That’s exactly how I’m feeling right now, after working +20 years for a company that’s looking for the cheapest way for them to get rid of me.
I don’t want to sound like an asshole, but why did you dedicate 20 years to a company? Stuck in a shitty location/education that only gets you employed in a few companies?
I’m nearly at 7 with my employer and I’ve found the situation to be quite good and I see no sign yet to jump ship. There’s still good gigs out there.
I’m sure the person you are responding to had good reason to stick around 20 years. It’s possible only recently did the math not work out for them.
There’s definitely something to be said about having a job that doesn’t suck too bad, pay is ok and raises keep up somewhat (though of course not as much as it would via job hopping), coworkers are alright, commute isn’t terrible. And then you wake up one day and realize that 20 years went by.
This is pretty accurate. For my current field I’m tethered to just a handful of locations in the country I could work at. This sounds like it will describe my situation in a decade or two as long as they don’t get rid of me before
