Originally Posted by emersonbiguns

I have no idea what everyone's motivations are and I won't pretend that I do.

My situation was, in 1997, I couldn't make a living at a regional and the job sort of fell in my lap. I enjoyed it and tried very hard for many years to contribute, change things for the better and make a difference. It became very obvious towards the end that organization wasn't really interested in anything other than being a sycophant to its BP masters. That is why the exodus occurred over the last five years or so.