The 30 Year Paycheck: Destruction and Redemption in Corporate America

Employees bemoan uncaring managers, merciless corporations and dead-end jobs while CEO’s wonder what happened to employee engagement. Our national obsession with how bad life is in corporate America is only the beginning of the story. Behind the backdrop of a fictional career with a large corporation, The 30 Year Paycheck delves into what makes corporate America so demeaning and why employees put up with it. Indoctrinated into a career filled with fear and command-and-control structures, the narrator faces a huge personal toll while trying to remain employed, raise a family and save for an ever distant retirement. However, by better understanding himself and his own goals and gifts, he strives to avoid being trapped by the 30 year paycheck. Along the way, there are also many lessons to be learned for corporations that wish to help employees, mid-level managers and executives find a path for the needed growth.