"Keep doing 'It' but at our company" is not even slightly motivating.
That's true, but what about "Keep doing 'It' but at our company for half the hours and double the salary"?
Then you could take the extra time and money and work on your +1 and +2.
That's true, but what about "Keep doing 'It' but at our company for half the hours and double the salary"?
Then you could take the extra time and money and work on your +1 and +2.
"Keep doing what you're doing but half the hours and double the salary" is something I would be tempted by, but it would be with the idea that I'm focusing on something other than developing my career.
It would be tempting, even given the stake I just placed in the ground:[1] But 1. astronomically few companies will offer to double my comp at this late point in my career and 2. Nobody in tech offers part time work but with full benefits…I’d have to be a contractor and find clients and fund my own healthcare and retirement (yuck). It’s at best an theoretical exercise.
Consultant/Contractor might be the closest.
But it does help to inform people the right way to proceed if 800k in 20hrs a week is their goal :)
* Accountants doing company liquidations
* Trial lawyers
* Performance artists
Others I cannot think of. Pay rates over $1,000/hr are surprisingly common. Many of the recipients work fewer hours as a result
It does take a very specific additional skill set to build up a network of clients and have the patience for that to turn into something where you're regularly booked, but if money is the number one thing you want to optimize for, it's something you should investigate.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-04/jim-si...
> He started at age 40 with no experience:
> It took him a while—he launched his fund in 1978 and it didn’t really click until about 1990—but he absolutely achieved his dream of making money without doing anything.
And, he had lots of experience with math - he was insanely great at it. And then he took it and applied it.
Thales was an all around great philosopher though, known to be one of the "seven sages" of ancient Athens. Amongst other feats, he managed to measure the height of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh when nobody else at the time could.
Like doing programming problems is fun for a bit, but doing work that actually does something, even if it's simpler in complexity is more satisfying. IMO of course.
I think the recruiters could be pitching better if they went with, do 'it' here and think about what +1 could be and when you figure what that could be, pitch it to us. This of course assumes the organization sees IT as a value multiplier and not a cost center / plumbing job.
Even the same total comp and benefits but half the hours would be good. If I could do one week on and one week off or two weeks on and two weeks off that would be awesome.