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24 year old burnout |
| Message Name: |
In current Recessions... |
| Date Posted: |
09/20/2001 |
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Hello, I just wanted to see if there was anyone else out there like me. I am a 24 year old person, laid off once from an IT firm. I ended up with a better company, but now there are rumors of the same thing happening again. I was always a top student, went to a good school, and did everything right. However, with all the stress and stuff, I feel like I'm 24 going on 45. I look at people who are in college, and they look so much younger than me. (I was only in college a few years ago, for God's sake!) Its amazing what I have gone thru in the working world at my age. I think it is unique for our generation for us to face so much stress so soon. In past recessions, it seemed like it was the old people who got screwed. Now, I have heard of many friends, acquaintences who have been laid off, or face a lay off. Is there anyone out there who feels like this, or has a similar story? |
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It's STILL the 'old people' who get screwed. I am one.
39, so just 4 months before I'd be able to take them to court with the EEOC. They kept 4 people below me with about 1/4 of my experience, but obviously less salary burden.
Stress...you face stress...I'll give you stress. Have a top ten MBA, a mortgage, a wife, a son, and get s**tcanned with no notice, no severance, no vacation pay, no medical. Spend 8-10 hours a day for 3 months to produce a grand total of 2 interviews! Get called back on one only to be cancelled because now that New York's blown up, their customer base is in the tank, and they will soon be too.
The only reason there are young people like yourself getting the shaft is that companies who got bilked for Billions in fees in the Y2K software implementation scam in the late 90's WOKE UP and cancelled their consulting contracts in the face of plummeting business. The game's over.
The sad thing for me is, you'll get hired back faster, as you have a few more years of life to be ground out of you before you hit my age where no one wants to mess with you. I'm at the unspoken manadatory retirement age for your line of work.
This whole thing will get much, much worse before it gets better.
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