Cool.
Now start offering more part time roles.
Now start offering more part time roles.
An article from 2019: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/720122267
> GARCIA: The occupation with the single biggest part-time penalty is web developer. Wages for part-time web developers are 49.5% less than wages for full-time web developers. And that is our PLANET MONEY indicator - part-time web developers make only about half as much per hour as full-time web developers.
So if a FTE is making $100/h and working 40h/w, a part time developer is making $50/h and working 20h/w... though those are just numbers that I made up. They will vary.
The issue for the organization is that as a developer, part time makes a complete hash of the maker schedule when combined with actually having meetings.
I've been able to get my managers to try to schedule meetings clustered together so that I have chunks of time where I can work each day. But if I was part time - either fewer days per week or fewer hours per day, that would in turn translate to smaller maker time blocks or maker time blocks that were separated from each other by more than a day.
I see this with part time interns - where the ones work work each day are much more efficient at what they're doing than the ones that come in twice a week and have to get back into the grove of what they were working on and that takes a significant part of the time of when they get back in for that day.
The big leap is you have to give up the perceived stability of your monthly paycheck. You are unemployed and unpaid by default. The easiest way to deal with this is to keep 6-12 months’ worth of living expenses in cash. You can tune your risk this way; less cash, more risk.
- Set your own hours.
- Four day work weeks.
- Part time roles.
- Work for both FANGMA and a startup [1]
- Sabbaticals.
[1] (Startup could be flexible so there's no overlap in meetings/oncall. Also makes it super easy to switch jobs while still getting paid from one of the two roles.)
Absolutely incredible.
Apparently other people complain that he doesn't really do anything the vast majority of the time, and doesn't do anything coworkers ask them to do that's part of the job description for other salespeople, and the execs won't do anything about it (and apparently are very scared of him leaving since they think he'll take all those clients with him).
...which I agree with the execs not doing anything, by the way. That revenue is way more important than making sure that employee is "putting in a solid 8 hour work day" or "being a team player".
Software engineers get some slack from the business but not that much slack. If I could have a few short conversations a year with the computer and it spat out software that generated millions in revenue I absolutely would, but no, I have to do the research and design and development to make sure the software does what it needs to do. And then it helps generate millions of dollars, of which I get a comparatively tiny fraction compared to what I bet that salesperson gets.
Most of us are still getting a raw deal compared to salespeople (well, effective salespeople, at least).
Supply and demand is the only force here, software engineers aren’t special.
I've mentioned part time roles in another comment and really don't see that being feasible.
Working for two companies simultaneously gets into some tricky IP and non-compete situations (that are even enforceable in California - see Techno Lite, Inc. v. Emcod, LLC).
I’m currently in a weird position. My job pays for a full time salary but with less than part time work.
I’m not sure if I should pick up another full time job with full time work or a part time job with part time work.
I can easily envision myself working part time on a react application or creating a spring app. Not exactly ground breaking stuff here.
Brooks' law has exponentially increased the amount of syncing required and the explosion of open source and SaaSes has shrunk the amount of coding required.