I'm 40. I've always rose to the near top of whatever industry I was in. I was a solid team player, super nice, company guy. I worked the overtime, decorated for holidays, I had spirit.
I was the best in email, on the phone, and in person. I can learn computer programs easily, am very able bodied, and disciplined.
After 26 years of boss after boss not giving a flying “F” about me no matter what sacrifices I've made, I don't know what could get me to work for someone again.
I'm taking a break now to learn some other skills, and that's going well, but it's high time to start looking again and I just can't take the bs.
I don't know how I'm going to react when another employer tells me that the position I'm there for doesn't exist anymore, but the one just below it does and you can work your way up.
I don't know what I'm going to do when, say that doesn't happen and I get hired… the first swipe they take at my healthcare.
Verbal disrespect, denial of raises… the list is so long of things that I don't want to deal with anymore, and are common place.
I may be the odd one out here, but I can't be alone in this situation. I feel like this has happened to other people in my age range.