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☆ 68-year-old engineer who's spent 50 years at one company regrets this mid-career mistake: 'It never, ever works out well'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Kip Turner, 68, has spent his entire 50-year career with AT&T working as an engineer. And despite his long tenure, he tells CNBC Make It he has often been one of the youngest people on his team. Turner first joined the company as a station installer in 1973 when he was 18 years old. "Be very confident when you challenge somebody, especially somebody that's 20 to 30 years older than you that's been doing the job for so long. "I made the mistake of embarrassing people in the past and it never, ever works out well."

Persons: Kip Turner, Turner, I've, I'm, that's Organizations: CNBC Locations: Faulkner County , Arkansas, Central Arkansas

☆ 68-year-old engineer spent 50 years at one company and 'always' told his bosses to 'leave me alone': 'Let me learn the job'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Kip Turner, 68, joined AT&T shortly after high school and has been with the company his entire 50-year career. He's also taken on plenty of younger mentees along the way and thinks that, despite today's culture of job-hopping, even today's young grads could build their own 50-year career. 'I have always told my supervisors to leave me alone'Turner says he's never been "especially aggressive" about trying to get promoted. Courtesy of AT&TEven so, Turner applied to plenty of promotions and has been disappointed to not get them. Turner applied and secured the role.

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☆ 68-year-old has spent 50 years at the same company as an engineer, even without a college degree—this is his one regret
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Kip Turner joined AT&T when he was 18 years old without a bachelors degree and learned everything for his engineering career on-the-job. In the summer of 1973, Turner drove to Little Rock for an interview and joined AT&T as a station installer. Turner joined AT&T without a bachelor's degree and has learned everything on the job. Kip Turner, 68, joined AT&T shortly after high school and has been with the company his entire 50-year career. "I would have loved to have completed an engineering degree," he says.

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☆ He's been at the same company for 50 years. Here's why he stayed so long and what he tells workers who want to jump from job to job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Look a little closer and you see how long he's been with the telecom giant: 50 years and two months. Turner, who goes by Kip, has far outlasted most of us in how long he's stayed with the same company. Government figures from 2022 show that the median time US workers have been with their current employer is 4.1 years. And I think people may be afraid to do that — that they think you're unhappy. For example, he's traveled around the country to complete technical training, which has helped him keep pace with the technology.

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