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Originally Posted by Cowperson
In any event, the new trend we've been seeing is that people don't really retire outright these days. They become consultants and gradually fade away through time via less hours.
However, the subject codger in this case seems to need an attitude adjustment but, as others have pointed out, that could be true of anyone of any age.
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Originally Posted by kermitology
Actually it's frustrating in any role when you have something to offer but for some reason people don't listen to you despite the fact that your reasoning is sound and on the basis of experience, limited as it might be in some cases, that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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I think this is what I was trying to get at, but I said it in such a way to target a whole bunch of points - sarcasm, irony (I had just read the service industry, young people entitlement thread), somewhat of a rant at the fatherly lecture I had that day (although I do like the guy and I don't mind working with him even if I do the work cause he is otherwise a good guy when he's not trying to be a father)... but on a more serious note in what was a otherwise sarcastic opening...
I noticed in almost any industry that yes, you don't see people outright retire. They retire, but stay on as consultants... for the offset equalibrium of the number leaving versus the number entering, companies out there will need as much knowledge and experiance pushed onto the next generation from the past half decade to the next decade. Industry of every facet has seen a lot of things develop since the 1940's, and in a span of two decades (the past half decade to the next decade and a half) that is a lot of stuff needed to be pushed to people just entering their early careers.
The bigger point that I was trying to make (and I am sounding repetitive) is this - age is no excuse to look down on one versus the other. It was the fatherly "looking down" that I was getting at. I thought white text would have covered that, but apperently it didn't. Some of the best team work I've done in industry was when an experianced engineer/technician was complimented with mine or another young professional's up-to-date or fresh technical knowledge.
(Yes I do think 55 is old... probably because I don't really expect to make it to 55)