Reply #19: We don't get fancy stuff

[geniph]

like lunches and whatnot, but we do have a fair amount of job security, reasonable vacation and leave policies, and those of us that have a decent manager are left be and not pestered overmuch. The other advantage to working for a public school district, at least in my field, is minimal weekend/evening/holiday work - very rare for a system administrator. Plus we have the summer to get stuff done - we have to work, but most of the users are gone, so we can work without people pestering us about how crappy their computers are.