Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I work at an 800 year old institution. I have been here for 20 years. My wife works here too.

Salary isn't great in global terms, but puts us within the top 20% national household incomes. Enough no not really care about money.

We work 35 hours per week, pretty flexible schedule, about half from home and have more vacation days than we know what to do with.

The work is a bit monotonous and the office politics terrible, to the point of giving us depressing "golden cage" feelings sometimes, but when we take a peek outside, it doesn't look better than what we have. So we'll probably stay for the next 20 years.




> 800 year old institution

> The work is a bit monotonous and the office politics terrible

> but when we take a peek outside, it doesn't look better than what we have. So we'll probably stay for the next 20 years.

Hello fellow university employee! :)


> 800 year old institution

is this a university?


The knights templar, perhaps?


Plot twist, the OP is >800 years old.


If OP is 4'2" tall and likes to eat frogs I might have a guess on where he works.


and works from inside a whale.


Perhaps a business part of the oldest profession


They don't exist anymore.

I was thinking of the Order of Malta but they are a bit older.


> They don't exist anymore.

IYKYK...


Well not in an official capacity.

No one's getting payslips with "Knights Templar" on them.


Those are 903 years old already.


Statistically, companies surviving that long are related to the food and/or accommodation industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies


I suppose those are the industries that have been relatively immune to disruption?


My guess was London-based bank.


A tech german brewery.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: