I can't find a better job. I can easily find a job that pays more money, but I can't find a job that checks all the boxes.
1. Not an immoral business. (My moral standard is extremely high.)
2. Pays more.
3. As much or more PTO as I have now. (I have a lot, relative to the US at least)
4. No more than 40 hours of work a week under any circumstance.
5. Stable business, not some startup that will disappear in two seconds.
6. Needs/wants the skills that I have.
Recruiters contact me off the hook. It's extremely rare that any job posting even passes the morality test.
Not the person you asked, but for me: fintech, adtech, anything trying to track people or coerce them into doing something they don't want. Anything that enables rich assholes to get richer and more assholish. Anything that helps companies get away with being dicks to the planet or to poor people. Anything cryptocurrency related.
Although even with that list, it's not that rare that jobs pass the morality test. For me it's more about the fact that virtually every company in existence is just plain boring. They're doing boring payment facilitation or a boring knockoff of another boring product. They're just not contributing anything to society at all, have seemingly no reason to exist, and just feel like something an MBA came up with by filling out the "start a company Mad-libs" book his archaic business school gave him upon graduation.
Defense, advertising, finance, MLM, crypto, and gambling are the major ones that I can describe with a single word each. There are many many more, though.
1. Not an immoral business. (My moral standard is extremely high.) 2. Pays more. 3. As much or more PTO as I have now. (I have a lot, relative to the US at least) 4. No more than 40 hours of work a week under any circumstance. 5. Stable business, not some startup that will disappear in two seconds. 6. Needs/wants the skills that I have.
Recruiters contact me off the hook. It's extremely rare that any job posting even passes the morality test.