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But if/when I change next time I want to fill in multiple choices.
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My last paid position was in Over The Road trucking with serious pressure to run outlaw, tired, and for not much money. Finding the Old - Black - Obese disease an impediment to returning to a paid IT developer/support occupation.
Old = ~50 years old
Black = Race, can be any ethnic minority
Obese= Body Mass Index well over 30
Free your mind and the rest will follow,
Don't be colorblind, don't be so shallow!
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This so-called "survey is missing a vital option:-
The person who has ALWAYS been their own employer!
(And therefore the question makes zero sense)
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Excellent point - there are many people who run their own micro-software vendor shops.
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........
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Promoted to a job which was outside my skills (too much pointless politics), so moved sideways to a job of my design and interest.
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For me, I would've checked everything except for getting fired.
I would also add the commute since the company moved to some crappy office building in the middle of nowhere because they were too cheap to rent a real building.
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I worked for a government contractor, and due to my not having a degree, they refused to make me a senior developer. This was due to them not being able to charge the government extra for my services.
Another downer was I was working on the same project for 10 years, that never made it to the field to be used. It got kind of old working on an application no one used, but the government kept throwing money at to add new features.
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After 33 years in the consulting business and having lived through the mainframe era, the mini-era, the PC revolution, the Chip wars, the Unix civil war, the Introduction of the Internet, the rise of the various Unixs, the stagnation of Microsoft...I had enough.
Every 18 months I had to re-learn (mostly) everything. I decided that I was not going to do the latest cycle and so on a monday in September I wrote my resignation letter and left on Friday.
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Likewise. Having tried retirement once before and getting talked into returning to work, I decided to finish the job (accidental pun) and retired again.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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only 16% to money strange 
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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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