1 Career for 20 years with 3 different companies - Production planning, SC Planning, Forecasting

Company A for 12 yrs & 4 job changes, then my division was sold to Company B and worked for them for 1 year, went back to Company A for 1 year, and the have been at Company C for almost 6 years.

I respect people's loyalty that stay at one company, but I do believe you never get true market value when you do this. With my offer increase received from Company C and then the rasies and promotions the last 5 years, I have pretty much doubled my salary from where I was at before the change.

Funny how life works out. This was not my plan out of undergrad. Had applied to 2 top Sports Mgt. Grad Schools but did not get into either one, so went with Plan B which was an interview with a Fortune 500 company from a job fair that I attended.

Also had another opportunity 1 year after undergrad to be a women's grad assistant basketball coach and get my masters degree. I declined because I did not think I could handle coaching a women's college team only being out of college 1 year and I was used to having a paycheck and nice things. If it was a boys' position I probably would have taken it.

5 non-career jobs during the first 8 years - then I started at the Postal Service, and retired last year after 33 years. I held 8 different positions there, from clerk to training manager to maintenance support manager.

Spock;1840415 wrote:He doesn't have a career. He has a job

For years I thought of USPS as my postal "career" - then serious shenanigans began drastically affecting me in terms of the selection and promotion process and pay incentive system. After the first incident, (coming in second in a field of two, to a person with zero experience - and NO interview), I considered my career to be over. From then on I had a job for the next 9 years, and it was like that until the end.

The amazing thing was that a similar incident happened again 4 years later (different person with zero experience), so it cemented my attitude that I would never again be "engaged" (always hated that buzzword) in my career. I just made sure I showed up for my job each day.

arnie palmer;1840490 wrote: I respect people's loyalty that stay at one company, but I do believe you never get true market value when you do this. With my offer increase received from Company C and then the rasies and promotions the last 5 years, I have pretty much doubled my salary from where I was at before the change.

I've always heard this as well. Not sure how true it is, how ppl don't like asking for raises, get complacent, etc...

I spent 8 years in college coaching. Not in college coaching anymore, but still working as a coach (primarily) and doing some other odds & ends with a company (secondary).

Gives me more stability, more time at home, and closer to home without the politics (budgets, salaries, complaints, etc.).

One career: Digital marketing

But I've worked for six companies and in a variety of roles.

Zunardo;1840571 wrote:

For years I thought of USPS as my postal "career" - then serious shenanigans began drastically affecting me in terms of the selection and promotion process and pay incentive system. After the first incident, (coming in second in a field of two, to a person with zero experience - and NO interview), I considered my career to be over. From then on I had a job for the next 9 years, and it was like that until the end.
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I thought USPS was union or is management/supervisors not?

salto;1840977 wrote:I thought USPS was union or is management/supervisors not?

Correct. APWU is the bargaining union for clerks, I was in it for 15 years before I went into management. Management employees have an "advocacy" group called NAPS, but they have no true bargaining power or grievance representation, so they are not a union in the labor sense.