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Glad you've found a place that doesn't make you want to tear your hair out. That's rare these days.
I tear my hair out daily but over the things worth fixing and the processes inhibiting that. Removing the profit motive does so much for making workplaces collaborative toward those common goals. For all the pay cut you take in the public sector it feels human.
edit: like our conflicts today were the bureaucratic obstacles to making a demonstration garden based around handicap accessibility, but we both agree about handicap accessibility and would love to make our spaces as inclusive as possible. The most radical things the Americans with Disabilities Act lawyers suggest are the ones we'll both happily incorporate and expand on. That's Star Trek shit.
It really does make a huge difference. I think I've worked in exactly one place like that, and it was great. So much easier to just get shit done.
Especially with the natural sciences, I feel like a demon working for private companies. I'm poisoning everyone around that customer to make them feel some pathological need for control, enclosing the commons for a company to greenwash their destruction, or making some beautiful green space I can't visit the moment I get off work. When I take my dog to the parks I tend, I'm picking weeds because I'm proud of the things that get to enrich my community. That's the whole thing my degree avoided teaching.