I work in newsgathering for a major international news organisation, I have oodles of flexibility, great work-life balance, massive variety, the ability to do all sorts of things that I wouldn't be able to in a different job, no responsibility other than what I put on myself, a great team, pretty much unfireable, and the bulk of the problems I (and the rest of my team) used to have with work a few years ago have all been solved.
However the flip side is that pay is relatively terrible. It's good for the UK, but not great (top 15%), and pretty terrible for tech.
Just had a recruiter knock me up for what seems like quite a junior job, fully remote (like my current), but offering a 40% pay rise.
I'm fairly confident I'll be able to stay where I am until I retire - I'm about in mid-career, but expenses are increasing, and there's no way I'll be able to keep even a cost-of-living raise in this industry.
If money wasn't an issue I'd stay where I am, I think there's some interesting challenges coming up in the next few years, but ultimately money is a big issue.
There does come a point where you start to look at the size of your savings account even if you really like what you're doing. I was in a job that I mostly really liked--at least until latterly. But between dot-bomb and other things it was not great financially. Fortunately, where I went from there got me back to where I wanted to be.
However the flip side is that pay is relatively terrible. It's good for the UK, but not great (top 15%), and pretty terrible for tech.
Just had a recruiter knock me up for what seems like quite a junior job, fully remote (like my current), but offering a 40% pay rise.
I'm fairly confident I'll be able to stay where I am until I retire - I'm about in mid-career, but expenses are increasing, and there's no way I'll be able to keep even a cost-of-living raise in this industry.
If money wasn't an issue I'd stay where I am, I think there's some interesting challenges coming up in the next few years, but ultimately money is a big issue.