Sarah in SC
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WhoDares, let's embrace the place! I'm right there with you!
I have the same rather checkered (albeit interesting) job history.
I have the same rather checkered (albeit interesting) job history.
About the same, we call it the "ski slope career", I'm going downhill fast, laid off twice as tech continues to consolidate, pretty much need to make what I've got last, at my age the prospect of getting a gig at a start up of small tech co is nil (why hire someone who is 50 when the work force is teeming with 30 somethings)......it was fun while it lasted.
In many ways it is sort of freeing as I don't care and don't have to play the bullshit that is often associated with moving up. I am high enough in the company structure that I don't have to worry about retribution if I piss someone off (unless it is the board!) so I feel I can just do my job the way I want and finish it out without ever implementing "the Peter Principle'.
Anybody else feel that way? That they are as high in their job as they will ever go? If so, how do you feel about it?
It sounds like you're saying that you don't want to make a risky long-term investment with money that you're going to want to use for retirement in a few years... seems like smart asset allocation to me.In order to go to the next level (partner) I have to buy my way in, and frankly I don't think it is a good investment for me! It is an excellent company but the return is out of sync with when I want to retire. That in combination with what I see as a lot more stress for not really that much more money---I honestly think I would decline. I have talked to my friends in associated firms (and here) that are at that level and I just don't like the terms that they had to agree to. Then I see the stress they have, and right now that level is the one that is taking it in the shorts financially to keep firms afloat. Now granted in good times that is the level that also makes the big bucks but I don't see the good times coming back robustly before I retire (2015 or 16).
During my "tragic years" (e.g. when I was still wor*ing, but still a member of MegaCorp), I felt exactly as you do, today.I guess it is correct to say that I'm where I want to be, as well. I never wanted a corporate job and I don't want to own my own business, so this job represents, if not the zenith of my abilities, the intersection of what I'm willing to give up in exchange for that check every couple of weeks.
And you have time to post here (in the middle of the day)?I've been in a corporate VP role for ten years.
Hey, have a little consideration for the poor employees who can get their own work done while their career-zenith bosses are distracting themselves with this board...And you have time to post here (in the middle of the day)?
Get back to wo*k ....
Are you saying that we have a "boss from Hel*" represented here ? ...Hey, have a little consideration for the poor employees who can get their own work done while their career-zenith bosses are distracting themselves with this board...
Are you saying that we have a "boss from Hel*" represented here ? ...
And you have time to post here (in the middle of the day)?
Get back to wo*k ....
And you have time to post here (in the middle of the day)?
Get back to wo*k ....
He seems to fit the mold, assuming he isn't really a 16 YO girl posting from her mom's basement in Missoula.
Yep, I'd probably be your worst nightmare as a boss, even worse than all the others you've told us about.
I'm thinking how interesting it would be to have a brewski with some of your subordinates
I bet his many former subordinates would be even more entertaining to chat with.
I went as far as I could without being a political appointee who would have to survive a confirmation vote (which is as far as the average white, heterosexual, non-Hispanic male with no political connections was likely to get under the administration of that time). My personal goal had been the position just below that level, and it sucked. The unasked-for promotion past that point was the kiss of death to the last bits of enjoyment I had in my career.