{"id":3,"date":"2024-11-17T19:11:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/?p=3"},"modified":"2024-11-17T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T19:11:25","slug":"golden-handcuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/2024\/11\/17\/golden-handcuffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Handcuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I struggled at a job for almost 10 years with golden handcuffs, so I don\u2019t take this term lightly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine this, you come from a bad work environment that lays you off after 7 years. Then, after trying to find something through the holidays – you get a job at a dynamic membership organization\u2026.and they\u2019re offering more money than you\u2019ve been paid since you left Seattle 9 years ago \u2013 fabulous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re given one duty \u2013 supervise a sub-committee and their program within a longstanding committee. That\u2019s it. You do it well, you do it quickly and you ask for more work. Then you ask for more work, and more, and more. You get turned down for two jobs that your (less qualified) peers get. Suddenly you\u2019re 5 years in, trying to figure out if this job, and even if the pay is good, will it \u201cwill work for you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little more explanation without getting too political, this is an extremely conservative organization (not who I am) and they are focused on the home building industry \u2013 which is of interest. Tried and tried to keep the focus on the positives, the pay was good, helping businesses build more homes. But, during the legislative session, the job was just \u2013 toxic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\u2026by now you\u2019re in it for 5 years and you\u2019ve got kiddos now in college (and the pay is pretty dang good) and you are not sure you can get another job in your community with only an associate degree. So, you choose to stay. Try to find projects that meet your interest, where you can have some autonomy. You choose to stick your neck out more, and see what happens \u2013 then COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By this point you\u2019re done, you realize that you need to get out of there and so you start back to college. Then, in under a year \u2013 you\u2019ve got an opportunity with a job to do the real work \u2013 putting people into homes and you can do the work you\u2019ve always wanted to do \u2013 and the pay is the same!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I struggled at a job for almost 10 years with golden handcuffs, so I don\u2019t take this term lightly. Imagine this, you come from a bad work environment that lays you off after 7 years. Then, after trying to find something through the holidays – you get a job at a dynamic membership organization\u2026.and they\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/goldenhandcuffs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}