The job is changing. Has yours?

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I did a modern engineering apprenticeship with a well known company 8 years ago as a 'Mechanical Maintenance Engineer' (fitter) It was a job for life with great blokes that have spent their whole lives there. I always had the intention of being there for a long long time but in the few short years I have been there things have been changing massively.

Not all for the worse though mind. I'm paying more tax now than I used to take home a few years ago, I do still really enjoy the job and I've made some really good friends. I've been away for 3 and a half weeks and after meeting with a few mates last night it has emerged that they're making some changes in the company. They're trying to really screw us over with shift work and implement embedded holiday (I'm not even sure what that really is) I guess I'll find out officially on Monday upon my return.

I suppose it's a little saddening, I don't want to feel this way about a company I really do feel proud to work for but I guess the world is a big place and if it really came to it I could probably find work easily enough elsewhere-maybe overseas.

I'm 25 and this has been my only real job. I guess it could and I do hope it'll all blow over and people are blowing it all out of proportion. The Union are involved I believe so lets hope they earn their keep...

Anybody had any similar experiences? I guess this happens all of the time, people feel like they're perhaps being pushed out? I'm sure it works out fine :)
 
Yes my inductsry has changed massively over the last 10 to 20 years. I would suggest you see how the changes go. You may like them or you may not. If you don't then look for something else. But give it a try, Change is sometimes good.
 
Yeah you're right. I'm certainly not looking elsewhere and panicking about the next paycheck or anything. I'm fairly sure thing will be sorted out. You obviously just don't know though :/
 
My field has changed hugely in the last ten years. The advent of the internet and its insatiable appetite for written content has created a vast amateur workforce that is prepared to work for peanuts (or nothing at all). This has had consequences for those writers already established, but it is all evolution in my view and one must move with the times or risk being marginalised. Services like direct publishing and print on demand have given writers a power we could only dream of in times gone by.
 
We work 6 months on shifts (days and afters and on call through the night) then a 6 month maintenance period where invariably people take 1 or 2 weeks off around now then have August off. It sounds like they want to tell you you can have 1 week in August off but IDK
 
I shall (hopefully) be a doctor in a couple of years. Who knows what state the NHS will be in then. The job role is changing around me as we speak.
 
I very much doubt you started on the path for a "job for life" eight years ago. If you did them I'm sorry to say that you massively misjudged the situation.
 
When you're living in an age when careers are available today that didn't exist 10 years ago and other jobs/careers are being rapidly replaced it is optimistic as far as most jobs are concerned to assume you've got a 'job for life'.
 
I guess so but what I do isn't cutting edge (the fundamentals of it anyway) Stuff is always gonna break/wear out so the need the people to fix the plant is always going to exist. I guess the 'Job for life' element for the old boys was the decent pay. They often referred to it as the golden handcuffs but I suppose they're trying to cut costs and bring it inline with any other job...
 
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