I used to work for a “poorer” state a while back and made a wage lower than most people here could possibly imagine. The stereotypes about good benefits were al

I used to work for a “poorer” state a while back and made a wage lower than most people here could possibly imagine. The stereotypes about good benefits were also rather overrated. Pay bands were bureaucratic and raises (even minor CoL ones) were rare. And ofc, there was literal politics invovled. Outside that, the job itself wasn’t particularly worse than an average corporate gig.