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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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FutureCEO said:
Not counting 2 part time jobs. I have had 6 full time jobs since college. Soon to be 7 hopefully.
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My working career in architecture began 3 mos. before I graduated from high school. A local firm came to my drafting teacher and wanted know if he had a student that could ink brochures for a home builder. I had more experience with pen and ink than anyone else in both 3-hour drafting classes (I had taken art classes in junior high and early high school), so he recommended me. I interviewed, and they hired me directly. I inked the brochures in the evenings after school, and then, after I graduated, they asked me to come on full-time.
Including that firm, early in my career I worked full-time for 5 different firms, before ending up at the current firm shortly before Carolyn and I were married. We wanted to buy a home and start a family, so things needed to be more stable work-wise.
For the most part, everything has gone pretty much according to plan…!!! ;)

Good luck, regarding your next job…!!! :)
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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StarWarsGirl said:
Yeah, Dad got in a very good spot with his law firm. The owner was an awesome guy. Unfortunately, he passed away of a heart attack in his fifties. It was when I was in high school. He came to work that Friday and we got the call Saturday morning. We were really afraid that the law firm was going to shut down, but fortunately, the older son had already passed the bar exam and the younger one was studying for it, so they were around to keep the firm going so everyone wouldn't lose their jobs. It was scary there for a while, but thankfully they were able to keep their major legal contracts going and they still have their three locations. Dad is actually the longest tenured person there since his original boss passed away. He's got a very cushy job, though. He says I've got a cushy job and I'm like "Didn't you just show up at work at 11 am after taking two weeks vacation?" 😂

Mom, had she kept working, would have been more like me. She was an executive assistant and job hopped to where the money was. Had she not quit her job after I was born, she would have been looking for another one because her company was acquired and she found out the person who replaced her had her position eliminated. Such is life in the corporate world.
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Things like that are definitely always scary, especially if you have a family depending on you.
We still have plenty of work, but, having lived through 2 full-blown recessions in my career, I’m all too well familiar with how that can change in short order.
A bit of a running joke is that I came with the firm. I was working for the original owner well before he partnered up with the 2 older partners. Sans the incorporation date, I’ve been with the firm longer than they have.

I’ve seen so many employees come and go from the firm over the years (many after years, some after only weeks, or even days) that I can’t possibly remember them all.
So, yes indeed, regarding the corporate world.
 
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Lilofan

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donaldtoo said:
Things like that are definitely always scary, especially if you have a family depending on you.
We still have plenty of work, but, having lived through 2 full-blown recessions in my career, I’m all too well familiar with how that can change in short order.
A bit of a running joke is that I came with the firm. I was working for the original owner well before he partnered up with the 2 older partners. Sans the incorporation date, I’ve been with the firm longer than they have.

I’ve seen so many employees come and go from the firm over the years (many after years, some after only weeks, or even days) that I can’t possibly remember them all.
So, yes indeed, regarding the corporate world.
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I had wished I was more liquid in 2009 when a number of folks lost their homes/jobs. Condos were selling on the cheap when their values freefall like someone going down Summit Plummit at Blizzard Beach. A few in my area are selling and being bought currently at 5x more from what price paid during the recession. For a downfall there is a tremendous opportunity to buy low then later sell high.
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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donaldtoo said:
We still have plenty of work, but, having lived through 2 full-blown recessions in my career, I’m all too well familiar with how that can change in short order.
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This reminds me of one of my bosses (who was in his late 60s at the time), from a job I had many years ago. We had pulled out of a long downward financial spiral, and the company was hiring more people, with better salaries and benefits.

One of the younger salesmen commented about how it was great to get back to normal. Without skipping a beat, the boss said, "I've learned in life that whenever things get better, people think things won't ever get bad again. And when things get bad, people think things won't ever get better again." From his years of experience, he was sharing that business is an ebb and flow dynamic, and people need to stay on their toes.
 
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Lilofan

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MinnieM123 said:
This reminds me of one of my bosses (who was in his late 60s at the time), from a job I had many years ago. We had pulled out of a long downward financial spiral, and the company was hiring more people, with better salaries and benefits.

One of the younger salesmen commented about how it was great to get back to normal. Without skipping a beat, the boss said, "I've learned in life that whenever things get better, people think things won't ever get bad again. And when things get bad, people think things won't ever get better again." From his years of experience, he was sharing that business is an ebb and flow dynamic, and people need to stay on their toes.
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Great way of thinking real world. During the 2008,9 recession my neighbors, friends and peers made changes in life not by choice ( selling cars back to dealer, pulling kids out of private schools or college , selling home items through garage sales, pawn shops , forgoing vacations, cut back on eating and going out etc etc ). We fortunately did not have to go down much that road. We put away a certain amount of earnings monthly in a reserve account just in case the sky is falling like it was during the 08,09 recession. I read that in 2023, 58% of drivers do not have cash to afford a car repair bill over $1K and have to take on more debt to pay it.
 
rshell68

rshell68

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Lilofan said:
The Munsters , Spot the fire eating dragon. Watched every episode many times. Grandpa , Al Lewis had a pizza place called Grandpas in NYC back in the day and he would show up and talk to the guests.
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