Month: March 2017

Conference

Work conference. Traveling to a conference is great, you get to get away from the daily grind and fly somewhere new. Meet new people, learn new skills. At previous jobs, I would go to these events and no one cared when I returned, most would never even ask if I had learned anything.

For this conference I get to fly back to what I consider is my Home State, however I will probably never move there again. I have several hundred friends there. The real kind, not the Facebook kind. And plenty of family lives in that state. I’ve made arrangements to meet some of my closest friends for dinners on various nights. Should be fun. Yay 🙂

However, at my new job, thing are very different here. I have to prepare a presentation on all of the topics. This means taking a copious amount of notes. Then I have to create and present said presentation in front of roughly  20+ people. Yay 🙁

Work Conferences.

Antsy

Not sure what it is. I stay somewhere a little while and then I start wondering if I can do better, or make more, or look for a more modern workplace. I have changed jobs many times in the last 10 years. Luckily having a background that I have has enabled me to find work throughout the country.  However all of it at a cost to me of not vesting in any one place.

I do  try to save as much as I can though. Currently contributing 15% of may take home pay. The company has a weird pension system, that I’m required to contribute just over 9% to. The pension basically pays out 2% for each year you work, of course only if you vest. Given my age, I would have to work till I’m 70 just to get 20 years. I am allowed to buy 5 years, but its not cheap.

Yet none of that matters if I can’t stay long enough to vest and since i’m currently considering if I’m in the wright job. We’ll you get the picture. The endless cycle of self annihilation.

Having worked at a few places that were very modern or forward thinking on how they treat employees, I’ve come to realize that is worth its weight in gold. I’f I could go back to the last one that I left, I would never leave again. I was tempted by more money only to find myself in a total hateful work environment. If you find yourself in a job that doesn’t hold you to a clock and is open and collaborative and treats everyone as equals, Stay there!