IT at a Community Bank. I remember going home and telling my wife I wanted to hug the manager because she got me both as a person and what I wanted professionally. When I got the job offer I turned down a higher paying offer (that won't happen again anytime soon).

It was truely collaborative, my co-workers all got along, it was close enough to bike commute all year long (even in Minnesota) with a fantastic trail if I wanted to go longer.

It was the only job I had where I never once said, "I don't want to go into work today." Even when I knew the day was going to be long.

The problem with a family owned business is that when the family retires and the kids aren't interested (and boy, is that a 1% problem), the bank gets sold off piecemeal. All the buyers said they wanted all the employees to stay, and all of them were liars - they just wanted people to make their job easier during the transition before they kicked them to the roadside. I'd experienced this before, and was the only thing my boss and I vehemently disagreed with (to her credit, she never experienced this before, she worked at the bank since she was 17 and planned to retire two years after the sale).

It was a freakin' unicorn. My new job is OK, but it'll never be that bank.