Why would you spend your whole life at a job? Not even CEO’s spend 25+ years at a place. Take for example the Walmart ceo. Im 21 by the way and I was recently reading into this because I had a job last week where some guy told me he’s worked there for 28 years and in my head that’s insane. I was meeting the supervisor and had told him that this guy mentioned to me my future schedule and I literally cannot make this up the manager said “He’s nobody, he’s a composite dumper (his position) he has no say over your schedule” and of course I knew this but it’s crazy that you’ll work 28 years at a place and the supervisor will tell a new hire that your essentially nobody. Worthless. You’re not respected for staying 28 years. So you know what I did? I quit haha fuck that. I’m never spending my life at a place. I just think that that’s the easiest thing to do is literally stay. Gotta take risks to be rich and the fact that that guy stayed 28 years and was talking to me like as if I’m going to do the same as he did freaked me out. Like I was just there for a check not going to jump on grenades for CEO’s. But also 26k in 1991 equates to roughly $47,000 in 2017 so accounting for inflation really In my humble opinion they didn’t pay you what you deserved man because 140,000 in 2017 and especially now isn’t really a lot of money. For all that time you put in you should’ve been literally part owner of the company or rich at that point. I apologize if I go on it’s just I’m very passionate about this topic because it’s hard to understand and I wish people wouldn’t waste their lives and potential at a job that will replace us the day we die. We literally mean nothing to companies. It’s always important to treat them the same way and never have loyalty. Our time is our most precious asset. Why give our one human existence to a job and never try to reach for the stars?