A Man's Luck, Is The Deciding Factor

I once came across this video of Kevin Samuels who states “as a man by the time you are 40 years old you should of been promoted at least 3 times.”

This is one of my favorite sermons from Kevin, but unfortunately, it never seemed to come about in my case. I was never promoted in IT. I did make it to being an IT director for a small engineering firm but that was due to my luck of being hired on with that title from the start. That only lasted 6 months. My current job that I was just laid off from, also lasted 6 months. That’s because everything in corporate America is not based on how hard you work or how much you know of a profession. Its mainly based on luck. Thats it, thats the deciding factor that all men have to deal with during their working career. Unless you decide to say the hell with it all and either start your own business or give up and become a bum.

Kevin is right by the time a man is 40 he should have a stable financial foothold on life. He should have been promoted at least 3 times. I agree completely, however things have changed for every single person that was not born in the grand baby boomer generation. During this time frame men could easily get promoted. They could also change jobs on a whim. Everyone was looking to hire anyone willing to do the work after WW2 and when America had the world at their feet.

Now the game has changed. Instead of employers looking to hire, we now have employers looking to fire.

Since 2015, I have now been with 9 different employers. So in the past 10 years of my life, I’ve almost had a different employer for each and every year! This is getting ridiculous! But it is what most Americans are having to deal with on a yearly basis where they are forced to change employers.

I just got released from a job where I was the lead ticket closer. That means I was doing the majority of the work. Yet due to my “bad luck” of being hired on as a contractor, I did not fulfill the time needed to clear a 10% workforce cut. If they had just contacted me first instead of the contracting company, that they paid thousands of dollars to once they converted me to their company, I would of had the time in to survive the 10% workforce cut.

So here we go again, another possible 8 months of thousands of job applications and endless rejections in my email to be seen. Its like life gets put on hold until you have a paycheck each week. Here’s to going back on unemployment and having it on record that companies reject eligible candidates for jobs all because there’s always someone else willing to take the job at a lower wage. Here’s to not being able to negotiate a wage either, since all this should be done when you have a job already.

I hate this fucking shit!

I wish there was a system in place where being unemployed was just a technicality, instead of shunned, and that everyone treated your situation as an emergency. I wish there was one job website, instead of 10. I wish there where no more than 10 people applying for one job instead of thousands. Why cant our government treat unemployment seriously! How about a database of skills and previous work history that employers choose from instead of you having to apply for jobs? Wouldn’t that be a game changer!

Maybe this time I’ll get lucky again finding a job to be fired from in 6 more months. Where some recruiter/contractor calls me out of the blue for a decent paying remote tech job that I didn’t even apply to. They just saw my resume online and thought to give me a call. Or maybe this is it and I sell the condo and take off to another state hoping for a better life. Who the hell knows, I just wish I could stay employed long enough so that a could gain good financial foothold on life. If you have this already, consider yourself lucky!