6/17/16 Switching Jobs, How Often?

    Wife is in the process of interviewing for a new job.  I don't know if she will get it, but we have the discussion all the time of her needing something new.  When I think about it, I chuckle because although she has been in Bastrop ten years doing her current job, I have been doing mine for twenty years and I never think "I need a new job to challenge me".  She used to work at ACC and when she left we were having the same discussion that she needed something better.  She kept getting new managers and of course everyone promised to be better than the last one.  It is starting to feel like deja vu all over again.  She had a new manager this past year, and she is fixing to get a new one.  There are new faces already and their biggest contribution is moving people around.  Seriously!!
    I'm sorry, but if the best you can do is logistics, get your ass to the warehouse and move shit around on a forklift until you tire yourself out.  When she started there ten years ago, she had an office, then she shared the office, then she was moved to a cubicle, then to a smaller cubicle, then all the brown people were swept together and sat in an alcove together, and the newest move is to a still smaller desk space, with no walls.  If they would continue and just remove all her floor space and let her work from home, that would be great.
    She is looking in the private sector, but she is finding that they are expecting to pay much less.  That is not really logical.  You expect the people to work year round, through the summer, no Christmas break, no Spring Break, and no week off for Thanksgiving, and you would then like to pay 20-40% less than they can make in the school districts.  The only candidates you are going to have in that scenario is child molesters who can't work around kids applying for your low paying jobs.  If you want creative types and you want to steal them from the education sector, pay a real salary, otherwise, keep employing the same people with the same dim witted ideas.  I know Wife can make a difference anywhere she joins, she brings energy and isn't afraid to employ ideas that are not standard.  But she is not a moron who is going to leave a place that gives her three months off right now to take a lower paying job that requires her to be in the office year round.
    The ball is in your court Non-profit, to paraphrase the Black Eyed Peas, Wife will take you into 3008, currently you are working in 2000 and late.  Join the modern world and the modern times, I guarantee it.