Pros
To draw a paycheck. Beyond that, no clear or compelling reasons.
Kontras
Let me count the ways. The organization is a case study in ineptness. If Enron is the poster child for illegal activity, Conseco is one for boneheaded decision-making. Going back to the purchase of Green Tree (aka the beginning of the end), the company has pissed away more money than possibly any other in the history of American commerce. What the dot com bust was to internet companies, Conseco is to classic corporate America. Ousting Steven Hilbert (architect of the absolute most mind-boggling, dysfunctional, cost-ineffective program the world has even known in the form of borrowing corporate dollars to purchase corporate stock; holy "Sarbanes-Oxley" Batman!) was arguably the best and worst moves performed. The constant turnover of senior managers, middle managers, and especially rank-and-file made working there even more disturbing and depressing than imaginable.