I have worked for the same company for the last 14 years. I have met a lot of good people in that time (and some I could have done without ever knowing as well).
The company has 200+ employees and has been around for over 25 years. At 14 years I am still a some what of a junior employee. When I started I interviewed with 5 different employees and they are all still working here.
Certinaly people have come and gone (and some came back again). I think that is natural as folks look for something that will satisfy them.
What is clear to me is people do not quit and leave companies. They abandoned managers and bosses. When someone loses faith (or never had it) in a companies leadership, they drift away.
I work for a good company with an owner. The company has a strong moral compass. People are passionate about what they do.
Don’t get me wrong, not everyone comes to work everyday wanting to change the world. My co-workers do come to work with an obvious desire to continually improve their area of influence. Even on frustrating days it helps to know the folks you work with care about what they do and how it affects everyone else.
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A professor of mine used to tell us, “It doesn’t much matter what you study, it matters who is teaching.” And so it is at work.
The actual day-to-day seems far less important than is having that connection to a “moral compass” and the direction it is pointing to.