Because people need to eat and, maybe, somewhere to stay when they're not working. Just maybe.

Because:

1. I didn't really have the energy to job hunt while working 40 hours.
2. I thought things would get better. I thought I was getting better at dealing with things.
3. I just kind of fell into doing IT support and didn't have the education, training, connections, or experience to do much else.
4. I wanted to have more money in savings so I could move out of my parents house.
5. When I quit the job prior to that, I was unemployed for 6 months and it was one of the lowest points of my life, so I refused to quit again.

I ended up getting fired, spent the better part of 6 years unemployed after that (see point 3), now I work part time in food service so I only occasionally hate my job, I still live with my parents, I try not to hold illusions about #2 anymore, and #1 is still true but with less hours worked.

Because I'm a masochist and I refuse to be forced out by incompetence.

After awhile it's cozy y'know?

The roar of heavy machinery whirring away for 9+ hours a day, pulsing at thousands of RPM, the calm of solving puzzles in the chaos... it's peaceful.

The news folks always ask me how I keep my sanity in all the noise and chaos, and it always makes me laugh. It takes a special kind of crazy to do my job for as long as I have and it shows.

Every day loading and unloading trucks with 60 other forklifts all blasting around on a dock with only 130 doors while going 8mph. It rains, you get wet. It snows, you plow through it. It's 100F outside, it's 110F on the dock and 120F in the trailers. The sun rises, you get to watch it rise over the snowy mountains. The sun sets, you get to watch it over the water.

It's not for everyone, but damn can it be right for the right kinda of people.

Well I keep quitting and it hasn't been great for me lately.

Weirdly yes. I'm considering going back to my previous place of work because somehow, even though it was just differently bad, I miss it.

It was the same when I left the military.

because other places aren't hiring at a similar salary and benefits

This is printed out and tapped to the wall in my workplace lol