[speaker001:] okay uh I just currently quit my job and so  I really don't receive any benefits right now
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but my husband does and um I think one of the um my first of all always salary and second the second thing is um because we have children so it'd be um health benefits and medical benefits and and um right now we have
[speaker002:] yeah yeah definitely
[speaker001:] probably some excellent benefits right now we have with Aetna and uh I don't know if you're familiar with them but we're real happy with them
[speaker002:] yeah yes I've had a variety of different jobs with of various types um in the computer field and so seen a variety of different types of benefits um I've worked for for for awhile and they are you know really um an academic type of place and then I've worked with regular you know industry type places and then with others that are kind of half way between and stuff so I've seen a wide range of both you know nonsalary type benefits and other stuff you know like health care that's either fully or partially paid and you know some have like bonuses and others have had lots of vacation time but not much of other types of benefits and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so yeah I would I'd say health care is way up there especially for anybody with kids um
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and that's one of the big things that we always look at you know when we when I think about taking changing jobs is you know you know what kind of health care they have and does the company pay for it you know all or partially or how does that work
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um also um vacation time too is a is a big one for me
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] um and I guess support for whatever whatever other you know kinds of professional activities you have at you know work
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] um because I've been at places which offer a lot of support and others that don't offer any
[speaker001:] hm right
[speaker002:] and some that sometimes that's coincided with a place that offers more vacation time though so that's not so bad um you know it's kind of a give and take kind of thing I think
[speaker001:] right yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] um I say that uh health care is probably definitely number one though uh you can wind up just losing you know losing all your salary can't can't even begin to pay for what you can wind up losing you know with a major illness or something
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] right um and and and another good thing is with the health benefits when they give you more than two choices and who to go with
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and that really helped us out a great deal so but my husband does get vacation and it's worked out really good for us too
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so but
[speaker002:] yeah yeah flexible hours are are pretty important to me as well um because that makes a big difference my wife works part time
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] and she works um as a assistant manager in a fabric store and so she works a lot of evenings and weekends
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and so two days a week I um manage to get home early enough to meet the kids from the bus because she works you know goes in early those days and works like you know noon till close um so we have
[speaker001:] well that's great that y'all can work that out that's really good
[speaker002:] yeah and being on a you know rigid schedule wouldn't there wouldn't be anyway to do that at all
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and I think it's kind of neat to be able to spend the afternoons with the kids occasionally too because I mean usually you know you go to work before they're awake or as they're getting up for school and you get home and it's already dark unless it's summer time you know and even if it's summer sometimes you get home so late that there's you know you can't do anything with them
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] and especially in the winter I mean you get get up in the dark and come home in the dark you know it's like it's like a vampire sometimes
[speaker001:] yeah yeah yeah it's that same with my husband because he's got pretty flexible hours if as long as he puts in the hours he needs to do with that's worked out really well for us too
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um well is there anything else that you look for or
[speaker002:] um a lot of it to I guess is
[speaker001:] you hit pretty you put a lot of the main points in
[speaker002:] yeah I think some it is how the uh you know I guess it's not really a direct benefit but how you um performance is rated and stuff like that at work
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] because I've been uh especially in large corporations you can really you know wind up getting having you know real problems I've found out I've worked for a few you know several thousand plus you know type companies
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and it especially if you're doing like professional work where there you know it's kind of ethereal as to what you're doing you know if you're like I've I work with uh computer systems a lot
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so it's kind of hard to say you know if you're a you know brick layer somebody can look and see you know well yeah you laid you know fifteen thousand bricks today and they were all straight and your building didn't fall down you know yeah you did a great job if you build computer systems like well you know what does that computer program really do you know or if especially if you write like papers you know or do design studies or something it's real hard to rate something like that
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] it's like being a painter or you know or something an artist it's like well jeez how do you really rate you know Michelangelo you know how would you tell if he was you know really good or so-so or whatever
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] yeah and that does make want a person want to stay