Pros
*Flexible Hours: Put in 8 hours a day, be there between 10:00am, and 3:00pm, otherwise come in as early or late as you want.
* Flexible Lunch Hours: Take No lunch break, or 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45, 1 hour. Whatever you need to do. If taking a longer than usual lunch break, just let your supervisor know.
*Work from home: 1 Day a week normally, but also if you're sick, or have an appointment in the middle of the day, you are allowed to work from home.
*Paid Time Off: (PTO system) Generates 8 hours (1 day) every 2 weeks.
*Computer work: Nothing too difficult. You are expected to learn, but will be given the time, and support needed to learn. You will use major Enterprise 3rd party tools, and possibly code/update some scripts in bash, perl, python, groovy, or java.
*Supportive Co-workers, Supervisors, and Managers. If you're trying, everybody supports you.
*Superiors appear to have genuine interest in my well being, and insuring that there are parts of the job I'm able to enjoy.
*Not for Profit Organization
*Low stress (most of the time)
*403(b) retirement plan with partial match.
*Optional, (very good) Health Care / Dental/ Vision Benefit
Cons
*Expected Workload has become slightly unrealistic, however our departments Manager completely understands that not all deadlines will be able to be met.
*Working with vendors and/or other teams to accomplish a task can be time consuming. Part of the issue is we have taken "Separation of Duties" too far.
*Projects are expected to stay on schedule, but unplanned Production Issues must be handled regardless. This can become difficult.
*Training is often suggested/offered, but then there are budget freezes, so training is hard to come by, and other times it's very sub-par.
*It's a not for profit organisation so in general payment might be better elsewhere.
*Can get stressful as multiple project deadlines approach, but these periods do not occur often (2-3 times a year).
