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As the author states in the article, there is a limitation of "you start on Monday". This rules out the billionaire philanthropist, POTUS, and batman. What is
by nik_0_0 11y ago
As the author states in the article, there is a limitation of "you start on Monday". This rules out the billionaire philanthropist, POTUS, and batman.
What is your dream job given your skills, your resources and ability, that you could operate at within a week.
- learc83 11y agoAnd yet he says you can set your own salary. I'm pretty sure I could operate just fine on monday as a billionaire philanthropist given that I get to set my own salary. Setting aside hyperbole, I can think of several practical things I'd rather do than what I'm doing now, but I don't do them because they don't pay well, and I enjoy my current profession well enough. If I could set my own salary, I'd like to run a barbecue restaurant, write for a newspaper, make computer games, or build robots. However, none of those pay well enough (or I lack the credentials--and time to get the credentials--to make them pay well enough), so they are relegated to hobbies.
- wallyhs 11y agoThe salary isn't the point: > I immediately exclude discussion of company, title, and salary, because these are the things people think they want but can't really affect my decision. > So by stating that these three things, company, title, and salary, are already taken care of, it frees candidates to think about what really matters to them.
- learc83 11y agoSalary matters in that it allows you to pick jobs that aren't ordinarily practical. Most people have something else they would be doing if salary weren't a constraint. So the honest answer isn't likely to be a job like the one the candidate is interviewing for, but most people will be dishonest and say that the job they are applying for is their dream job because that's what they think the interviewer wants.
- sheepmullet 11y ago> The salary isn't the point Except it is. I earn 3x more as an enterprise developer than I could as a games developer and work significantly fewer hours. The truth is spending time with my family, and having the money to support them, is more important than having my "ideal" job.
- wingerlang 11y agoHE specifically says you can NOT set the salary. > It's at your ideal company with your ideal job title and salary. This means that your title/company/salary is already set in the question.
- learc83 11y agoNo, he just says you don't discuss it. It's my ideal salary. Who else get's to decide what my ideal salary is other than me?
- wingerlang 11y agoI guess you're right. But I also think you're missing the point. The point is to focus on the work itself, not the surrounding information.