I met with a high level and well connected employee recently to try get some answers about my ultimate potential. This person works with D&S for my job family in succession planning. I was very honest about how I don’t see a future with ExxonMobil. The person tried hard to basically convince me that the pension is worth sticking it out for since I have put in two decades with the company already and am in my forties. The person then went on to describe how in the not too distant future there won’t be any employees at EMHC left other than those who are still needed to mentor the BTC. The person made statements like you are old enough and close enough to retirement that you can make it. My takeaway was the future for old people is to train India to take all the jobs. The future for young people is to be fired. I suggest young people wise up and leave before you are fired and that old people decide if this is the future you want to be a part of. I do not.
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"If you have a job, even a job you don't like in 2026 you are blessed.
The 2026 job market is wild - from AI to ghosting it's brutal.
Having a job isn't something you should take for granted."
You need to know your market value. Test the market then run the numbers. There is no reason for you or the company to place a value on loyalty, employment is simply a transaction. So, do the math and pick the option with highest value or utility (non quantitative factors) with best risk to reward criteria.
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Why leave voluntarily? Ride them out like they’re riding us out—if they want to get rid of you, they can give you severance or fire you so you can file for unemployment. But don’t leave money on the table.. they taught us better than that.