[nusl]

Par for the course, maybe, but definitely not “not so bad.” This sort of thing really messes with a person. If this doesn’t sound that bad to you, I genuinely pity you for having to deal with what you consider to be worse, because being shunted around without clear perspective or direction, and a constantly moving platform, is pretty shit and really messes up your ability to work effectively.

Who has time or energy to play the games you describe as mitigations anyway?

Also, money means different things to different people. If I had to work four years for a retirement amount I would.

I don’t feel that your comment adds much other than “other people have it worse,” which isn’t a useful contribution and misses the point.