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No. It is unprofessional to expect 'How much' to be the only consideration.
by subway 10y ago
No. It is unprofessional to expect 'How much' to be the only consideration.
- vinceguidry 10y agoI don't understand your logic here. Cash is the driver of business.
- subway 10y agoValue is the driver of business. Cash is a vehicle for value, but is often valued far less than other vehicles.
- brennen 10y agoBusiness, however, makes a pretty lousy driver of life.
- yarrel 10y agoHow much were you paid to post that? And if you were in a coma for three days, how much would I have to pay you to leave the coma and work on fixing a bug for that time instead?
- vinceguidry 10y agoI don't post on HN as a part of my business. If I did, then you better believe I would have already worked out how much my time spent on HN is worth to it. There is life outside of business. But inside business, cash rules.
- duiker101 10y agobut for someone that does this for passion it is not business. So your cash becomes coloured paper.
- jrochkind1 10y agoWikipedia says a "A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested objective counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain" Wikipedia says of "professional ethics", > Some professional organizations may define their ethical approach in terms of a number of discrete components.[5] Typically these include: > Honesty > Integrity > Transparency > Accountability > Confidentiality > Objectivity > Respectfulness > Obedience to the law > Loyalty Your idea that the main point of professional ethics is to require someone to take a job if their client is paying enough money... is a fairly novel one. Yes, a professional by definition gets paid for your work. However, the whole point of professional ethics is generally a professional's ethical responsibilities to consider things _other_ than money. That's the ethics part. I'm pretty sure you won't find your idea in any ethics course in any school or any ethics code in any profession. It's just not a thing.