The company I work for is fairly large. Two-hundred twenty thousand large. There are many, MANY different departments one could work, if one could, and wanted to.

The company has a decent HR department and one of the features it offers is an internal job board. This great feature publishes all the current openings. Adding filters allows one to, obviously, restrict what criteria they want in their next job, be it the department, job level, or location. After finding a job, sometimes before it is published to the public, one can apply right on the spot.

I took advantage of this tool a few times. While, for me, it didn’t turn into a new opportunity, it turns out that that was for the better anyway because I wound up enjoying where I worked, the work I did (for the most part…), the people I worked with, and my manager.

When one is in the peak of their career, this tool is FANTASTIC for potential opportunities and advancement. When one is at the dust of their career, this is just one more thing that can just, shall we say, be ignored.

There are too-numerous-to-mention reasons why someone might quit or “be motivated to retire”. One way to get around this, or, “prolong the inevitable”, is to take a new job in a department in order to perhaps spend six months or a year learning said new job in order to cause a distraction before retirement arrives.

While I did NOT do something like this, not having to look at the internal job boards, or even worrying if there was “anything better out there”, is something I won’t miss.