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Poll: How long will you have your job?
November 8th, 2009, 12:00 pm · 19 Comments · posted by Jan Norman, small-business columnist
U.S. workers expect to change jobs on a regular basis, according to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports.
Tell us what you think then read what others said:
Just 37% of currently employed U.S. workers expect to be with their current employer in five years. That’s down 10 percentage points from July, according to Rasmussen phone surveys.
The results also reflect great workplace uncertainty: 38% are unsure how long they’ll be at their current employer.
One in 10 expects to be at the same company less than a year and 15% say one to five years. Click here to read more.
In an earlier survey, 65% expect to leave their job voluntarily. However just one in three expects the next job to be better than the current one, down significantly from earlier in the decade.
Such answers reflect the current negative economic conditions, according to Rasmussen Reports.
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How long will you have your job? Well, that’s a function of what state you live in. And if you live in California it’s a fair bet you will lose it sooner than in Texas.
I already lost my job It would be great if I could get another one one that paid a liveable wage They seem to be all gone.
People are treated like crap by companies now. You are nothing, but a body to complete their task of funneling millions into the CEO’s bank account. Then you are left with nothing. They slowly drain everything from you. First, living increases are gone, then they stop contributing to 401k, then they take 10% of your pay or more away from you. Then they decide to sell the company or file chapter 11 leaving you out of a job. That’s only if you work for a big company. If you work in construction, they simply lay your off without any notice. Good luck finding a full time job, or even a part time job. Plus the only jobs you can find have 100+ other people applying for the same job and the pay is 50% less.
I’m on my 5th job since 2007. Companies keep running out of work. Obama promised jobs an unemployment not over 8%. Well it’s 10.2%(17.6% if you count everybody) nationally and these political hacks are too busy worrying about government health care and spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have that nobody wants to actually worry about jobs and the economy. Miserable failure Obama!
sir you are so right
The absolute truth !!!!
What jobs are left?
All the manufacturing jobs went overseas. Theres plenty of work at Pizza Hut, McDonalds and 7-11, but the jobs that paid good wages left long ago. The good jobs that are available, most people dont have the education and experience for.
Obama can only do so much. He had to fight for money in the stimulus just to help kickstart the development of green energy technologies. The only way out of this mess is to start the commercial development of new technologies which utilize existing manufacturing lines and lead to industries, those being green energy and commercial spaceflight.
Capitalism did great for the country when we wanted to grow and be the financial superpower of the world. Now that profit trumps all consideration, those same companies have left us in the cold in pursuit of bigger profit margins and exponentially larger markets.
Big business is over the US for the most part. Their investments are in Asia because 6 Billion Chinese and Indians to sell TVs too is much more appealing than the 350m double mortgaged Americans. Not to mention labor costs overseas are a fraction of the cost that they are here.
We also have power to exercise with our dollars. We decide where we spend those bills, and if we keep spending them with companies who could care less about us, we’ll continue to dig our own graves.
Blaming Obama for this is pointless. He didnt create this phenomenon…he inherited it. Its really up to us, the consumer, to start voting with our dollar. Support local and small businesses instead of Wal-Mart. And we should start to boycott companies that move manufacturing overseas and still expect to charge the same price as if it was Made in the USA.
But honestly, its not Obama who is to blame. Its ourselves and the system of capitalism which values the dollar more than the country.
State will be laying off thousands of us come May/June. That will have an impact on unemployment, local business, mortgages, etc…
Structural changes have been taking place in the US economy for the last 20 years. Less manufacturing, more services like restaurants. I think this is because kids think that science is “uncool” to study in high school and they poke fun of other kids who like to talk about intelligent topics. So we have a dumbing down of America. Soon everyone will be working restaurant jobs.
Serving Chinese food to their masters. Wake up, America. The Revolution is almost lost!
We also spend over $60,000 per year on every inmate in prison.
But only $6,000 per year on every student.
maybe soon??? Im sure we will have Lay off before the Holidays.
this is for next year Cost….
Brian speaks the truth. One of the most revolting parts is how the company compiles piddly-squat “non-evidence” against the poor hard-working employee, then proceeds to tell him/her what an incompetent wreck he/she is so the low-life company can steal any hope of severence pay and unemployment from the devastated individual. These are the same people who were “competent” enough to work with the company for YEARS when they were needed. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, instead of just being told “We have to cut back”, the company turns it into an intensely PERSONAL insult to the employee and his/her PERFORMANCE. They’re treated as though they aren’t fit to live. No wonder so many people are “going postal” these days. You not only lose your job (whom many people see as a huge part of their “identity”) and livelihood, but they can’t let you leave with ANY semblance of dignity….they have to strip that away, too. It’s beyond shameful.
AMEN! I’ve dealt with the same crap myself. I hope more people go postal and stick it to those fatcat CEOs.
To all of those who have lost their jobs or those who know its coming:
They can and do strip you of everything BUT…
They cannot strip you of your vote.
Vote against politicians that have money given to their campaigns that support the businesses that laid you off.
Vote against politicians that vote against working people.
Don’t watch TV ad watch the actions of the person. They will say anthing to get elected. It’s not what they say but what they do that matters.
Vote!
Don’t blame Obama for this mess. It started way before Obama’s time, from Reagan to Bush. Blame those two. Obama is the clean-up man.
Gee T, why stop there? Go back to Lyndon Johnson and FDR.
Jan Norman
Jan, now you got it right. It started with FDR. Reagan did more for America than any president since Teddy Roosevelt. Obama and the Democratic Congress is doing more damage than our children and our children’s children will ever be able to pay for.
America needs to start thinking with our heads, not our hearts nor our purses. We need to encourage our youth to study medicine, the arts and engineering. We could then close half the law schools, and limit the number of MBAs.
Wait, wasn’t unemployment pretty high during the recession of 1982? And who was president during that time??
Interesting how the article reflects the harsh reality, whereas those conducting job interviews seem to have their heads in the sand when it comes to this. They’ll grill jobseekers on why they weren’t able to hold down their jobs for very long and tell you that it makes you look like a job-hopper, as if that was all the job-seeker’s fault. Even if they’re not that old, most of these interviewers seem to be stuck in the days when one could expect to hold the same job for decades, like my grandfather was able to do. They are very out of touch!