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> you will have a pretty hard time finding comparable work again Why is that? The web is full of remote job offers.
by kowdermeister 8y ago
> you will have a pretty hard time finding comparable work again
Why is that? The web is full of remote job offers.
- maskedSlacker 8y agoAnd full of people applying for them.
- kowdermeister 8y agoLike all other jobs?
- maskedSlacker 8y agoThere are a lot fewer people applying for jobs local to me than there applying to jobs that will let me work remote. By a factor of over 100.
- randycupertino 8y agoI have a friend whose employer let her be remote, so she and her husband moved to Austin and bought a gorgeous house, dependent on her bay area salary. 8 months go by, employer changed their mind, didn't want remote workers any more. Gave her the option to come back, she was pregnant and they liked their big house, so they said no, thinking she would have no problem finding remote work. 6 months later she's still unemployed, considering giving up her career and just being a stay at home mom. They'll sell their austin house and downsize. Point is: remote workers are always the first to get let go, and the income is not dependable.
- jhall1468 8y agoYour point is painted in awfully broad strokes given you have exactly one example of it.
- doyoulikeworms 8y agoI think it's fair to say that it's riskier to depend on a remote job than it is to depend on an on-site job. That really sucks for your friend, by the way.
- nunya213 8y agoIf she worked at a Bay Area tech company and cant find a decent tech job in Austin she was probably a shit engineer.
- ajmurmann 8y agoThe parent said at SF Bay Area pay. The easiest way to get that is start in Bay Area, do a great job and then move. Once you've moved and want a new remote job with that salary it's much harder.
- rabidrat 8y agoTry getting one :) Remote job listing also means that there is an entire world of competition out there, much of which makes less than half of SFBA dev wages.
- kowdermeister 8y agoJust quit my job and I'm on it. In Eastern Europe I don't need the full SF package, half sounds fantastic. I get that for US workers it might be looking for a different set of tradeoffs.