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What 3 things are keeping you in your current job?

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YourBoldDog · 16/01/2025 09:10

I’ve been thinking about my current job lately - it’s stressful, with tight deadlines and a lot of pressure, and I’ve seriously considered quitting. But despite the challenges, there are a few perks that are keeping me here longer than any of my previous roles:

  1. Stock options
  2. Free lunch and bottomless snacks/drinks
  3. Travel opportunities

What’s keeping you in your current job, even if it’s not ideal? Are there perks or reasons that make you stay or do you just love what you do?

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Ladymuck2022 · 19/01/2025 00:08

Remote working (only have to attend interviews in person once or twice a month)
(if it ever changed the wages would barely cover cost of commute)
The market was poor when I got offered the job. (It was the only interview)
Habit forming and a little scared now to go elsewhere. (I think it is an age thing as much as people on here saying it doesn’t matter)
The notice period can be off putting to new employers who can hire someone more immediately available.

Wincher · 18/01/2025 23:54

I am half looking - applied for something which seemed like a perfect fit recently, but not heard anything and I think prob too late now. But otherwise:
Pay - we’ve had good COL increases the last couple of years and it’s very hard to find anything else out there paying the same or more
Flexibility - 3days WFH and 2 in office (perfect balance IMO) and I also work a bit less than full time which suits family needs (though work every day)
Varied workload - no two days are the same

frogpigdonkey · 18/01/2025 23:48

It's easy and sufficient to live on comfortably
I like the people and feel I have a chance to develop the juniors
It's a part time senior role which are hard to find

JoelyJoe · 18/01/2025 23:45

really interesting work
making a difference
work / life balance

but the pay is sh*t... that'll probably be the reason I leave, if / when I do

MarioLink · 16/01/2025 19:29

short commute
good annual leave allowance
fairly good pay

If I could add another it would be free tea and coffee.

DilemmaDelilah · 16/01/2025 19:26

The pay
the fact I can work from home permanently
the kindness that was shown to me, and is still being shown to me, when I was receiving treatment for cancer

WhiteRose222 · 16/01/2025 19:23

Pay
Flexibility working pattern/location
Annual leave entitlement

SurferRona · 16/01/2025 19:14

Love this!

  1. Pay and pension
  2. My team
  3. It's often enjoyable/rarely horrible

If I were to have a fourth, it would be lack of imagination on my part 😝

PartingGift · 16/01/2025 19:10
  1. Work life balance: longish days, but no night shifts or weekends, which is rare in my field. I work 3 days a week, so get a 4 day weekend each week.
  2. Pension.
  3. Ease I guess, it's not a hard job compared to other nursing jobs.
BurntBroccoli · 16/01/2025 18:21

Working from home
Leave is 28 days plus BHs plus extra at Christmas
I'm not micromanaged

PumpkinPie2016 · 16/01/2025 18:11

I do actually enjoy my job (most of the time haha!). I'm a teacher and I do think it's school dependent but for me at the moment;

  1. Good CPD suited to my level.
  2. The kids are brilliant.
  3. Supportive colleagues/SLT
  4. Serving the community/Town I have grown up in.
  5. Short commute.

That's more than 3 but I do like it.

ssd · 16/01/2025 18:08

Money
Money
Money

StScholastica · 16/01/2025 18:07

My lovely colleagues
My patients
Pension.

TranscendingTheSituation · 16/01/2025 18:06

I’m a secondary school teacher but not in the UK.

  • The pay. I’d need to go back to school to find another job where I make this much money.
  • The holidays. We have 7 weeks off in the summer and it’s glorious.
  • I do very much enjoy the teaching and the kids and the fact that no two days are the same.
gabsdot45 · 16/01/2025 18:02

4 day week
7-3 shift so I get home early.
Decent salary
I also really like my job and the people I work with.

Sunnnybunny72 · 16/01/2025 17:58

Pension. Pension. Pension.
NHS. Going at 55 in just less than two years.

psych25 · 16/01/2025 17:55

Forgot to add - it's also part time hours which gives me the work-life balance I need at the moment whilst DD is young.

psych25 · 16/01/2025 17:53

It's 2 miles from my home so my commute is a dream.

It's extremely interesting and fascinating (albeit challenging at times!) - I'm certainly never bored.

It's well paid.

brassandswitch · 16/01/2025 17:12

Maternity pay, benefits and the fact I can work from home - apart from the travelling a handful times a year, it's cushty.

Tia86 · 16/01/2025 17:11

Term time only
Each day you never know quite what to expect
The team I work with

Cluelessasacucumber · 16/01/2025 17:09

Lots of colleagues have left and I am considering it due to organisation growing too big too fast and all the toxicity and inefficiency that has come with that. But what's keeping me here is...

  1. Flexible, hybrid working
  2. Still actually believe in my job when I'm allowed to get on with it, work on really important and interesting projects.
  3. Don't want to let people down. It's a community role and I hold a lot of relationships, networks and knowledge which matter for both the community and my colleagues
JustWalkingTheDogs · 16/01/2025 15:45

My boss - trusts me to do my job without interruption, has my back when I need him to

Flexibility - see above, I wfh full time and come and go as I please, as long as I get my job done and the customers are happy he doesn't care 'how' I do it

Salary - I'm on a very good salary

Dibbsy · 16/01/2025 15:17

Colleagues
Staff fee discount (work in a school)
Free food

Laura36TTC · 16/01/2025 15:15

Leave entitlement

My working hours (9-5 Monday-Wednesday)

Pay

Katesam2016 · 16/01/2025 15:00

Location. Less than 5 min drive from my home and also my dd school.

hours. Manager has let me come in early so I can pick dd from school at 3:10pm. (Keeping my full time hours)

pay. Wouldn’t get the same £ for a similar role elsewhere