This largely tracks with my experience wanting to work at a “more reasonable” company and struggling to do so. Many seemingly good jobs start to look a lot more awful the closer I get to them and I lose motivation. (I understand that this is also about risk tolerance and I’m fairly risk averse. And I understand that I’m simply not a strong candidate for highly competitive roles which may skew more sane.) Additionally, leaving a job and finding a new job are both immensely costly acts. So when it looks incredibly rare to find a “sane” workplace, and the costs keep mounting, in many cases the reasonable thing to do seems to be to stay.
This largely tracks with my experience wanting to work at a “more reasonable” company and struggling to do so. Many seemingly good jobs start to look a lot more awful the closer I get to them and I lose motivation. (I understand that this is also about risk tolerance and I’m fairly risk averse. And I understand that I’m simply not a strong candidate for highly competitive roles which may skew more sane.) Additionally, leaving a job and finding a new job are both immensely costly acts. So when it looks incredibly rare to find a “sane” workplace, and the costs keep mounting, in many cases the reasonable thing to do seems to be to stay.