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Posted: Fri 8:03, 18 Mar 2011 Post subject: Hermes Handtasche |
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once a bastion of stability where “lifers” traded a career’s worth of devoted service for guaranteed employment. No more. After divestiture,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was declared “surplus” or “at risk” on three different occasions. He always managed to save himself at the eleventh hour, but the uncertainty took an emotional toll. “I was clinging to my employer like a prisoner to his jail bars,” he says. At age 47,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was eight years short of a full pension and,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], if he could help it, he wasn’t going anywhere without it. But eight years is a long time to spend hanging onto the edge of a lifeboat. He didn’t make it. Right after his 50th birthday, the company offered him a new package that made leaving more palatable. It cost him 25 percent of his pension to walk away. But, at his age, he figured it was a better alternative than staying. He no longer wanted to spend precious time passively waiting to leave—especially because there was no guarantee he could last another five years. “Ten years ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it would have been heresy to say you wanted to leave Bell,” he says. “Today, it’s idiotic for someone like me to stay.” It helped that he’d built a strong financial safety net through his 25 years of service. “If I didn’t take the risk, I knew that I’d always regret the missed opportunity,” he says. “That seemed like a bigger risk than not trying.” ACHIEVING CAREER SECURITY IN TURBULENT TIMES :^) Once free, he gambled again—this time on a franchise operation. Last I heard from him, h
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