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I work at an 800 year old institution. I have been here for 20 years. My wife works here too. Salary isn't great in global terms, but puts us within the top 20
by fcatalan 4y ago
I work at an 800 year old institution. I have been here for 20 years. My wife works here too.
Salary isn't great in global terms, but puts us within the top 20% national household incomes. Enough no not really care about money.
We work 35 hours per week, pretty flexible schedule, about half from home and have more vacation days than we know what to do with.
The work is a bit monotonous and the office politics terrible, to the point of giving us depressing "golden cage" feelings sometimes, but when we take a peek outside, it doesn't look better than what we have. So we'll probably stay for the next 20 years.
- justahuman74 4y ago> 800 year old institution is this a university?
- sdenton4 4y agoThe knights templar, perhaps?
- smsm42 4y agoThose are 903 years old already.
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoThey don't exist anymore. I was thinking of the Order of Malta but they are a bit older.
- bradwood 4y ago> They don't exist anymore. IYKYK...
- CTDOCodebases 4y agoWell not in an official capacity. No one's getting payslips with "Knights Templar" on them.
- ipaddr 4y agoPerhaps a business part of the oldest profession
- sgt 4y agoPlot twist, the OP is >800 years old.
- geebee 4y agoand works from inside a whale.
- stackbutterflow 4y agoIf OP is 4'2" tall and likes to eat frogs I might have a guess on where he works.
- vladd 4y agoStatistically, companies surviving that long are related to the food and/or accommodation industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
- ShredKazoo 4y agoI suppose those are the industries that have been relatively immune to disruption?
- highwaylights 4y agoMy guess was London-based bank.
- caporaltito 4y agoA tech german brewery.
- fergie 4y ago> 800 year old institution > The work is a bit monotonous and the office politics terrible > but when we take a peek outside, it doesn't look better than what we have. So we'll probably stay for the next 20 years. Hello fellow university employee! :)
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