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[quote=Anonymous]I only applied to the job under pressure from my husband.  He applied to a job that would have provided him with a huge pay raise and great benefits and he got an interview but didn't get the job.  He loves his job currently but he gets very few benefits: 11 paid days off a year and they are a little flexible if he has to take unpaid leave and stay home with our child.

I currently earn slightly less but with my great benefits, it is MUCH more.  We will lose our healthcare if I don't work full-time and we simply cannot live on his income alone, unless we sell our pleasant but fairly modest townhome and downgrade into an older, more affordable townhome in a neighborhood  that isn't as pleasant.

I've seriously looked and applied to local jobs and while they offered them to me, I would have taken a pay cut and also a cut on my benefits including a huge loss on my paid time off.  I enjoy the area in my field and that's what I've become an expert at the past four years.  There may be a few other jobs I could apply for in my area that aren't available right now but there really aren't many options.  I've looked into moving up to DC or moving to a "nearby" larger city and I don't see any options for professional growth here for me.  My husband has options but where he's at in his career, he's not able to move up.  He needs to get licensed and has a lot of hoops to jump through....he's also not very motivated to change jobs or increase his pay as he's content just having a mediocre pay with crappy benefits.  I'm quite literally stuck in my job.

I may be responding more emotionally to the issues at hand in my office but the issues are significant.  I've spoken with other professionals who are alarmed at what is going on.  There's serious racial discrimination and discrimination against women.  My supervisor is black and has confronted our boss about the racial discrimination he and other POC have faced through the years and he was told that there is no discrimination.  I've heard horrible comments and when I even shared a relevant academic article about white privilege with a co-worker who I thought would be interested (I'm white and she's white), I was reprimanded and told to not share anything that most even possibly offend anyone while the woman who received the article screamed at me, left work, and was treated like she had been SO hurt.  I'm considered a radical, an extremist for being a pacifist and advocating for social justice (one of the foundations of my field).  It's radical to love learning and to strive for best practices.  It's radical and "frankly offensive" to suggest that a multi-cultural or diversity training is critical to appropriately serving the community when most other local agencies have tons of multicultural trainings...it's unacceptable in my agency because "nothing wrong going on here".  I was punished for doing my job and sharing what my supervisor asked me to share during a meeting with community stakeholders....my punishment is that because the local law enforcement didn't like what I shared (as I was directed by my agency to share), they refuse to work with me and therefore are leaving me hanging in possibly dangerous situations and impacting my ability to even do my job.  Then I get dirty looks around the office and since I spoke up about the racial injustice and reminded my boss that I've experienced harassment when I was a pumping/breastfeeding mom with constant comments....he's begun taking away my job responsibilities and piling on 'extra' work.  This has become hostile and I would like to address it and have a plan to do so but I'm nervous about staying and basically being the whistle-blower.  I would prefer to be out of this agency before I call them on their crap.  My supervisor just thinks it will all blow over but this level of hostility and utter ignorance goes against everything I believe in and I ethically and morally cannot just 'let it go'.  I hate to have to leave while I'm pregnant as I've been here long enough that I accrue great leave, I have great healthcare, and my commute is long (45 min) but pretty and mostly pleasant and I will get my 12 weeks unpaid leave.  I was going to try and stick it out for the year at least, take my leave, and apply for jobs while on leave but my family pushed me into applying and frankly the job sounds great. [/quote]

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