i like my job, in the loose sense that i like the social function of my role and the institutional slack i've nested myself within to allow me to do good-ish works most of the time, in spite of institutional forces and naked, crass careerism of the power structure.

that said, they've bungled so much in recent years and continue to do anything except pay regular workers more money. they have hemorrhaged so many people since covid popped off, so many critical roles are unfilled because the pay offering for the credential / work requirements is still assbackwards.

it's so stupid, because an equivalent gig with the feds is like GS-12+, which for me would be like a 50% raise. and the feds have lots of open positions and i guess their union is powerful enough to have been like, "yeah, we don't give a shit, everyone can be remote right now." meaning i wouldn't probably have to relocate.

i almost want to do it just so i can go to my exit interview and be like https://youtu.be/STpeoKr0ocI?t=164