Are you happy in your job?

I’m pretty happy in my current employment, but I’ve always made a habit of seeing who’s hiring in the marketing and PR fields in the Utah market. Am I looking? No. But, I like to see what kind of work people are doing, and I occasionally post the jobs on my blog for others to see if they are looking for work.

The Funny thing is
The funny thing is, there are four or five jobs I see consistently in “help wanted” areas. They show up for a week, and then they’re gone for three or four months only to show up again. And it leaves me wondering . . .
1) Are these companies having a hard time finding qualified marketing people?
2) Are they looking for more experience than they are willing to pay for?
3) Is the workplace so terrible that people just can’t stand it, so they are constantly leaving?
4) Is the job market good enough that people are finding much better offers?
5) Is the job itself just so bad that a few months is all somebody can stand?
6) Are they looking for the equivilent of numerous marketing expertises in one person? (You know, the graphic design, web designer, internet marketing, PR person with 8 years of experience and expertise in every field person . . . by the way it pays $9 an hour kind of job).

I could name the companies and positions off the top of my head, and they aren’t jobs where you hand out Pizza Hut fliers or sell Cutco knives. Some of these companies are pretty well known. Others not so much, but they are big-time businesses in their industry. The thing that I’ve noticed happening in my own head is that I say “I would never want to work there.” No way.

What’s the problem? Is anyone else seeing this in their industry? Thoughts?