What 3 things are keeping you in your current job?

[YourBoldDog]

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?

Money
Can wfh and be flexible with my hours
I really like the creative parts of the job but don't get enough of them and am looking for another job that will be more of the good bits.

Mainly the money though.
If I won the lottery I'd hand in my notice the next day.

Flexibility - the ability to manage when and where I work for the most of the time
Lots of holiday
Sometimes it's quite interesting
And also where I live there aren't many other options with my skills so I feel I am well paid in a secure job with loads of flexibility and anything else would be a pay cut for more rigid hours

Eugh feeling the same OP. Lots of re-orgs and restructuring at my work and whilst I've somehow miraculously survived for 10+yrs there without being culled in one of the many redundancies or layoffs (tech industry, so this is just commonplace) I now suddenly just feel tired and resentful of it all. Tired and burnt out from role changes and being shuffled about. BUT.... its not that easy to quit when you have a family and are the main earner by a significant distance, so the things I'm focusing on and keeping me staying currently are:

1. Pay - It pays v well and I think I'd be job hunting a LONG time to find similar level of pay (basic, bonus, stock options)
2. Flexibility - hybrid work, no one checks if I need to pop to collect kids from school, can do school drop offs and start a bit later, don't need 'permission' to attend appointments or even do a quick gym class if my diary and workload permits
3. Colleagues - I really do like the close colleagues I have and I'd genuinely miss a lot of them. I started at this place when I was quite fresh out of uni and now I'm older, married, kids, house etc. so feel I've grown up with them!

I’m completely unqualified for it but they gave me the job anyway and are paying towards a qualification (degree). Won’t realistically be able to move until qualified.

Can wfh much of the time.

Nice manager who is v understanding of the realities of having young kids and happy for me to learn on the job/doesn’t mind that I’ve no idea what I’m doing most of the time.

Pension/regular pay. I had the opportunity to go back to my previous self-employed career at the same time as starting this job, which would’ve meant shorter hours and largely term time only, but no pension, no sick pay, unpredictable hours etc.

For me its
Pension (27.5% total contribution p.m)
Annual leave Entitlement (42 days p.a)
Great training opportunities - if I wanted to do a degree, for instance, they'd pay for it.

Despite it not being the most exciting job, the commute being a pain, in-office majority of the week and the workload being stressful at times, I'll be staying put long term, as I know those benefits are nigh impossible to get elsewhere.

No stress
Pay
Leave entitlement
Pension

Pension
Hybrid working
Good holiday entitlement
Colleagues
Lovely boss

Still want to win the lottery.

WFH
it's easy
Fits around child care

Private health insurance
flexi work
a lovely lovely lovely ceo, who has bent over backwards for me last year when I was dealing with cancer

1. the money/my pension plan
2. easy commute
3. better the devil you know than the devil you don’t

Really supportive managers

Great colleagues

Flexibility to fit the hours in around other things (part time) as long as I get the work done

definitely not the pay

Every now and then I think about leaving, but I do have it good really. Top 3 things:

• Fully remote role - here for autistic teen when he gets home from school and can walk the dog on lunch.
• Worked here long enough to know what I'm doing (pretty much) so very little day to day stress.
• My Manager - she's great and always makes the job easier.

Flexible working
Just got a promotion so feeling valued
Good benefits

Only work 4 days
Mainly from home
Know the job well

Great pay and no stress/easy workload

Lovely work colleagues
Reasonable commute with a bit of WFH to break up the week
Leave entitlement allows me to manage school holidays for a good portion of the time

I'm proud of my achievements professionally.
My close colleagues.

I really can't think of a third.

Overseas travel opportunities
working from home
hotel and airline points

id definitely leave if it wasn’t for these

1. short commute (3 mins walk)
2. the hours work around family life
3. staff discount

I am disabled and don't drive so having a job i am good at and is paid reasonably well is point one. I can work from home and it's very close to home.

I'm currently on a temporary promotion so mainly that!

But it's a supportive team who are happy to share their work to give me more experience.

It's very flexible.

It's a Civil Service pension which I had had since I was 19. Moving jobs I'd stay in the CS, it would be foolish not to. (And I admit I may not cope in the private sector!)

Pay at the end of the week, even if not high paid.

Holding out for redundancy pay which I know will come in the next year or two.

Too lazy to to look for a new job 😆

Supportive line manager
Term time only option
one WFH day

Pay is reasonably competitive
Fully WFH with some flexibility
No weekend work and complete switch off when on holiday

Wfh and flexibility
Pay
Interesting work

The management are poor and quite disempowering. That will be the thing that makes me leave.