I'd work from a toilet stall for a Google L6 comp band
I doubt any Googlers actually care about this stuff
I doubt any Googlers actually care about this stuff
It is definitely possible to get a fat check and work on interesting problems at Google. But you need to be really picky with what team you work for (obviously, not so easy ATM).
People are different.
One may suggest to move cities, but my community is my friends in the city I live in. One may suggest getting new friends in a new city, but that's a tough and long process - friendships can take years to build, especially if I'm isolated and working from home.
I could move further out of the city, but now I'm commuting 1hr+ one-way to see my friends every day. The very commute that WFH was trying to get rid of.
Even when I was single, I had friends all across the Atlanta metro area and we still ended up having to drive an hour to see each other.
But it’s been a long time since I was single, and I will admit in my single days, work and my social life was intermixed so heavily that we would have all (male and female) ended up in HR today.
“We are in this together” so to speak.
It’s funny how our brains do so many things for us without us being aware of them.
Now, the more people return, the more hectic and loud it will be which I detest.
It’s lost in me why so many nerds don’t understand that not everyone wants to be wrapped up in their fortress of solitude, peeping out of a Zoom window.
For anyone who's curious, OSHA does require a minimum number of toilets per male or female employee (https://www.osha.gov/restrooms-sanitation), and the law doesn't permit co-ed restrooms unless the stall dividers and doors go from floor to ceiling. Office buildings are generally designed around a 50/50 male/female ratio, and when the ratio gets way off, you can wind up not having enough restrooms for one or the other, despite being well within the total design occupancy limit.
The only reason I gave a recruiter the time of day at the BigTech company I ended up working at is when she suggested I do a pivot into the cloud consulting department (cloud app dev implementations) and said the position was remote.
But I would go back to my old comp way before I would be willing to ever be in an office again.
I was making “enough” in 2020. Everything else was just gravy.
I had my house built in 2016 in “the good school system” in the northern burbs of Atlanta for $335K. It was 3200 square feet 5/3-1/2.
There is a reason I didn’t entertain the recruiter until she suggested a permanently remote role.
For maybe a quarter, until your brain adapts. Once you have your needs met, there's diminishing returns. You can still be miserable while getting a fat check.
This tends to be an indicator of age, rather than wisdom.
When you're young, you value money more than time.
When you're old, you value time more than money.