Working at a university (Score 1)

Hi! No names, named, but I worked at HUGE university located in Palo Alto, Ca, which is considered one of the best in the country, for 5 months before I couldn't take it anymore. I am a web designer so his may be different for you, but here were my thoughts: 1)Pay sucks. 2) I had to PAY to park there. 3) bennifits were outstanding 4) people were very nice, for the most part, but nothing actually got done. 5) All good ideas to make things happen were roadblocked by politics, money (and this is a VERY proitable private university), and people who didn't know what was going on, and therefore were afraid of any type of change whatsoever. 6) The job I was hired to was in no way close to what I was actually tasked to do (manager of online services became database entry). 7) It's a good place to work if you never actually want to do anything and have no personal pride in what it is that you do. If you dig programming and like to think of and actually execute cool stuff, avoid a university like the plague. If you want to slack off and don;t really care, it is ideal (no judgement here, just warning you). I hope this helps!