The more things change... (2 Viewers)

[Vassago]

I can't believe even Pat left. What is happening around here these days?

I'm still not working in Access, but I have finally left a company that completely killed my motivation after 20 years. I now have a new job that I absolutely love. I'm also getting to experience and learn so much new tech, every day I'm thankful that I finally had the courage to change jobs.

Sometimes the grass really is greener. If you are in a job with terrible management where you are not appreciated or treated fairly, don't let them take advantage of you. You deserve better. At the very least, just do the bare minimum until you cash find something better. Don't break your back for them. I think I'm older and wiser now than when I started, so I can say so.

How is everyone? It's nice to see some familiar faces still around. I don't think I've been here since Covid started.

 

[moke123]

I don't think I've been here since Covid started.

Yea, January of 2021. Welcome back. Congrats on the new job.

 

[Isaac]

Congrats on the new job. ~3 years ago I found a job that emphasized sql server and snowflake development and was lucky to get it (lucky meaning I wasn't totally qualified but they took a chance on me anyway). 3 years in and I now want to retire from this company some day - meaning for the first time in many years, I'm not 'keeping my eyes open' for a new job, I actually want to just stay here permanently. The company has been known to do small layoffs around once a year to reshuffle things, so I may or may not get that chance, but if I am lucky enough to I believe I will stick around indefinitely. It's a great feeling to be stable, glad you found something that is worth YOU

 

[Vassago]

Yea, January of 2021. Welcome back. Congrats on the new job.

Thanks!

Congrats on the new job. ~3 years ago I found a job that emphasized sql server and snowflake development and was lucky to get it (lucky meaning I wasn't totally qualified but they took a chance on me anyway). 3 years in and I now want to retire from this company some day - meaning for the first time in many years, I'm not 'keeping my eyes open' for a new job, I actually want to just stay here permanently. The company has been known to do small layoffs around once a year to reshuffle things, so I may or may not get that chance, but if I am lucky enough to I believe I will stick around indefinitely. It's a great feeling to be stable, glad you found something that is worth YOU

Yeah, just be mindful of changes. I felt that way at my previous company as well. Then, a lot happened and ownership and management changes occurred that made the place just... a shell of what it was. I hope it doesn't happen to you. It took about 13 years and a move on my part across the country before things really started going downhill, naturally AFTER I moved. Oh well, I'm happy now.

 

[Cotswold]

Changing management predicts so much but often gives so little.
I have lost count of the number of companies that took 50 years to get to where they were and were then destroyed in less than five with a takeover.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Working as an employee of a military contractor was interesting because you learn patience. In 28 1/2 years as that kind of contractor, I changed jobs 8 or 9 times (depending on how you count a corporate buyout). With a different manager for each change! And yet my business phone number and street address changed only 3 times. My job title changed 9 times but my job duties never changed even once - until I learned Access well enough to be productive with it about 25-30 years ago and added (not replaced) an extra couple of tasks. I outlasted all but one of the contractor companies, and even for that one I was enjoying it enough that I stayed 2 1/2 years past my nominal retirement age. But the Navy finally did something that told me it was time to go - and I did. They escalated the requirements and I wasn't willing to go back to school for another round of certificates.

Having said that, I can also admit to having run into a management team that lost me because they were a bunch of conniving sharks and showed me their true colors. The first real-world company I worked for got bought out after 12 years and after a lot of gyrations, they dissolved the branch where I worked. I had talked with them at length about them taking over our product line, but they basically screwed over a customer because they had a bug that would be expensive to fix and they said "He didn't have enough retainage on his contract, so we cut him loose." I had valid reasons to not take the required transfer/relocation, so I parted company with them. But they were definitely the type to take the fun out of business.