I guess we really have no needs of aircraft or submarines, tanks and bombs since we are perfectly at peace and will remain so.
I fail to see why it’s someone else’s responsibility to retire so you or anyone else can have their job.
Of course you do: You are in your mid-fifties, correct?
First, are you suggesting that without you there will be no aircraft, etc? If so people not retiring may not be the reason you’re not moving up in the company.
Second, no, I am not in my mid-fifties, I just turned fifty. But, I think it would be frankly arrogant and selfish to imagine that anyone needs to retire so that I can have a shot. If someone can do their job well, and they have experience which makes them valuable employees, who are you to say they should retire just to give someone else a chance? If a field is saturated with workers, then that’s unfortunate, but some of those people will need to go into another line of work. I had that same experience. I had a degree in exercise physiology, and I had worked in the field. But it was difficult to find jobs because it became such a hot degree to get. So, instead of complaining I changed careers. Kind of scarey at age 42, but I don’t recall any guarantee anywhere that said I could have the career and/or job that I desired.
susie