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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
Why thank you for that massive generalization...my father has a bachelor's degree in economics. He was laid off from Norwood multiple times. Then GM shut the plant down. Luckily he was able to transfer up the highway to Delphi, but look what happened there...
Oh yes. He worked hard all right. So hard that it sent him to the hospital twice. Yet he still ended up having to take early retirement earlier than he wanted to.
And Scott's right, Dayton is going to go into economic crisis mode the minute Moraine is shut down. Do you remember what happened to Norwood when GM shut that plant down?
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My father worked 15 years for a growing advertising agency in St. Louis. He grew a creative department from 15 people to over 100, opened an office in Kansas City, and developed strong relationships with clients in the agriculture industry, including RoundUp and John Deere. His boss decided that he was too expensive and asked him to leave. He gave his professional career to a company to get screwed long after the headhunters left, so he had nowhere to go. He took pay cuts up to 25% to find a job that he's overqualified to perform. He went to college and did well only to get screwed.
I'm coming out of college in December. I've been on 5 interviews and have had no one talk to me since any of them. I've worked hard through school to build some impressive sales experience, but I'm going to get no job security out of school. What could I possibly have done differently? This market is terrible. I'm not responsible for it. I didn't take out mortgages that I couldn't afford, but I have to hope and pray that someone picks me up within a month of graduation or I can't afford to live. Do I deserve that?
I don't want to be mean or harsh, but not everyone who gets screwed gets screwed because they made a mistake.