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?

My lovely colleagues
My patients
Pension.

Money
Money
Money

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.

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

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.

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 😝

Pay
Flexibility working pattern/location
Annual leave entitlement

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

short commute
good annual leave allowance
fairly good pay

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

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

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

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

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.