Dedication to your job

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

Well, quite.

Not that anyone will pay to publish your ramblings, you senile old ****.

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cnut........

 

But I think that's a slightly different perspective. Your job is more than
writing and it's the writing part you love, isn't it?

I love the programming part of my job and I can see myself doing that for a
lot longer than a possibly retirement. But on *my* terms. I'd see
retirement more as an opportunity to eliminate the parts of work that I
don't really care about. Like spending far too much time in meetings.

 

Which is a lot less, and doesn't get you the related benefits that DLA gets
you. My Pa is registered disabled - war wound, would you believe - and gets
naff all from a grateful nation.

Ali

 

He'll turn into LJK Togright, won't he?

 

Not as much that older people can't contribute; more that someone in the
same job for a number of years is less likely to get fresh ideas about
how to do it.

I suppose it does at some point. Then again I don't expect much from
society in retirement, maybe a health service but not much more than
that.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip

Nah. He'll never be that good.

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But that only makes sense if you presume that someone of 65 is retired.
If you remove the concept of a fixed retirement age that would no longer
be reasonable.

 

I don't think I accept that, entirely. Certainly it's possible for
someone who's been in one job for a while to become a bit complacent and
just coast along without paying as much attention as they might have done
when their job was fresh, but that doesn't have to be the case. It's also
possible that someone fresh out of school may have more knowledge of the
latest thing in their particular field.

But that needn't be true. My experience of inexperienced but
well-qualified staff is that they're not a lot of use. Most of their new
ideas are crap. (This might not be the case in all industries, and
perhaps I've just been unlucky.) Where companies run suggestion schemes -
mostly manufacturing and distribution rather than IT/IS - most of the
cases I've heard of of really good suggestions have benn made by staff
with many years experience.

If it's simply time-in-job that's the problem, then employers would
receive benefit from switching their staff around; providing them with
more variety. (That might also help remove dependence on particular
staff.) And education is easily dealt with. My soon-to-be-ex employer is
pretty good about providing training, although I know that not all
companies invest a lot in this.

A lot of companies might resist any such changes in their employment
practices but it may be necessary to do something different soon.

Ah, well I was suggesting that society's obligation to its citizens
doesn't have a time limit, so neither should their obligation to it,
(although the form thatt obligation takes might well change with time).