re: Do you work for a big corporation?

Just joined one. What I find is there is more opportunity. Also depends on your company's culture. Mine is great, and I am already taking advantage of those opportunities. Wife is working for one of the largest as well (another company).

We both, at one point in time, worked for a small local company for years and it was a nightmare. All the things that would supposedly happen if we had worked for a large corp happened to us at the smaller company:

1) Minimal vacation time
2) Arbitrary losses of earned bonuses (literally on a whim)
3) No merit raises for years despite exceeding all goal for the job we were hired for
4) Other employees were let go for arbitrary reasons or because a terrible manager in another department didn't like them (very often NOT performance related)
5) Employees in one department (which was 90% of the company) expected to work on average 60-80 hour weeks while the other group worked minimal hours and often got 2-3x the bonuses.

I could go on and on. My large company has made it clear I won't experience any of the above....

Point being not all companies are the same. Don't fall for the stereotype but if you see something alarming, leave.