Best of the Worst Living Options
Pros
Opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation and pick up a wide repertoire of skills and increase your ability to work under pressure and versatility -albeit whether you want to or not-.
Cons
While I solemnly declare the above is true is correct, the organisation has only survived this long by immovable professional ethics and integrity of its staff, forcing them to work in conditions with pay non-commensurate with experience even if you were more qualified than your manager. Prepare yourself to work to the bone, living your life under the constant pressure of 6-month rolling contracts, and the fine print at the bottom of the contract reminding you that you are dispensable by politely that "subject to funding". I've been a professional in the human services for over 19 years, but I left work every day bitter, angry, and often after 8pm in tears of exhaustion and frustration. I have framed the two emails that I got in 14 months saying "thank you" as if it were a sighting of a UFO. I worked night after night and on weekends which management was aware of given the emails after 7 or 10 pm, and waking up to a work/life balance one from management in the morning. Picture a place were entire departments resign en masse, and staff of diverse backgrounds making complaint after complaint about racist behaviour and words only to receive the "insufficient evidence" quasi-automated response. Further, picture the same place where even temp staff refuse to work at, and those who do lasted a week at best. I am yet to converse with a fellow colleague who resigned without emotional scarring, a place where meeting your targets was to your own detriment, as it was construed as you are cruising, and watch in horror as it doubles, and triples, and soon after you are cordially invited to a Performance Management meeting asking why. No job has ever been harder since, for which I bear gratitude, but the bitterness and lashing out that my resignation elicited, left a sour taste in my mouth, chronic back pain from the worse than Ikea chairs and desks, and the loss of confidence and self-esteem that followed me to my new role akin to PTSD. CLO-nistan. I miss my colleagues every day, and leaving there was like leaving prison after forming life long bonds with your fellow inmates.