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I was doing contract work so layoff was part of the game. That's started after I had my first child. Permanent job sometimes requires no paid overtime. It's not possible with contact work. I got paid 1.5 in some cases. I even got paid per diem, money was not taxed, so many perks. My husband provided the health benefits, I brought home the bacon.
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I guess it depends on the type of engineer and where you live. I know hundreds of engineers. None I know of been laid off or had any trouble finding a job. I've had headhunters contact me for many years.
Maybe you were not in the right place at the right time. 90%(or very large percentage of it) of engineers were laid off during the tech bubble burst, for many it took years, not months, for many they never found job again. It happened very quickly unfortunately.
I'm sure that is so. By tech bubble you mean the 2000 software tech bubble? I know oil and aerospace are also both feast or famine. But that had been pretty well known since 1976 for as long as I have been working. That is a choice/chance one takes in those fields.
I was never fired from any job and I was laid off for around 3 months from one job. The hospital was committing Medicare fraud and all of the funding was pulled until it was straightened out. I almost always had more then one job and if one wasn't to my liking, I could just walk away. I actually started working at around age 10 doing odd jobs for money. I worked full time my senior year in high school cleaning a school after school. I could walk to it from my house, which helped me buy my car. I kept that job and worked full time driving a school bus when I was 21. I had all of my quarters in for social security when I was in my middle 20's. I started my own insurance agency at around 26 and that money paid for my college to become a Respiratory Therapist in my early 30's. (I met John and needed to do something that gave us more time together.) We started to invest in real estate rentals in addition to working our jobs. I may not have always had conventional jobs but I've always worked. Well not since I was 58 anyway
Got my first job in high school and worked almost continuously until retirement. Most of it was self-employment; had a printing co. and construction co. so never developed a career. Odd jobs after that with one 5-year break to travel the Pacific Crest Trail on horseback.
Latest job was seasonal so it was fantastic having winters off (with unemployment!). Planned to work a couple more years but joint problems intervened so took early retirement (60).
None for either of us. DW had only a few months off after we left Korea where our daughter was born and back to the grindstone for her. Same here for me. Just a 2 month break for me when I was laid off before Christmas and by Feb I was back at it too.
I took off a few years to do useless things. I took old Timothy Leary a little too seriously when he told me to turn-on, tune-in, and drop-out.
But America is a wonderful place - it allows anyone to reverse course and change his/her life. So after 8 years of surfing and other pursuits I returned to college, got a PhD, had a fun professional life and am now happily retired. And the funny thing is after 40 years I have returned to what I loved all those years ago - surfing. Go every day I can here on Maui.
I started working when I was a teenager and I worked until I was 25. For over 20 years I have been a stay at home mom raising our kids. I recently got a job working for the state and I plan on working at least 15 years. I had to go back to work and get a good job because we could no longer afford to buy health insurance ($2,000 a month).
Worked right out of high school but was a functioning alcoholic for years until it got the best of me and I didn't work for 3 years before I got straightened out. Sober for 33 years now.
I am 55 and probably should be working non stop the last 10 years of my career but I turn down overtime and really value the time off.
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