I'm seeing a similar trend in my company (well not the company in my country, but our exclusive customer in US). Maybe I should begin to look for something new :D.
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RWarehall, congrats on your new job. Sometimes you have to take a step in a different direction to move forward :).
The last job I quit was my teaching position at the university (which I was working in the same time with my current job). I lasted heroically for about 7 years, but my health began to deteriorate, I still struggle to loose the weight I gained in that period. The pay was awful, though the job itself wasn't too hard. But then they've begun demanding a PhD degree in order to teach, but I wasn't in the mood to spend time on that also, and I wasn't inclined either to do a sh*tjob like I saw from people around me in the department (let me just say that 90% of the theses I saw had lots of plagiarism and little original work). So I drew the line and quit.
Thanks and I'm in for the $6 game if I may :).