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Why?
Money isn't that important really; or at least not when you reach a "certain level" which varies from person to person. Provided you have "enough to be comfortable" 5% more, 10% more, even 25% more isn't going to make a huge difference.
Would you move to a job you knew would be boring, with colleagues you dislike, for 20% more than you get at your current job which you enjoy, with good mates? What if it was going to take you an extra hour each way to get there? Still worth it?
Money isn't everything.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Exactly. I get paid less than I could get elsewhere (especially in the city), but my quality of life benefits far outweigh the additional cash.
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you are right,
It is the law of marginal diminishing return
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OriginalGriff wrote: Money isn't everything.
You wouldn't last five minutes in a bank with that attitude!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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This is true. I left my first job to take a job with higher pay. That job had terrible management and was a pretty horrible 5.5 years. I left that job for one that paid about 40% less but only hung there for a year. There's a point where money doesn't matter and then there's a point where you're living below the poverty level even with a degree and 10 years experience  Left that job for the one I'm at now, which pays more than the horrible one I'd left before.
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..judging by the % citing management as the problem.
Apologies for not making this a multi-choice poll. I didn't see that option in the "suggest a poll" page.
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Although I liked my job and the variety of opportunity there, I was given the opportunity to work 100% of the time on a single vendor platform. This is a platform I had used for the last 20 years in other positions, that those positions were always vendor platform +.
No regrets with the new position.
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I was working on a Defense Department contract at the local military base here in Texas. The contract was complete and there was no follow-up contract because, post-9/11, the money was sucked into Homeland (IN)Security and those contracts went to California, Maryland and Rust Belt locations.
I got another job, but it does not pay as well.
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
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Multiple choice... anyone?
Anything that could possibly go wrong in some moment, will definitely go wrong in the worst possible moment...
In the worst way that could be possible! –Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law (paraphrased).
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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Definitely. I wanted to mark ALL the options except the last two (the ones that say fired). All other options apply.
Sore wa ore no nindo da!
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Yes please. I chucked in my last position for at least two, more likely three of the choices.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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... can I vote for what'd be my excuse if I leave my current employer in the next year or so?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My first day on the current job was May 19th 1997 (although technically we changed companies in September of 1998 I am on the same research team and I still have the same boss as I did on my first day).
The job before that was a short contract just out of the university.
John
modified 19-May-14 12:56pm.
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John M. Drescher wrote: 17th anniversary
BTW, Congratulations...! 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Thanks. It's been a lot of hard work and long hours but I got lucky finding my position.
John
modified 19-May-14 15:50pm.
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I still have the same job, just moved locations at my request.
Primary reason, stagnation and ground hog day setting in.
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... I was pushed!
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As discussed in the Lounge last week[^], I left because of events that happened after a football match.
The reasons I wanted to leave (or were happy to leave) were many, I was disillusioned with the management after various changes to them, I was made promises about my own career progression that were not happening and I could not see myself progressing any further within the company, but most of all because I had stopped having fun, I was miserable and being miserable is not good for you.
History repeats.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The last company I worked for was bought out three times. The last company to buy us out liquidated the assets and the CEO of that company held a million dollar toga party for his wife's birthday. True story[^]
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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S Houghtelin wrote: CEO of that company held a million dollar toga party for his wife's birthday.
I mean, if you're gonna go, may as well go out with a bang. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I mean, if you're gonna go, may as well go out with a bang
 True, but I think the bang hasn't stopped, rather, ahem, just a well deserved change in venue...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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is he out of jail now?
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Still working with my first employer (not counting the paper round I had when I was still at school)
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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They didn't mantain what they promised and I was doing boring jobs under my qualification. My motivation went down to minimum levels and then I changed job.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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