[speaker001:] okay well
[speaker002:] lets see I I guess I'll I'll mention it I always one of the things I always considered was real important about job benefits I always uh I know they can't do anything about it but I always thought location and quality of life in the region was important towards a a job benefit at least it had a lot to do with what I chose is in in my job and and and besides uh you know uh I guess uh uh salary and uh the work but see those are the things that they can't really do much about
[speaker001:] that's true unless it's a large corporation that has a lot of different branches uh it was important for me to pick a job uh to choose a job that was in the northeast uh because I like the region and my family is here at one point I'd interviewed for a company that wanted to send me to Boise Idaho and that really seemed like a negative benefit to me
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah the uh I was uh I actually was from the midwest but I uh I always liked the uh concept of going to a warmer client climate uh so
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh I generally leaned towards the sun belt uh I've worked in uh San Diego and I've worked in Atlanta so you can see that I've moved moved father south since then uh I used to live in Ohio when I when I was going to school and uh it's still it it becomes a very strong benefit I uh I interviewed with uh companies in uh Baltimore and uh Boston and uh just the the amount of time that it shuts down that that winter shuts you down for activity always used to bother me because I really never got into the winter sports but I like to be very much into the active intramural sports that was important to me
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh other job benefited uh job job benefits uh uh I like the idea of uh companies being flexible uh uh with uh time schedules as much as possible I mean I you can't do too much and I understand that
[speaker001:] I agree with that uh I found though that that uh it it will benefit both the employee and the company I work for a firm that does have a very flexible schedule and I can't remember the last time that I just worked forty hours a week so the uh it it works out that if I have to go in late for a reason or I have to leave early for a reason no one raises an eyebrow but because of that I'm not a clock watcher if I if I knew they were expecting me there at eight thirty every day and I couldn't leave until five I I think I'd be uh uh have a greater tendency to wait until the clock hit five and then say I'm out of here
[speaker002:] you're out of there yeah you then you then you punch in a clock and all you are is an hourly as needed person and then you say well you know why should I give them anymore
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but what they uh if they respect you as a professional you treat them like a professional at that I I I take it then that you are also a professional a salaried employee
[speaker001:] yeah that's correct that's correct
[speaker002:] uh it usually they end up getting a lot more hours than I I I uh than the classic forty hours a week sometimes I hate to think about it if I would actually add up hours and I figure if I were getting time and a half what I was really making per hour
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] oops but uh well let's see what other I I've always liked I've always liked some vacation I I've I've been fortunate I actually had a
[speaker001:] another um-hum
[speaker002:] uh the company I just just transferred jobs about a week ago so but uh for the last five years I was in a company that had four weeks vacation
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] now that was a real nice benefit it gave me a lot of flexibility uh but of course now I've gone to zero amount of years in the company so now I'm back to the
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] to the uh original two weeks that was a tough benefit to give up
[speaker001:] right  uh the company I'm working for now starts everyone out at three weeks vacation
[speaker002:] yeah that is a good benefit
[speaker001:] and I I thought that was great except during the first year I ended up only being able to take about a week and a half of it
[speaker002:] right because of the amount of amount of work that you had to be done
[speaker001:] right I was I was so busy uh and it we've got a very small department and I was just uh wearing so many hats that it was very difficult for me to take time off and when I did take the time off I'd uh get calls from work anyway so it's only been uh in the