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No, I'm pretty aware of how bad my working conditions are relative to, say, some of my friends who work at Apple or Facebook. Things regularly happen in my wor

No, I'm pretty aware of how bad my working conditions are relative to, say, some of my friends who work at Apple or Facebook. Things regularly happen in my world that would top anything the OP has posted about. I hate to engage in one-upmanship, but this post just seemed very silly to me.

mooreds 11y ago
> I'm pretty aware of how bad my working conditions are relative to, say, some of my friends who work at Apple or Facebook. May I ask why you stay in your current working conditions then? Are you doing work you consider to be really important? Challenging? Lucrative? Do you see the light at the end of the tunnel? Are you able to make suggestions to improve the conditions for yourself and others? Are you locked in because of external concerns (location, family needs, etc)? No job is perfect (they call it "work" for a reason) but I am curious why you'd stay at a job that is so tough.
- engi_nerd 11y ago
  I should note that only one of the stories I told is from my current job (being cursed at by crew chiefs). The others are from my last job, which I left in 2014. I'm beginning to ask myself the same questions. Partly I am locked in due to family concerns. My wife and I have moved 3 times in 4 years of marriage and we're both tired of moving (Each of us also moved a couple of times in the two years immediately before becoming a couple, so we are very tired of moving). We've just had a baby so stability is paramount. Therefore I don't want to leave this general area. But, this is a very large testing/research base, so there is other employment available. The work I am doing is important, to me, but not particularly challenging. It is very lucrative. And my suggestions are taken seriously. I pretty much determine what I do on a day to day basis. So it's not as bad as it could be. I do have agency here. But I'm also a little bored.
  - mooreds 11y ago
    Thanks for the illumination. I get desiring stability. Good luck to ya!

mooreds 11y ago

> I'm pretty aware of how bad my working conditions are relative to, say, some of my friends who work at Apple or Facebook. May I ask why you stay in your current working conditions then? Are you doing work you consider to be really important? Challenging? Lucrative? Do you see the light at the end of the tunnel? Are you able to make suggestions to improve the conditions for yourself and others? Are you locked in because of external concerns (location, family needs, etc)? No job is perfect (they call it "work" for a reason) but I am curious why you'd stay at a job that is so tough.

engi_nerd 11y ago
I should note that only one of the stories I told is from my current job (being cursed at by crew chiefs). The others are from my last job, which I left in 2014. I'm beginning to ask myself the same questions. Partly I am locked in due to family concerns. My wife and I have moved 3 times in 4 years of marriage and we're both tired of moving (Each of us also moved a couple of times in the two years immediately before becoming a couple, so we are very tired of moving). We've just had a baby so stability is paramount. Therefore I don't want to leave this general area. But, this is a very large testing/research base, so there is other employment available. The work I am doing is important, to me, but not particularly challenging. It is very lucrative. And my suggestions are taken seriously. I pretty much determine what I do on a day to day basis. So it's not as bad as it could be. I do have agency here. But I'm also a little bored.
- mooreds 11y ago
  Thanks for the illumination. I get desiring stability. Good luck to ya!