Is it possible?

[usmfiz]

Is it possible these days to actually work at the same place, for the same people, long enough to retire?:smt102:smt102

[kevin]

Oh No! Not without killing someone.

[OTM]

Is it possible these days to actually work at the same place, for the same people, long enough to retire?:smt102:smt102I'm trying. Done 18, 7 more to go.

[fusil de asalto]

Is it possible these days to actually work at the same place, for the same people, long enough to retire?:smt102:smt102
No. Jobs last for two years then you find another one. That's been my going rate since about 2001.

[chaz]

Any government job or major utility (AT&T, MS Power)

[fusil de asalto]

Any government job or major utility (AT&T, MS Power)
Sign me up.

[EricStratton]

Is it possible these days to actually work at the same place, for the same people, long enough to retire?:smt102:smt102

I think I know of about 3 or 4 people in my profession who have done it....

In coaching, when you try to stay somewhere for a long time, it usually turns out badly.....see Jeff Bower and USM.....see how Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden are being nudged out at their schools....

There is no such thing as loyalty in my profession....I'll stay until I get offered a job that pays 10K more or when I get fired, then I'll move....rinse, repeat....

[Remington]

I've got 4 more years to reach retirement but today's generation doesn't want to stay in one job for a long time. Years ago, it was unheard of to be job hopping but it's commonplace now and even expected. Our grandfathers would work at one place until retirement and were very faithful to their employers.

[fusil de asalto]

I've got 4 more years to reach retirement but today's generation doesn't want to stay in one job for a long time. Years ago, it was unheard of to be job hopping but it's commonplace now and even expected. Our grandfathers would work at one place until retirement and were very faithful to their employers.
Problem now is employers aren't very faithful to their employees. They start stepping all over them because they have been there for so long that they don't expect them to leave. Also, they want to stop giving raises to employees. Employee's get upset because new people are hired in at more money than the older, experienced employee's make.

[EricStratton]

Our grandfathers would work at one place until retirement and were very faithful to their employers.

And there employers were very faithful to them.....that is uncommon these days as well....

[IFARM]

when they start giving a two week notice to fire me, I'll start giving a two week notice I"m leaving.......:smt118.

[Rainey]

I think I know of about 3 or 4 people in my profession who have done it....

In coaching, when you try to stay somewhere for a long time, it usually turns out badly.....see Jeff Bower and USM.....see how Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden are being nudged out at their schools....

There is no such thing as loyalty in my profession....I'll stay until I get offered a job that pays 10K more or when I get fired, then I'll move....rinse, repeat....

You are a football coach? I should have figured it out from the sporting thread, but I wasn't sure exactly. HS, JC, or college level?

[Rainey]

when they start giving a two week notice to fire me, I'll start giving a two week notice I"m leaving.......:smt118.

Don't do anything to get fired, and you'll be ok :smt023

[Fire Extinguisher]

I stuck it out with the COH...ten years past the date I could have retired. I am now working on another.....the plan is to be retired again before age 60.

[Bahlk]

My 14th anniversary at my job passed yesterday. Only 11 more till I can retire at the feeble age of 47.

[Engelbert Humperdinck]

I've got 6 more years till I'm eligible to retire, but I'll probably go ahead and stay 10, max out the retirement benefits. And I'll only be 51, if I make it that long. I've begun having lots of hypochondriac symptoms...a few weeks ago, it was my heart going bad, then it was West Nile, this week it's been the diabetes. I just don't know what's killing me today.

[hendrixfreak70]

When I was 13 I thought I had AIDS. Thing was, I didn't know what a woman looked like, nor a needle. And to stay on topic, it would be hard for me to stay on somewhere for an extended length of time, unless I was getting paid 150K a year.

[mac]

Don't do anything to get fired, and you'll be ok :smt023

Bull. If a company wants to fire you, they'll find a reason. You being a couple years away from retirement is a good enough reason, from what I've seen a few people go through.

[hendrixfreak70]

There goes kuntry!! And Niki!!

[kuntrykruzin1]

here is the real problem. by the time we get to the age where we can retire it will cost more to survive per year than you make per year now. you will have to have one heck of a 401k or a state or fed job that will pay good retirement benefits and work another job just to survive.

[kuntrykruzin1]

There goes kuntry!! And Niki!!
shouldnt you be at home right now? :woohoo::hitit:

[hendrixfreak70]

shouldnt you be at home right now? :woohoo::hitit:

He!! no, these clowns are still here. I hope they leave soon. I got some beer that has been calling my phone and I CANNOT ANSWER IT. :cry:

[hendrixfreak70]

Golden brown!!!

[Rainey]

Bull. If a company wants to fire you, they'll find a reason. You being a couple years away from retirement is a good enough reason, from what I've seen a few people go through.

Ah, that doesn't sound like much fun.