It’s Going to Be Time to Hit the Eject Button

smitty_p said:
I'm at least 13 years away from looking at retirement.

Unfortunately, I'm in a position where I think it's best to look for another job. So, for me, the "eject button" is really a matter of ejecting from my current employment and pushing "Play" at another company. I wish it were a matter of going into retirement.

I have plans for retirement. I want to gig more, and I really want to get involved in some sort of philanthropic work.
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Well, what a difference a couple of weeks makes. I just landed a new job, thank God. I will probably get my offer letter about the middle of next week.

There is some travel involved, but I'm making better money at a much more stable company with opportunities for growth.

It's an international company, so I may cross paths with some of our non-US members! Or, maybe I'll see @SG John in an airport!
 
smitty_p said:
Well, what a difference a couple of weeks makes. I just landed a new job, thank God. I will probably get my offer letter about the middle of next week.

There is some travel involved, but I'm making better money at a much more stable company with opportunities for growth.

It's an international company, so I may cross paths with some of our non-US members! Or, maybe I'll see @SG John in an airport!
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Good for you. Hoping it all goes well and the transition is an easy one.
 
smitty_p said:
Well, what a difference a couple of weeks makes. I just landed a new job, thank God. I will probably get my offer letter about the middle of next week.

There is some travel involved, but I'm making better money at a much more stable company with opportunities for growth.

It's an international company, so I may cross paths with some of our non-US members! Or, maybe I'll see @SG John in an airport!
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Fortunately, I'm only flying for pleasure these days. I have been asking at my company for a position to get me out of field service. My body can't take any more of the physical abuse associated with the job. Unfortunately younger folks aren't knocking down our doors to fill the many job openings we have around the country, so they're not letting go of any of us older techs. I may have to break my promise of wanting to stay with the company a few more years, and look elsewhere. Or, throw in the towel on my next birthday and hope social security will still be there. Unfortunately there is a lot of age discrimination going on. My industry isn't as badly affected by it because young pretengineers don't know their arses from their elbows. The ripple effect of someone over sixty leaving a company is usually quite damaging.
 
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SG John said:
Fortunately, I'm only flying for pleasure these days. I have been asking at my company for a position to get me out of field service. My body can't take any more of the physical abuse associated with the job. Unfortunately younger folks aren't knocking down our doors to fill the many job openings we have around the country, so they're not letting go of any of us older techs. I may have to break my promise of wanting to stay with the company a few more years, and look elsewhere. Or, throw in the towel on my next birthday and hope social security will still be there. Unfortunately there is a lot of age discrimination going on. My industry isn't as badly affected by it because young pretengineers don't know their arses from their elbows. The ripple effect of someone over sixty leaving a company is usually quite damaging.
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Same for the repair business. Been tractors, combines, industrial equipment my whole career. Same story. No newbies wanting to do the work. When I got out of HS in the early 70s, wasn’t uncommon for classmate to forgo college and go straight into an auto dealership or agriculture dealership like I did. Plumbing. Construction. That just isn’t happening anymore. When I started in the business there were a lot of 20 something’s where I worked. When I retired at age 67, the average age of the mechanics at the marina was somewhere in the 50s. We had one or two 20 somethings and a few in their 30s and 40s. The rest were 50s and 60s.
 
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