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I'm really curious what could demand $10k per day :) not at all because I don't believe it, but because that sounds very very nice... Vaguely speaking, the imp

I'm really curious what could demand $10k per day :) not at all because I don't believe it, but because that sounds very very nice... Vaguely speaking, the impression I get is maybe you were doing senior-level "emergency fix the unfixable" type work, like recovering a petabyte-sized Oracle database that had chewed itself, or PMing an 11th-hour restructure of a 50% finished 10M-LOC project due in 4 hours. (I recall an uncitable story I read/heard somewhere about a bank that nearly missed a deadline and had 1000 developers working simultaneously to get the work done at the last minute) (I can't figure out/guess what the lower-rate work might have been.)

stretchwithme 8y ago
Probably advising senior executives.
- ghaff 8y ago
  That’s correct. Product strategy and messaging from a team that also has a significant technical background. Also giving industry landscape/perspectives at customer and sales events. To parent’s point, very specialized and experienced engineering consultants can make a lot. Even something like an expert witness report can be $4-5K per day. But to repeat these tend to be gigs where this sort of click is running for a very small portion on 200 days per year. It’s not at all like regular contract work.