cush

The op is complaining about having a cush job.

A certain amount of back-stabbing is not unheard of when jockeying for some of the real cush positions.

Outside of this salary nonsense it's an overall good place to work though and a pretty cush job.

WTI futures for instance are typically not held to delivery, though you can deliver it into Cush if you have tankage.

Once there is traction, the VCs and insiders bring in friends for cush Director/VC posts.

What will this idiot do when the taxpayers revolt and he loses his cush job?

Poor generals who can't do anything other than military need these cush jobs or else they'd be out on the streets.

This is the problem with making government jobs unionized or making them overly-cush jobs.

Or somehow unexpectedly landed a nice and cush job at said energy company.

Maybe at software companies, but if you're looking for corporate IT jobs (which can be pretty cush, referring back to the thread about that), a degree or sometimes even a masters is a requirement.

I've done a couple of those, and there's no such thing as a cush job.

I worked at Gap for six weeks (everything but the systems are pretty cush).

Everyone involved gets cush editor-in-chief jobs at "liberal" magazines, or professorships at quarter-million dollar J-schools.

I agree even strongly with what you just said: "if you'll violate your principles for a cush job, they aren't really principles you have." The reality is, I don't think people really understand what a deeply held principle is.

“Nimrod” was, to my knowledge, a biblical reference: Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth.

I personally know several American-born students from Caltech who've taken post-docs in France and Germany, and some European-born ones who took very cush faculty offers in Singapore when nothing good turned up in the "west".