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jose bagge

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I've spent the last 31 years working with the same company running retail auto centers- been bought and sold 4 different times but I stuck with it and grew 30 of the most profitable stores of their kind anywhere in the US.
Several months ago, some company politics led to me floating a resume around for the first time since college...low&behold I got a hit from a great company offering more money, co car, less hours and best of all- not retail...holidays and weekends are days off and not sale days!
SO...the end of an era- 31 years...and at 52 I reinvent myself starting tomorrow.
anyone been through the same, this late in the game?
 
Congrats on what seems like a good gig. But from my experiences, I say come back in 6 months and tell us how you like it, and if it was everything you were promised it would be. BTDT in the past, and promises "changed" as time went on.
 
Go ahead give it a try..The company you work for now is going to get rid of you soon because insurance is going to be to high for your age bracket...good luck! but don't burn the bridge..
 
Good for you!! Go for it!! I also ran auto centers for a Major retailer. I started when I was 19 years old & retired at 44. 25 years was enough. I haven't looked back once. I'm typing this from my retirement home in remote Yukon Canada. Gerald
 
I hope the best for you. I re-invented myself at age 48, going to work for a large family owned company. What I didn't know going in was that the family had college age children sent off to business school, and at age 53, I was out and the kid were in. So I spent five years cultivating a really good job for a born with silver spoon in mouth guy. Four months later I found out there is a three month statute of limitations on sueing for age discrimination. It is ten years later now. So at age 63 I'm already drawing my SS check, and finally got my own small business going. In retrospect, it all worked out, but I would have rather done things my way.
 
Yea, did that this spring at the age of 53. My friend, who is 57, and I were both fired by a shop, so we leased the service bays of a closed car dealership, opened a shop. We are doing great and have never looked back.
 
You're lucky. That's not late in the game, dad retired when he was 65 and my grandfather was forced to work until he was 72.

Don't complain, some people have it pretty bad off. Especially these days.
 
Congrats.. Hope this job is great.. There are some hard decisions in today's economy.. About all you can do is follow your instincts, and hope and pray that things work out for the best..

I am in a similar situation, same age, and 30+ years in the tool and die trade. Winding up a 17 year partnership, and trying to decide what to do for the next 12 or 15 years. Most tooling work has gone to China, so shop work is scarce, but I am not able to think of another career at this stage of my life..
 
I'm doing the same thing right now at age 74. I finished the project I was working on at the insurance company a few weeks ago, and suddenly a bunch of auto body work appeared for my shop on the farm.

An old customer of mine called a couple of evenings ago and asked if I'd be interested in doing a complete resoration on a '76 Chevy short box 4wheeler. I would. That's my specialty. I've always wanted to write a step by step manual on restoring '73 to '87 Chevy pickups and Blazers, and this project should provide a lot of the photos I'm needing. Plus more work has materialized.

The thing is, I told someone the other day that if I was to declare myself retired, I'd keep on doing exactly what I'm doing now.
 
good luck. With a new company, especially the first new place in 31 years, you'll see a lot of things that are very different. Some of those things welcome, some not. Be careful how many times you say, "when I was at...."

There is a very good book, "The First 90 Days", by Michael Watkins. I'd recommend buying a copy.
 
Best of luck to you! I left a 20 year gig at a major dairy plant. Worked my way up to supervisor for 14 of those years. Got screwed over and resigned. Got picked up by a local pet food manufacturer that moved into the old Agway plant 3 years before. They had me start up their new second shift. That was 9 years ago. Been a lot of work and hard hours. I make less now than I did in the dairy plant but have never been happier with my work. That makes it all worthwhile.
 
i have been doing the same job now for 34 yrs working on a asphalt plant.i will be 53 this year i would like to go another 15 but its getting tougher to climb around every year so wee will see about that RICK
 
Well after being laid off twice in 20 years permanently from large corporation. I have had enough of large corporate BS. So I have reinvented my self again and bought True value hard ware store from a women who wanted to retire and now work for my self as I always wanted to. It has only been two months but so far so good and am having a ball. It is like when I worked on farms as kid 7 day's a week till I am better on my feet and can afford more then a part time helper. I did not know it at first but I have been in training for this job now for some 30 years.
 
jose bagge, Just remember well what someone hit on briefly. DON'T say this is how we did it at the old place and especially DON'T add how sorry this place is doing it. If the old place was so great why are you not still there? This is what folks will start thinking.
 
Congratulations to you on your new job.

You are very fortunate to be able to change jobs in today's employment situation.
 
If he's good at what he does, they'll be able to see it pretty quick. People change jobs all the time. There is too much politics/BS in a lot of companies, especially bigger ones or family businesses. Dave
 
At 42 I went from Hands on Foreman in a concrete block plant to dispatching/salesman in Ready Mix Concrete and at 48 went back to full time farming.
Not making the $$$ now that I was but being able to do what I want just about every day is worth alot to me.
 
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