>> Now we use the term "culture," a lot.
We throw it around.
I've been at two public organizations and now I'm at the private organization/ I think
if you were to catch me asking this question
to myself two years ago I probably would've blown it off and said such a cliché question.
But as you get older I think it's important as your life also evolves and grows and expands,
you start to think about these things.
When you're 22 and you're 25, you don't really have a lot of baggage anchors,
whatever you want to call it that keep you footloose and fancy free.
When you're 35, 36 your priorities change.
You get married, you have kids, you have responsibilities, and you really need to know
that company is aligned with that type of mentality.
The culture of how they treat their people is directly correlated
to how they'll treat you, if you were to work for them.
If the people are happy, if the, you know, work is good it's not surprising for people
to leave willing to take a pay cut to work at a company where they'll be happy versus, you know,
get paid more, but be completely miserable.