Hi Charles,
I think you hit it on the head.
I've been in IT for 40+ years, 25+ with the same company.
My skills now are much different than they were when I started. Else, I
wouldn't still be here!
I started as a DASD Administrator - to get my foot in the door. Then
SysProg. Then AS/400 SysAdmin - 3 times. Then linux, unix (Solaris, HP-UX)
SysAdmin, VMware Admin, etc....
Now, AWS training! All while still doing z/OS SysProg work.
It's a whole different world these days. Staying relevant is the way to
stay employed, at least in my case.
Just my $0.02USD worth.
Happy Friday, everyone!
BobL
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Charles Mills
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Job Loyalty [ EXTERNAL ]
> "No company will pay you as much to STAY as another will pay you to GO"
As an entrepreneur interested in employee retention I gave this a lot of
thought. Why should this be? After all, one would think you should be more
valuable where you already are: you're all trained, there is no need for a
reference check, your co-workers are used to working with you, etc., etc.
I decided it was a management failure -- and even more a co-worker failure --
to see an employee as s/he could be rather than as s/he was when s/he was
hired. The interviewer sees you as you are today and where you could be in a
couple of years; your boss, and especially your co-workers, remember that
newbie doofus they hired five years ago.
I resolved to do better, to try to see people as they could be. I would like to
think I had some success.
For a small company, as I had, if you do things correctly you have the opposite
problem. A small company can sustain growth of 30% or so a year fairly readily,
and even higher when you are tiny. Most employees do not grow that fast: they
aren't 30% better every year. So you don't have a problem with employees
outgrowing their jobs; you have a problem of job requirements outpacing
employees. You start out billing $500K/year and hire a clerk to handle the
invoicing. With 30% compounded growth, five years later you are a two million
dollar company. That clerk has probably not grown in five years into an
accountant suitable for a two million dollar company. Yes, you can train
people, but not very fast. 9 out of 10 employees do not like to be pushed out
of their comfort zones.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of John Mattson
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 9:30 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Job Loyalty
Loyalty is dead in the workplace. Companies will dump you in a flash
unless they have an immediate need, and employees should be ready to take any
better offer which comes along. I coined a phrase many years ago "No company
will pay you as much to STAY as another will pay you to GO".
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