| Take this mnemonic device to heart: Risk, Experiment, Listen and learn, Engage, Value, have an Attitude of gratitude, say No to negativity, and invest Time. | |
| — Steve Kayser | |
| From the article: “Baby Boomers Risk Irrelevance in the Workplace“ | |
| [Located at one of the many blogs I follow: http://www.govexec.com | |
| The specific post was: http://www.govexec.com/excellence/promising-practices/2014/06/baby-boomers-risk-irrelevance-workplace/87070/?oref=govexec_today_nl | |
| — KMAB] | |
| . | |
| On This Day In: | |
| 2013 | Lacking |
| 2012 | So Small A Thing |
| 2011 | Is Your Time Valuable? |
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wonderful!
I like it. In Sha Allah I will Be a R-E-L E-V-E-N-T.
Lol!!
While it can pertain to anyone, the article this is from is meant for those in the “Baby-Boom” generation (as a warning) as advice to keep employment. But I think it applies to everyone… Unless you’ve faced age-related discrimination in the past, you may not be aware of how pervasive it is in the modern economy.
I see. you are so good in analyzing these sayings.
(smile) I am in twenties so I have not faced any discrimination. thanks to Allah.
have a nice day
In the IT field, it usually starts in the early 30’s. In many other fields, late 30’s and early 40’s. In almost all fields, once you’ve hit your 50’s, very few companies want to hire you. Generally, they feel you will be too set in your ways to take supervision and training well. There are also a lot more medical issues once folks (mainly men) hit their late 40’s.
amazing !
IT is very interesting.
Information Technology is a wonderful field to make a career in because it is so pervasive across all other industries. The problem with it is that IT takes ability and knowledge (training and experience), but most modern companies are only willing to pay a low to moderate wage for either. Because the skills learned (education, training and experience) are almost entirely transferable to your next employer, most companies want you to come in with useable skills but don’t want to pay for you to increase (or maintain) them via additional training. They are quite happy for you to pay for it yourself – so they can take advantage of the added skills, though. Also, the biggest problem with IT is the half-life of the education, training and experience can be quite short when compared with other industries. This is another reason companies don’t want to pay for it. Next, there are limited opportunities for advancement in the main industry of the company, so good people have nowhere to go to get pay increases as they gain more experience. This forces the good people to move to new companies for more money. At a certain age – usually about 35, you find, companies want to promote from within, so they don’t want to hire you in just so you can earn more money. Finally, there is little acknowledgment that great IT folks (particularly programmers) can be 10 times more productive than good ones and good ones can be 10 times more productive than average ones. It is normally not feasible to have a great IT person getting paid 10 to 100 times more than the average IT person in the same company. Industry “wants” to believe we are interchangeable cogs which can be replaced easily. This is not to say it (fungible IT staff) may not be possible in the future, but it is not currently true. Or, at least, that is my humble opinion.
Yes I do agree with you have written.
thank you for sharing this.
SHUKREN
Afwan 🙂