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Interesting experience.

Ronald Zeeman

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Must be a real shortage of qualified specialists.in my area of expertise. getting message on my linkin and message on cell phone trying to fill position.
unfortunately, I'm retired, financially not in need, enjoying life. last time something similar happened was 25 years ago, when their was a shortage of quality engineers.
I just passed the phone to coworkers, many found employment, many making more than I was. One final job change, with pension, interesting process challenges and the 21-year run to retirement. Now not looking to enrich others not at a 40-hour week plus overtime. the position I retired from was 32-hour week no required overtime or shift work.
Plus had stroke 10 days prior to official retirement date.
 
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You are wise to pass it up. If you are relaxed and content, you likely can't do better then that.
 
You are wise to pass it up. If you are relaxed and content, you likely can't do better then that.
I did my linkin plainly says retired, we have very serious skilled trade labour shortage and not too many have my skill set. what bothers me is I do not give out my phone number and they sent the message to my phone. I have a one-of-a-kind skill. Would take years to find anyone else. thats why 25 years ago I found others to take the phone I was getting continuous phone calls from headhunters. My buddies really appreciated my getting them to upgrade thier education in quality engineering most notably the recent immigrants. Must have gotten 10 or more positions double or triple what they were making. Now it is the company personally contacting me. Real estate now comes to my door bothering us to sell our house, The pressure is on the rent a room to students, We own properties. is their going to be pressure to have homes built on it. when it rains it pours.
 
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I've been retired from law practice for a number of years but still get emails, phone calls, letters and text messages from headhunters, people looking for an attorney, and people offering their expertise as expert witnesses. Yet, my profile with the state bar association clearly shows my status as retired.

Such is life . . .
 
I own a cell phone have never made a phone call on it use it for other features. do not answer it unless it is family
do not give out my number. Either way I deleted message. I gave a few members here advice on gaining employment years ago not sure if they took it or whether it worked.
 
I own a cell phone have never made a phone call on it use it for other features. do not answer it unless it is family
do not give out my number. Either way I deleted message.

I have no idea how people get my cell phone number either, but I periodically scroll through the received calls and block numbers that I know are spam or telemarketers. I never answer those calls because the computer programs they employ to randomly generate phone numbers increases the number of calls to your phone if you answer it. If you answer, then they know it is a viable number and they will continue to call.
 
I'm surprised 25 years later there is still such a high demand for quality engineers matched with a specialty.
quality engineering only requires a certificate that can be obtained in months if you combine it with a technical
qualification previously obtained. The message was directly from the company seeking me personally. If they had phoned, I would not have answered.
 
When I started my career years ago first job a supervisor told Ron look around what is one thing in common with virtually all products, and that was they need to be painted. The position was as a lab technician painting aluminum siding, I devoted my career.to this, Every position from then on was related to these appliances, vehicles various substrates, including plastic. Different application methods. now my generation is retiring, and specific skills no longer exist. I guess some companies are starting to panic. found out yesterday number one job to fill here among immigrants for fast tracking is truck drivers.
 
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I retired in 2016. Since then I get solicitations from LinkedIn and some businesses direct wanting me to apply for employment. I just delete the emails. Never reply. I never have my phone on, so they can't call me even if they somehow figured how to get my number.
 
I retired in 2016. Since then I get solicitations from LinkedIn and some businesses direct wanting me to apply for employment. I just delete the emails. Never reply. I never have my phone on, so they can't call me even if they somehow figured how to get my number.
I ignore my house phone let them leave a message, which i also ignore if not family or friends.
 
Still wondering atypical people over the years have been checking out my linkedin profile, I just like puzzles.
 
Just got notice 4 people looked at my Linkedin profile one person a research fellow, what are they researching, I am retired. During covid some one from the Max Planck institute looked up my linkedin profile I guess they found my statistical data useful my conclusions interesting. A year later The lead researcher of the lab doing research on covid and neanderthal DNA won the Nobel prize for medicine.
 
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Just looked up research fellow interesting title. something is up. Maybe they like my biological data and the connections I'm Seeing. My resistance to covid could be intriguing. Not the kind of data available any where else.
 
Getting employment agencies looking at my linkedin profile even through it clearly stats retired. I exercise my special skills on here and another forum or helping relatives on my DNA site. No interest In enriching others, just family and friends. Imagine my brother has the same attitude.
 
A few years ago I went to a bar with wife to watch my cousin playing. Not to busy same town he had his hair styling business in Bar he hung out in after work, they begged him to play there. We sat down lady sat next to me asked who is this band, what are they like. I turned stated the drummer is my cousin, said have you ever seen Phil Collins play. she said yes in New York at a concert So I just said dead pan You are in a non descript bar, in a small town,
My cousin plays covers of Led Zeppelin, plays like John Bonhan, while concurrently singing like Robert Plants.
After set concluded all I head was her yell out that was incredible, followed behind us by another lady yell and that's my hairdresser.
 
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