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[Deleted member 20415]

I'm nearly 28, worked for 3 companies in my time since college and I've always had a work experience of the company I'm working for being in its death throes or massively declining in revenue.

Cue:
- Stress
- Bullshit from higher ups
- Constant Fear of "Who's Next?"

I'm certainly on my way out of this place... I don't want to be around when it all goes belly up. I'd rather leave premature, miss some resume builders than be sitting at home working on my resume.

I just want to be able to work for a company that's actually succeeding....

For the record, I've worked in newspapers (ha!), marketing research and online publishing.

Has anyone ever had this type of streak? Just constant company deaths under their belt, fleeing from one disaster to the next?

 

[2DMention]

Maybe you're the cause...

J/K

Just bad luck, I guess.. But then again, the economy and the publishing industries aren't doing very well, are they?

 

[ElectricBlue187]

For the record, I've worked in newspapers (ha!), marketing research and online publishing.

Maybe it's your dying profession that needs a change?

 

[Ferrio]

Get a government job.

 

[dojokun]

I'm nearly 28, worked for 3 companies in my time since college and I've always had a work experience of the company I'm working for being in its death throes or massively declining in revenue.

Cue:
- Stress
- Bullshit from higher ups
- Constant Fear of "Who's Next?"

I'm certainly on my way out of this place... I don't want to be around when it all goes belly up. I'd rather leave premature, miss some resume builders than be sitting at home working on my resume.

I just want to be able to work for a company that's actually succeeding....

For the record, I've worked in newspapers (ha!), marketing research and online publishing.

Has anyone ever had this type of streak? Just constant company deaths under their belt, fleeing from one disaster to the next?

Quit hacking into your company's Accounting Department and stealing money Office Space style.

 

[Deleted member 20415]

Maybe it's your dying profession that needs a change?

Newspaper writing, yes; online publishing, no way.

This last company is just a broken product, has terrible leadership (both our CEO and the President got tossed two months ago by the parent company - but things are still terrible) and a resistance to change.

All indicators are pointing to advertisers putting more and more money into online... yet we're still losing loads of money because of poor vision and a lack of understanding of our audience.

 

[speedpop]

Get a government job.

Bingo.

 

[DJ Crimson]

What exactly do you do?

 

[Deleted member 20415]

What exactly do you do?

Consumer research: trends and tracking, product development, random other things.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

Newspaper writing, yes; online publishing, no way.

This last company is just a broken product, has terrible leadership (both our CEO and the President got tossed two months ago by the parent company - but things are still terrible) and a resistance to change.

All indicators are pointing to advertisers putting more and more money into online... yet we're still losing loads of money because of poor vision and a lack of understanding of our audience.

Google is swallowing the ad revenue industry whole.

 

[lunarworks]

I'm nearly 28, worked for 3 companies in my time since college and I've always had a work experience of the company I'm working for being in its death throes or massively declining in revenue.

I know the feeling very well.

I've never known such thing as a "secure job".

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Work for the Government.

Edit: beaten.

 

[TheClimaxan]

I definitely feel your pain OP. When I was in college I worked for my local paper (3rd largest in the state at the time). I was hoping to slide into a job there but once I graduated the place was well beyond sinking ship mode. I ended up landing a job at an advertising agency. It's where I am now but all signs are pointing to sinking ship here also (i.e losing big accounts, layoffs, people quitting, low morale). I'm going to hang on here and hope things get better as the climate can change at the drop of a hat in the ad industry. At the very least I'll still get that coveted "experience" I'll need for my next stop (i'm only 24).

If all else fails, everybody here is pretty much spot on. Government work.

 

[MelloBoy]

well, atleast it sounds like you're working for a semi-extended period of time...

I was hired at my last job and started on a Tuesday or Wednesday...the Monday following, we were acquired by another company and got a layoff notice (albeit a 2mo. notice) the same day...