Posted on 05/17/2019 3:17:54 AM PDT by C19fan
Sorry to hear that. There’s truth to, “if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.”
Hope you find your niche sooner than later.
Well, there is something to the old question “do you work to live, or do you live to work?”
How long ago was that study?
In tech industries now, staying that long at one place would be seen as suspect.
But those who were moving up in a company would be more likely to stay longer, thus showing that staying that long was something of a path to success.
Yes, the number of vice presidents in American companies was always a wonder to Europeans!
The nexus was that you’ll advance faster by changing companies every five years than if you stay at the same company. This would have been in the mid-eighties.
That is standard now for companies afraid of lawsuits, though I am not sure the angle of your point.
The stupidity is beyond comprehension.
Right, that was about correct then, when staying too long at one company was a sign that you weren’t as flexible or as much a go-getter — or as much in demand.
Since then, the pace of common moves has picked up, so you are not as often dinged for changing companies significantly more frequently than that.
Again IMO such that poor performers can often get by with frequent moves that would have exposed them previously.
A few times I told my bosses I don’t want a fancy title; I want the money, office with a window, flex hours and other perks. It always worked out. I quit twice, but both times they lured me back within hours with more. Ah... those were the days!
I had a very choppy resume, but my skill set, photofinishing engineering, was in high enough demand that moving around was pretty easy. I retired before the advent of digital cameras left film cameras for dead.
Goink goink goink!
Thanks; in the meantime, I’m fortunate compared to others unable to find work.
True; I think the issue with young people is they want the things we had to work for...without the work. Certainly pushes some towards socialism; it doesn’t help that the motivated ones just don’t see a lot of reward for their work (at least in expensive states like here in NJ).
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