How stable is your job?

[eljefino]

My employer is 99% funded by advertisement, not a reliable revenue stream. But our contracts are generally ~6 years long which help mash the highs and lows and our assets are still worth enough some other operation might buy our plant and continue business as usual.

I'm in the "meat & potatoes", last-on-the-line, on the floor dept, if I don't show, nothing gets done.

 

[The Critic]

Originally Posted By: eljefino
My employer is 99% funded by advertisement, not a reliable revenue stream. But our contracts are generally ~6 years long which help mash the highs and lows and our assets are still worth enough some other operation might buy our plant and continue business as usual.

I'm in the "meat & potatoes", last-on-the-line, on the floor dept, if I don't show, nothing gets done.


What do you work for, a television or radio network?

 

[stroked93]

I work for A Big Box Auto Parts Retailer. Needless to say We are Hiring! times are better than ever!

 

[The Critic]

Originally Posted By: stroked93
I work for A Big Box Auto Parts Retailer. Needless to say We are Hiring! times are better than ever!

You must work for AutoZone!

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: buster
True, it's world wide. It's going to be interesting to see if the U.S. can maintain it's edge globally. According to doomsayers like Schiff, the U.S. is in for a rude awakening in our standard of living. He often jokes about how China is more capitalistic than the U.S.. They also can pay for their own stimulus w/o borrowing. It has to end. Baby boomers have really failed.
I would have to agree 100% . The living standard has to drop to get the U.S. into the new world order. I have been reading about this since 1970. I though it was B.S.but over the years I have watched it develope bit by bit.

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: buster
I was laid off December 4th of 08 after 8 1/2 years. First job out of college. Several of my friends have been laid off. My dad is out of work and my father in-law as well. I have not seen things this bad in my lifetime. I am very concerned about the future of this country.
Your life hasn't been long enough to see a whole bunch. I have seen this before we will survive. I was laid off my job for a year in 1981 I did what ever I could to make money and I learned it feels way better instead of for example buying a $50,000 sportcar and the added costs of maintenance,own a $20,000 car and have $30,000 in the bank + due to the lower costs when bad times come they will not be so bad. My Grandma taught me about going through the depression before WWII.

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: Shagger
Originally Posted By: SuperDave456
... you would think the first people to cut would be the one's who make the most $$ and are on top.
Unfortionately it is the middle management and the temp guys working on the very dregs of the company. The guys who change their own oil....
That's what burns me up, the top level guys who made the bad decisions and lost kajillions of dollars still HAVE their jobs (and probably got bonuses!) while the lower level rank and file are going to be cut. Not a whole lot of justice there, in my opinion.
SO TRUE!!!

 

[Steve S]

Originally Posted By: cousincletus
A good start would to get private money out of politics. Trans national corporations run this country and we owe our souls to the Chinese.
The big money owns all the government. Our politicians serve a different master .

 

[firemachine69]

I drive a bus. About as stable as it gets.

 

[FowVay]

I'm a aircraft inspector at a major airline. We have the largest engine overhaul facility in North America and our business is booming from airlines all over the world. However, I don't believe our flight operations division is making any money. Once the Northwest/Delta merger is completed and if the economy isn't starting a rebound then there will be downsizing again and layoffs.

Most likely the technical operations division will split from the parent company and operate as it's own MRO where it has been very profitable over the past 10 years. I have no idea what will happen to the rest of the airline. We're the biggest in the world now so there is certainly some interest in keeping it flying. We have buying power,, but no money. Could we be compared to General Motors?

 

[eljefino]

Originally Posted By: The Critic
Originally Posted By: eljefino
My employer is 99% funded by advertisement, not a reliable revenue stream. But our contracts are generally ~6 years long which help mash the highs and lows and our assets are still worth enough some other operation might buy our plant and continue business as usual.

I'm in the "meat & potatoes", last-on-the-line, on the floor dept, if I don't show, nothing gets done.


What do you work for, a television or radio network?


We generate useless memos and broadcast on the side.

 

[peterdaniel]

I am a Registered Nurse, been one for about 10 years now. I do critical care Transport and Emergency. I can also teach. Right now I have as much work as I can juggle, about three people's worth.

When I was in high school and in college to some degree, I held a variety of jobs and all were the kind that were throw away. They were done with you so see ya! No job. I hated that. I made the decision that in this world you need to work at something that depends upon the frailty, inevitable nature of human beings. Something that they will always want, can't control it themselves and will always need. I wanted something that I could do on many different levels, go anywhere I want to go and always, always have a job.

I think I figured it out pretty good.

