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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saying. Since 2008 market crash companies really cut back on internships, formal mentoring programs, training programs. They also stopped regular promotion cycles.

Then in place to retain workers they did free or cheap perks. WFH, Flex Time, dress down, paternity leave type stuff rather than spending money training and promoting staff.

Then 2020 came and all opportunities to learn and be mentored stopped.

Now in 2026 the people who already reached VP pre 2008 phones are ringing off hook. But we are now old. You can’t not promote careers and do trading for 16 years.

My company is almost a Boomer Gen Z set up. Hire Boomer high pay to get it up and running with Gen Z being mentored and trained.

How did milenials and Gen X get missed on corporate ladder?

By time last of boomers retire in 2030 Gen Z will be new bosses. [/quote]

The last of the boomers will not be retired by 2030. Not by a long shot.

I'm at the tail end of the baby boom (1962 DOB) and have always identified more with Gen X. Barring a health condition, however, I have no intention of retiring in 4 years. DH just turned 70 and is still going strong in corporate world.[/quote]

Why, though? Did you not save? Who would WANT to be working at 70? [/quote]

70 is the new 50. But seriously, in my case, and many others, we were first generations to go to college, start careers, marry women who did same and had kids a bit later. In turn our kids are doing same. Nearly all the people at work 57 to 64 are in that stage kids have moved out or away at college. But kids are single or maybe if engaged or newly married no kids yet. There are no grandkids to visit or help out kids first homes. They are not there yet.

Plus if you go to office two days a week in person, get five weeks vacation and have ten holidays. You are only going to office around 100 days a year. Pretty sure with 265 days a year being home or on vacation you cant keep working longer.

It is no longer in person 5 days a week ten hours a day in traffic which will crush your soul so you retire as soon as you can. Half of work is remote today at beach, off on Friday. so getting a four day weekend without even using a vacation day    [/quote]

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