I mostly enjoy my job:

Good points:

• I have a very good boss who does her best to make our lives easier, and whose expectations of us are clear, consistent, and reasonable.
• I have an excellent benefits package.
• I have very good work-life balance.
• I have a very short commute.
• There’s an on-site fitness center that’s pretty nice and is open before work.
• I get along pretty well with my coworkers.
• I mostly like what I do, when I can get my brain to shut up and cooperate in actually getting some work done.

Bad points:

• I could probably get a sizable pay raise if I got a similar job in the private sector.
• Our institutional funding depends in part on the state legislature & gubernatorial executive actions so we can easily find ourselves with unstable funding.
• Because of budget crunch, we are in a hiring freeze and my department, who just lost a person to retirement, will probably be denied authorization to hire someone to fill the newly vacated spot.

Overall, it’s worth my while to stay here. At a minimum I will stay long enough to vest in the pension system, and because I hate job hunting with a passion, I’ll probably stay at least as long as my boss is here.