I'm going to start looking for a new job

The non-profit I work for has two large fundraisers every year; one of them is a golf tournament, which we held this past Thursday. We ended up netting more than $8k. My boss' enthusiastic comment: "Now I can get new flooring throughout the building and French doors for the boardroom!"

I was almost speechless, but managed to squeak out, "How about getting us a raise?" - I couldn't bring myself to say anything about wanting benefits because her son was in her office and even mentioning the raise didn't seem 100% appropriate, but I couldn't help myself.

"Oh, we'll definitely get a raise," was her reply.

Well, that's all fine and good, but I'm 46 and not one step closer to getting healh insurance or a 403k than I was five years ago, when I started working for them, and I've had enough.

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