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It’s not naive. I’ve found a place where I genuinely like and care for my coworkers. From personal experience, it is definitely worth the effort of looking for

• ThePadawan 5y ago
  Thank you so much. I have been on the job hunt since May 2020 and have only come up against obstacles so far. It has really cheered me up to hear those words!
  • prox 5y ago
    I too found such a company. They are a bit rarer. Lots of companies just don’t know how to manage people. You think with the thousands of management trainings that it would be so, but alas. A good company makes you happy, isn’t a perpetual stress fest and makes good money as well.
• forty 5y ago
  It's probably related to the fact that parent "has gone through a number of different workplaces in the last 6 years". I have been working at the same place for the last 9 years, it's much easier to build a "family" that way. Also the company was tiny when I joined, which helped. Of course it does come with some downsides, like the fact that it's tougher when someone leaves. That's life I guess :)
  • ThePadawan 5y ago
    (Maybe I should have clarified that I was employed at a contractor for a while - so I jumped to a new "workplace" for every ~3-month project. I know that technically, that might not be considered a change of workplace, but for me, it meant a complete change in the colleagues I worked with on a daily basis.)
    • forty 5y ago
      I agree with you, it definitely counts as a change for me too. I don't think contracting is ideal to find a "family" like atmosphere because such places are probably reluctant to use contractors (there are other benefits of contracting of course).