Worked for about 7 years at a smaller (50-100 people) satellite office of a large corporation that mostly ignored us. + Small enough IT department so I got to

Worked for about 7 years at a smaller (50-100 people) satellite office of a large corporation that mostly ignored us. + Small enough IT department so I got to wear many hats and learn a lot. + I wasn't the _only_ IT person, so there were others I could bounce ideas off of. + Boss was supportive when I wanted to go from sysadmin to developer. - Wasn't enough development work available at the office to do full time. - Corporate remembered us and started to order layoffs. Eventually every other member of my team was gone. The economy went into the trash right as I decided it was time to leave, so I stayed a few years longer than I wanted to. More money wouldn't have kept me there any longer.