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Because a fair number of people have worked for good companies, have been treated well and do see reward for hard work. Others have worked for companies that just plain suck. Personal perspective plays out a lot in these discussions, and many assume that their experience can be generically applied.
There is truth to this but unfortunately my experience is that "good companies" have become increasingly rare. My last job was at a corp that was apallingly bad and I hated it. It took me 3 years and 2 dozen interviews to find a good company.
I think that's a bit high. There is a difference in not enjoying your job and hating it. If people truly "hated" their job they would quit.
The quitting process can take a lot of time, because it is usually good to have another job lined up. Finding the new, better job is the wrench in the process, if you will.
If income wasn't an issue for me, I probably would have quit my job a long time ago.
Because a fair number of people have worked for good companies, have been treated well and do see reward for hard work. Others have worked for companies that just plain suck. Personal perspective plays out a lot in these discussions, and many assume that their experience can be generically applied.
Can you share with us some of these good companies? I would definitely like to land a job with one of them.
Can you share with us some of these good companies? I would definitely like to land a job with one of them.
That is a rather ambiguous question given that I was speaking in general terms about the individual experience.
In my career, prior to my current job, I worked for a BioMedical engineering company and three pharmaceutical CROs. The BioMed company was a great environment, as was the first CRO. The second was a great work environment until they got bought out and the new owners ran it into the ground. The thired...ehh...was getting ready to begin the process of jumping ship when they ended up laying some of us off.
Even then, there may be some variability in one's experience in a given company. The scond company I worked for was massive (global presence). They treated their employees well in general, but I had the fortune to work with some very cool people who were a huge help to my professional growth and were simply a pleasure to work with. I am sure there were others in the same position as myself that worked with people who were just the opposite, and likely had a different experience there than I did.
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Some of it could be that what drove people to certain careers, has now been taken out of the equation. I know some probation officers who just push through bare bones written reports, because they have such a high caseload. The reason they enjoyed the profession was to meet with the individuals and delve more into their history/story. They could then form detailed reports and really try to help the individuals. The way it is now with less people, they are basically on a continuous assembly line in front of a computer typing reports.
this is similar to what has happened to education. education has become a somewhat paper pushing profession with lots of attention paid to data. there are some days i feel more like i'm engineering a child rather than teaching the child. education has become very data driven and robotic.
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