I’m not doubting everyone else’s experience - just hearing all these corporate episodes is making me feel extremely lucky about all my employers (moderately male dominated field too, except my current nuclear team is about 50/50)
Senior year of college I went to one corporate recruiting interview and asked about work life balance and the lady’s gut reaction was to go “HA!” So that was the end of that.
Chose a small consulting firm, which couldn’t pay me the super great amounts of big companies (though I could still easily afford to live alone in a a HCOL area), but because it was small I actually got to do all the parts of projects it takes you years to be able to do at the huge companies. And because I was more than 0.01% of their employees my work mattered enough to grant me decent security even though I was an at will employee. Actual work life balance let me do a part time masters. Less promotion steps available between me and buying the LLC than a corporate employer, but I was only planning on staying a few years anyway.
Took my actual, non-glorified-data-entry experience and my masters and got a cushy GS job (which means, unlike most people in the US, I am not an at will employee). Federal government has lots of fully remote jobs now, and GS pay outside of big cities is higher than you’d think.
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I’m not doubting everyone else’s experience - just hearing all these corporate episodes is making me feel extremely lucky about all my employers (moderately male dominated field too, except my current nuclear team is about 50/50)
Senior year of college I went to one corporate recruiting interview and asked about work life balance and the lady’s gut reaction was to go “HA!” So that was the end of that.
Chose a small consulting firm, which couldn’t pay me the super great amounts of big companies (though I could still easily afford to live alone in a a HCOL area), but because it was small I actually got to do all the parts of projects it takes you years to be able to do at the huge companies. And because I was more than 0.01% of their employees my work mattered enough to grant me decent security even though I was an at will employee. Actual work life balance let me do a part time masters. Less promotion steps available between me and buying the LLC than a corporate employer, but I was only planning on staying a few years anyway.
Took my actual, non-glorified-data-entry experience and my masters and got a cushy GS job (which means, unlike most people in the US, I am not an at will employee). Federal government has lots of fully remote jobs now, and GS pay outside of big cities is higher than you’d think.
Highly recommend.