Lullabelle
Midlands, England
At work we have a new member of staff, S is the finance manager and will take over completely when the assistant accountant, my boss, retires at the end of October.
Yesterday S was discussing staff length of service with our other colleague S D, most of us have put in over 20 years each. S D claimed that people stay out of habit, I didn't get involved with the conversation because that doesn't apply to me, 25 years of service.
The thing is, I am almost 50, have a steady job, regular income and company pension. If I left to work elsewhere and it didn't work out then I would be in a mess. If I was to be laid off from this job then the payoff should be good enough to keep me ticking over but if I moved on and was laid off after only a short time then I would get next to nothing.
I could not deal with that uncertainty so will stay until such time that I have to go, I am not staying out of habit.
Yesterday S was discussing staff length of service with our other colleague S D, most of us have put in over 20 years each. S D claimed that people stay out of habit, I didn't get involved with the conversation because that doesn't apply to me, 25 years of service.
The thing is, I am almost 50, have a steady job, regular income and company pension. If I left to work elsewhere and it didn't work out then I would be in a mess. If I was to be laid off from this job then the payoff should be good enough to keep me ticking over but if I moved on and was laid off after only a short time then I would get next to nothing.
I could not deal with that uncertainty so will stay until such time that I have to go, I am not staying out of habit.