Boeing

Benefits are great. If you're an engineer, you're part of the (SPEEA) union and will always get a raise every year. We don't get Columbus Day, Presidents Day, or certain other holidays off, but we do get 1.5 weeks mandatory off with pay. You choose your path... you can get away with minimal work.

You get sucked into the slow motion, and it's very easy to fall into a comfort zone where you neither progress nor digress. You can see 8 years fly by and you're doing the same thing, which is not mentally stimulating anymore. When you consider moving to a different job, you realize your degree has 8 years of dust on it and you no longer feel you have the skills acquired through your degree to really apply to a job that requires it.

Listen to your employees. Offer alternative projects, assignments, or jobs when asked for. Don't force your employees to do things you've been told for years they don't like doing.