will simply leave.
I have the experience and I ain’t going to retire anytime soon.
There is no market for *costume* jewelry, per se. Regardless, the Internet abounds with twisted wire and bead gewgaws. Vintage costume jewelry sellers on eBay are even seeing a slowdown in their business, after 2-3 years of very good sales.
The cost of precious metals is prohibitive for the average artisan. Reactive metals (Titanium/Niobium) are now nearly as expensive as precious ones. Anything cast (brass/bronze) takes expensive electricity to produce. Copper oxidizes on most people. Anything with set stones is cheaper if made in China or India. No one can compete with Indians for stones or with the Chinese for making the most out of the least amount of gold.
My husband would be back into the jewelry business in a nanosecond if the above were not true.
Your last advice is the most correct: she has it easy.
And, adding insult to injury, they leave you with a head full of gobbledeegook an inflated sense of your self.
lol, I think we must have graduated from the same management school.
Congrats!
I love hearing this!
Bull hockey. I heard too many boomer conversations and read too many Boomer writers to know that’s a load. Alot of boomers think they are the focal point of the history of Western civilization. I am a child of, worked with, and dated boomers and am well versed in what I speak.
Some of the boomers know how to work. Alot of them were AT work 16 hours a day and worked 1/2 that. Alot got paid way more than they were worth for doing 1/2 time. Schooling was cheap, you could be trained on the job, there were more jobs than people to fill them when the boomers got out of school, and alot of jobs paid well thanks to the unions till they got greedy.
And I also remember hearing and reading boomers complaining about the older generations ‘being in the way’. Wasn’t that the essence of the 60’s?
A large majority of people born since WWII have had it pretty good. I’m willing not to point fingers if they aren’t.
We keep being told that we don’t deserve to retire “on schedule.”
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Thanks!!!! It was a rough five months, I was turned down by a lot of companies.
Well, thank you for enlightning.
One thing your generation has mastered is the art of complaining. As for bad manners and wholesale disregard for the concept of "telling the truth," we'll leave that to another thread.
My brother did -- 2 years ago he literally dropped dead at work, age 61. Although I'm quite younger than him, I plan to continue working while God gives me the strength. I really have no choice.
I’m sorry for your loss. ;(
School of no work, no eat.
No mommy's basement for us.
All is not lost though, my daughter studied for half of the day yesterday for a difficult class with her friends at NY Poly. She has a drive to succeed and nobody is going to stand in her way.
She ain't whining, she is working!
I thank GOD I am in that middle triangle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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