meri75 is offline meri75 Post #1  June 24,2010, 3:02am
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I've been with my current employer for nearly 12.5 years now. The path my 'career' has taken, well, I pretty much got to where I am by very little planning. I had two goals really:

1. Get employed in a job I like and I think I could nut out a little career path.

2. Once I got Goal 1 down, I found an area of the business I really liked and was good at and refused all promotions outside of that department.

I had to wait longer than most of my peers for promotion, but I do feel it was worth waiting.

What has your career path looked like? What was/is the most rewarding experience for you?
 
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dwreese182 is offline dwreese182 Post #2  August 12,2010, 12:23pm
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meri75 wrote :
I've been with my current employer for nearly 12.5 years now. The path my 'career' has taken, well, I pretty much got to where I am by very little planning. I had two goals really:

1. Get employed in a job I like and I think I could nut out a little career path.

2. Once I got Goal 1 down, I found an area of the business I really liked and was good at and refused all promotions outside of that department.

I had to wait longer than most of my peers for promotion, but I do feel it was worth waiting.

What has your career path looked like? What was/is the most rewarding experience for you?
My career path in a nutshell: "Follow the money. Be loyal to no company."

I have never heard of a company, after laying someone off, offer to help them get a job. They don't care about you, why be loyal to them just to get burned after 18 years of hard work?
 
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meri75 is offline meri75 Post #3  October 1,2010, 10:25pm
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dwreese182 wrote :
My career path in a nutshell: "Follow the money. Be loyal to no company."

I have never heard of a company, after laying someone off, offer to help them get a job. They don't care about you, why be loyal to them just to get burned after 18 years of hard work?
If my employer makes people redundant, as part of the overall redundancy package, they:

* pay one month of salary to give you time to look for a new job;
* give you access to professionals (they brought them onsite last time) to tweak your resume and give interview tips and general advice.
 
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US Army. Easiest job in the world.

Before I joined I thought I would get yelled at all the time and never get any freedom. Now that I've been in 5 and a half years, there's not much yelling and I've averaged about 4-8 weeks off a year, not counting at least once per month 3 and 4 day weekends.
 
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dwreese182 wrote :
I have never heard of a company, after laying someone off, offer to help them get a job.
In all my 45 years, I've only seen this done once. Even then, it was more of a personal mission on the part of the HR director. She took in the resumes of everyone being laid off. She was quite well-connected, so she called in favors from higher-ups in other companies. Most of the people ended up with no break in employment, but there are some people that you just can't help.

But this really was a rarity. My own company is always bragging about the jobs they are creating. Meanwhile, they know they are going to be elminating some jobs (like mine) due to new technology and won't tell the workers what they will be looking for as far as education or experience for the new jobs. Just cold.
 
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