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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?

OP posts:
EvilNextDoor · 16/01/2025 09:54

Work from home
pension
my line manager

That’s it - pay is so so

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 16/01/2025 09:53

I hate my job most of the time as I work long hours and it's very stressful. But I stay due to:

Leave entitlement - it's good because I've been in the job 20yrs so have accrued

Fairly flexible - I can pretty much have whatever time off I want, date wise.

Can plan my own time - this is essential as my DP has multiple jobs and a main job that is not flexible. I travel overnight for work regularly so can only do this on days my partner isn't working. Work rarely dictate the days I have to travel.

Catza · 16/01/2025 09:53
  1. I love it
  2. I have a great team
  3. Great work-life balance
Newtrix · 16/01/2025 09:52

Work in retail so not many perks but;
8 weeks holiday
Colleagues who are close friends after 20 years
Very flexible hours

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 16/01/2025 09:51

Pension contribution
private medical
3 days in the office only

Oblomov25 · 16/01/2025 09:50

Decent money, nice people, close to home. Easy. No stress. Interesting. Plus they are paying for me to get a qualification I should have got 20 years ago.

gohomeroger1 · 16/01/2025 09:49

Flexibility
Pension
Wfh then office is 10 minutes drive when in

BitOutOfPractice · 16/01/2025 09:49

lovely clients and colleagues

interesting work (to me, it’d bore most of you to tears I expect)

bring my own boss (for 26 years now!)

mylittledoggie · 16/01/2025 09:48

Good pay
Fully remote
Nice people especially immediate team

unintended101 · 16/01/2025 09:48

Fully remote
Nice honest boss
Good pay
Easy low stress work

Otherwise the company is terrible!

honeylulu · 16/01/2025 09:48

Good pension
Security (long service)
Well paid (could get bit more elsewhere but on balance it wouldn't make up for the above two points)

Also, I like the actual work (lawyer) which i enjoy and find interesting.
Plus hybrid working which I like and hours which can be long are nothing like some other law firms.
We merged with a bigger more corporate firm a couple of years ago and the culture is a bit toxic and the teams and work have been restructured and nothing feels cohesive. Lots of our junior lawyers have left.

I've had a couple of other offers but weighing everything up, I'm better off where I am.
I'm 50 and planning to retire in 10 years anyway.

Hippomumma · 16/01/2025 09:47

Flexibility (WFH)
Unsettled job market
Pay

Comtesse · 16/01/2025 09:47
  1. inertia
  2. fear of failing to get anything else
  3. laziness
FreshSpringGreen · 16/01/2025 09:47

The pay is good.
The flexibility means that I can be there for DD after school and when she's ill.
I get to travel a few times a year.

MrsBuntyS · 16/01/2025 09:46

WFH
Flexibility
Good pension contributions

biedrona · 16/01/2025 09:46

Only the fact that I haven't found another one yet - I am looking

Ihopeyouhavent · 16/01/2025 09:46
  1. I get to WFH 4 days a week
  2. I'm well paid for very little work
  3. I'm well respected and highly thought of in work

Love my job, im very lucky.

GameOfJones · 16/01/2025 09:46

I don't love my job. It can be both boring at times and then super stressful, the team isn't very well organised. However I know the grass isn't always greener, I've definitely had worse jobs. What is keeping me is:

Good pension

Really nice colleagues in my team

Short commute and very flexible with WFH or in the office

I've decided I want the stability and flexibility for now as it fits around my life and the kids. I'm working to live, not living to work. So on the hard days I think the money is decent and I work with a nice bunch of people, and if I need to be in the office it's 15 minutes away. If I need to go to my daughters' school play during my working day, no issues and I just make the time up. It could be a lot worse, as I know from bitter experience!

ColourBlueColourPurple · 16/01/2025 09:45

I do locum work, so the flexibility would be unrivaled in any other job. I'm a single mum and DCs father does EOW, nursery can't have my little one full time, so I'm kind of stuck in this job until circumstances change.

That's all I can think of really!

SerenityNowSerenityNow · 16/01/2025 09:45

Career progression opportunities
Flexibility
Opportunity to travel

Starlight1984 · 16/01/2025 09:43

Ultravox · 16/01/2025 09:22

Money
Colleagues
Flexibility

I don’t like the actual job but the above keeps me from quitting.

Same here.

RoseyLentil · 16/01/2025 09:43

Good pay
WFH
Fantastic team

Beebsta · 16/01/2025 09:43
  1. Good pay
  2. WFH 4 days/week, 1 day in office
  3. scared of losing these benefits but being equally stressed somewhere else.
LardyCakeLover · 16/01/2025 09:40
  1. Only an 8 mile (20 minute) commute
  2. Easy, totally stress free work
  3. £700 day rate

But sooooo boring

Biffsboys · 16/01/2025 09:40

Holidays
Flexible Working
Great Manager