Why do work where you do?

Why do you like to work at your current place of employment? Mission/Goals, pay, location? What makes you want to go to work everyday?

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xenodamus

Work/family balance is a big motivator for me right now (2 kids at home: 1 and 3). I work on a team where everyone has kids at home (management included), in an organization where our vacation/sick/personal time is all allocated in one big bucket (BTO: Benefit Time Off).

All of that translates into a large amount of flexibility. It's no big deal for me to call in because I've got a sick kid....or to ask off half a day to do something family related.

Couple that with above average pay for the area, and it makes it hard to find the motivation to leave.

Iristheangel

Work/life balance, great pay, ability to always be learning new things, and exposure to many different architectures and topologies.

gorebrush

I love my job. Plenty of variety, flexible, I love working shifts. Pay is excellent for my area, plenty of time to study, travelling to work takes 7 minutes. I'm finding it hard to justify leaving at the moment. I'll probably move internally, eventually. For now I'm happy where I am.

da_vato

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Polynomial

Ridiculously awesome top tech company where I'm pretty convinced I'll pull off a management transition with the connections I'm building.

Priston

Currently there are much more dislikes about where I work, but since your only asking about the likes. I'd have to say I like the learning opportunities.

Tom Servo

I'm working where I work because the money (realistically 15-20k more than I can find elsewhere) and because I wanted to have some experience in the financial industry. The fact I almost never travel is quite nice too. That said, if I could put my two weeks in tomorrow I would.

SteveO86

For me I'd have to say the challenge. Work/Life balance was good for a while however it's gone slightly out the [third story] window lately.

My recent (and still upcoming) data center projects was/has been an awesome experience. Now I got some more VoIP projects ramping up I'll be busy again. Granted some of these VoIP are going to lead to some WLAN re-designs.. (just a strong hunch there)

Once I can add Voice to my skill set I imagine I'll be much better off.

cyberguypr

Very happy where I'm at right now.
- Good pay
- As others said, flexibility (work from home, PTO, sick, personal, community service, etc.)
- Tons of snacks from candy to very healthy things
- Paid training/conferences
- Lots of cool enterprise level toys
- Great team to bounce ideas off
- Upward mobility

I'm, positive I can get a nice bump if I move on but sometimes money is not everything.

NinjaBoy

For me, I actually like where I work

The majority of the people are nice, the organisation that I work for invests heavily in IT, training is there (however we have to work within budget), there's a good work/life balance. Ok, my wage for my position is lower than in different sectors. But it's a good trade off, at least for now

joemysterio

Exposure to technologies i'm unfamiliar with and overall experience for a newbie in the field, plus a coworker makes my day enjoyable where I'm at. I'll probably jump ship within the next year though to something much closer, hopefully.

FloOz

Free breakfast/lunch and snacks

jibbajabba

Pays the bills

I am not even bitter ... much ...

Success101

Simply a paycheck. That's it. Pretty much everything else sucks here. No co-worker interaction, monitored breaks, downtime, lunch, etc. Also, a boss who has no backbone nor any idea of how to use a computer.

markulous

I get to learn a lot and get some good experience. There's also a lot of room to move up. I'm very happy with what I'm doing at the moment.

the_Grinch

1. Pay was a big boost from what I was making
2. Pension
3. Industry is completely new in the US so I'm on the forefront
4. Car pool
5. Tons of time off
6. Get to learn about a lot of different topics
7. Connections and skills I'm gaining are priceless

goldenlight

Bills are the biggest motivator for me Free cable/phone/internet. I'm 3 miles away from work so don't care for crappy salary.

Not where I want to be but Im sure If I keep banging on doors eventually I'll move on. love learning new things. hate getting into a pattern of doing the same thing each day...

Trifidw

Variety
Great team
The challenges are very much enjoyable
It's local
The pay is competitive and has reflected the increased responsibilities I've had as I've progressed

Tom Servo wrote: »

That said, if I could put my two weeks in tomorrow I would.

I think it is mad that you can give just 2 weeks notice of leaving... Here a basic job you'd need to give 1 month and I have to give 3 months! My Dads notice period is 6 months!

Anonymouse

- Good pay/benefits for a nonprofit. We accrue lots of PTO, more than any job I've ever been at. I've gotten 3 pay bumps in 1.5 year of employment.
- Short commute, I get to commute via bicycle every other day.

broli720

- Training opportunities are there
- Business trips to some pretty cool places to perform risk assessments
- Benefits are top notch and the pay is above industry average.
- Only work 4 days a week

Being in a corporate environment means change is kind of slow. You don't really get that accelerated growth. Pay wise I'd say I can make quite a lot more if I left, but I like the job and environment. I've gone up 8% on average every year since I've been here and there are plenty of opportunities for me to do some maneuvering to get into risk management. I got my first internship and job here; as long as I continue to climb the ladder, I'll be here for a while.

Danielh22185

- Knowledge and skill improment in my field
- Opportunities for rapid career growth
- Good pay for my experience level
- Work / Life balance (newborn at home)

shauncarter1

Great question!

- Good pay for non-profit 80k
- Great benefits - used to be free...thanks Chris Christie
- Stability - layoffs do not exist
- Great people - Email is down for a couple of hours...hey it's not the end of the world
- Great pension - 25 years and 55% of your base bay (11 more years for me puts me on pace for retirement before 50 if I want)
- Commute - 10 minute drive down back roads of NJ (moved closer)
- Diverse experience - Small department so I can do everything from security policies and long term planning to deploying a new Email Archiver
- Time Off - 4 weeks, 4 personal days, 96 sick days, 4 day work week in the summer, A week for Christmas, and every major holiday
- Top leadership support - Eagerly supported my goal to obtain my doctorate with time off for residencies and paying for 60%

eLs

Hourly Shift IT work- if I'm working more I'm getting paid more -_-
I guess the benefits...
MSP so maybe a bit more reliable than Internal IT...

Overnight shift benefits-
Usually lots of down time for studying and uhm stuff...
15-20 minute Joy Ride to work no traffic going or coming from home.
No micromanaging us due to everyone sleeping usually.

RHEL

I get paid a boat load of money for the area, am constantly learning, live 5 minutes away, and have benefits that rival Google. Yep, not leaving anytime soon.

coreyb80

-Solid pay, especially since they went from salary to allow overtime right before I was hired on full time
-Flexible work schedule
-The ability to work from home
-The benefits are pretty solid for me and my family
-Great people to work
-Most of all I'm learning alot as this is my first professional IT gig

paul78

It's great to see there are so many folks that like where they work. And to read about reasons for staying.

Me personally - I am only in it for the paycheck. I only stay because it's so darn difficult to find another job at the same compensation level.