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>Most tech workers could easily work fewer hours for less money in second-year cities or take months-long sabbaticals but choose to do the opposite. What unive
by Arizhel 10y ago
>Most tech workers could easily work fewer hours for less money in second-year cities or take months-long sabbaticals but choose to do the opposite.
What universe do you live in? In my universe, this is simply not true. No tech company is going to allow you to work, say, 30 hours a week for 75% of your salary, plus full health benefits. And taking a months-long sabbatical means you don't keep your job, and you have a hard time getting a new one because of a resume gap, which employers absolutely hate.
- aianus 10y agoYou obviously have to be in a field like software engineering where there's a shortage of employees and employers can't get too picky about things like that. I did it myself for years modulo the health insurance part (we have universal healthcare in my country).
- amag 10y agoI just negotiated the option to work 80%-100% (in ~5% intervals) at my own discretion. Basically I'm allowed to take up to one day/week off. I'm a software engineer working in tech.
- stuaxo 10y agoYou can negotiate all sorts of things when you join a company. Previously I've worked every 4th week off. These days I do contracts which provides some nice gaps if you don't try and line something up before the current one finished. It's been possible to take a year off - I was using that to work on my own projects, so that went on my c.v.
- robotresearcher 10y agoFor someone straight out of school, that's pretty much true. After a while, if your CV is strong enough, your universe gets more flexible.