However, I am not lost on the situation around me and its terrible. I decided to cut my costs, pay up my debts and save save save. I never think I am irreplaceable.

 

[Cutehumor]

Originally Posted By: peterdaniel
I am a Registered Nurse, been one for about 10 years now. I do critical care Transport and Emergency. I can also teach. Right now I have as much work as I can juggle, about three people's worth.

When I was in high school and in college to some degree, I held a variety of jobs and all were the kind that were throw away. They were done with you so see ya! No job. I hated that. I made the decision that in this world you need to work at something that depends upon the frailty, inevitable nature of human beings. Something that they will always want, can't control it themselves and will always need. I wanted something that I could do on many different levels, go anywhere I want to go and always, always have a job.

I think I figured it out pretty good.

However, I am not lost on the situation around me and its terrible. I decided to cut my costs, pay up my debts and save save save. I never think I am irreplaceable.


me too. My wife just finished in 12/08. She is now saying their is a hiring freeze at her hospital for registered nurses. I heard other nurses say their traveling contract got cancelled so they are now working staff. The economy is having an effect on us as well. Nursing jobs are there but you have to be more mobile. Nashville doesn't seem to have a nursing shortage at all, there's 9 nursing schools within 40 miles. In Memphis, TN, they are dying for nurses. They pay is higher, they give bonuses for a 2 year work committment, but then again you have to live in Memphis, TN.

My job isn't secure. I work for a health insurance company that handles only Medicaid. We are funded by the State. Our whole office had to submit an updated resume to our respective managers yesterday to include the job we do now with our company. They said it was for a "company audit" Rumor has it that some managers got fired in another state for lying on their resume, they just graduated from college with no related work experience. So I'll have to see what's up, my wife thinks I'm safe since I got a bonus on my last paycheck and some didn't.

The only way I figure I'll be in serious trouble is if the State starts kicking people out of the medicaid. We start losing thousands of medicaid members.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Irrespective of how secure you imagine your position, worrying will do nothing to change the situation.

 

[wavinwayne]

I think I'll go to work in the funeral home business. Everybody's got to die some day. Steady work.

 

[tom slick]

I'm currently a student, business is good, I'm paying for it. Those who are paid by the school on the other hand, not so good.

I'm reentering the job market at the beginning of next year, I hope thing are looking better then.

 

[MarkC]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
Originally Posted By: cousincletus
Originally Posted By: Pablo
With making money and turning a profit now seen as evil and greedy, NO ONE in the private work force is safe. If this garbage keeps up, watch out.


Could you explain?


No. Not here. But I will say even on BITOG if a company is profitable they are called greedy, crooked and worse. If a company is not profitable....uh they aren't paying the folks for long.


I think you're whining a bit much in the wrong direction. Making a profit isn't what's greedy or evil, it's how you make it, and what you do with it that can be greedy or evil, or just untasty.
If someone(you, me, a corporation, a government) regards making money as the paramount goal, with no conscience about how it's done, or what happens to others as a consequence, well yeah, that's greedy and wicked.

The topic? My own job seems okay for the moment, even working some OT.
I just ran a self-defense class for a dozen 8-12 year-old kids and made $60 for 2 hours. If I had insisted on being greedy, I could've charged each one $20 or $30, but then maybe half of them wouldn't have been able to come.

 

[Drew99GT]

I'm up to my eyeballs in work right now - tax man/accountant.

But I hate my job and I literally have to punch myself in the face some mornings to get me up. I'm glad I don't work for a larger business or Corp, as a lot of finance people are getting the ax.

I do feel blessed that even though I dread going to work in the morning, I do have a job! And I should get a healthy bonus this year since I'm working so much (guess where I'll be till 6 tonight)(I take a BITOG break every chance I get though

).

When (if???

) the economy turns around, I'm planning on making some kind of career change. Something other then sitting in an office all day. I've always thought truck driving would be a great fit for me until I did some research into it. If you think you get treated like scum at your job, thank your lucky stars you don't work for a bottom of the barrel trucking company like Swift or Werner.

 

[NJC]

Originally Posted By: MarkC
Making a profit isn't what's greedy or evil, it's how you make it, and what you do with it that can be greedy or evil, or just untasty. If someone(you, me, a corporation, a government) regards making money as the paramount goal, with no conscience about how it's done, or what happens to others as a consequence, well yeah, that's greedy and wicked.

Well-stated.

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: wavinwayne
I think I'll go to work in the funeral home business. Everybody's got to die some day. Steady work.


Watch out for outsourcing...

If drywall can be shipped from China to the US and still make a profit selling it, then cadavers can be shipped to China. Who knows, you might come back to the US as drywall or in a milk product.