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yeah i work currently as contractor around 30 hours per month from home for Chinese company without any commuting anytime i want to cover expenses of my family

yeah i work currently as contractor around 30 hours per month from home for Chinese company without any commuting anytime i want to cover expenses of my family on the other hand i could work 160-170 hours per month for local EU employer and get like double salary (a bit more with bigger retirement savings and paid vacation) somehow i am not rushing to get stable job and get employed locally to work five times more plus wasted time on commuting (so make it six times more hours wasted on work) to earn double salary

scarecrowbob 8y ago
Same-ish, but I'm in rural Texas. I work 30 hours a week for a US firm, working remote and finishing up raising my kid. I could probably multiply my income by 1.5, but I'd have to work 15 hours a week more and come into an office. I've had several interviews with people but no one seems to understand how much they would actually have to pay me to come into an office because they are used to discounting the time spent commuting as if weren't time they should pay for; they think I am crazy for calculating that as time for which I should be compensated.
- Markoff 8y ago
  similar, though i said 30 hours per month, not per week also i have two small children, nobody will pay me for priceless time away from them now they are both under 3, i feel sad for people seeing their children in evenings or just weekends
  - scarecrowbob 8y ago
    Yeah, I caught that... I haven't figured out how to get the hours down to that, but I am working on it. Mostly I just end up doing stuff like visiting my parents while I'm at "work". I have a 17 year old and basically have ended up remote working just to be around him and his sister. For me, that's definitely a thing that I feel like was a great deal for both our lives. Also, now I'm just turning 40 and he's graduating high school, I've started traveling and working that that's also quite fulfilling. I feel sad for those folks to- it's not a judgment thing, I just know how much I got from being around my kids and how much I personally would have lost out on.

scarecrowbob 8y ago

Same-ish, but I'm in rural Texas. I work 30 hours a week for a US firm, working remote and finishing up raising my kid. I could probably multiply my income by 1.5, but I'd have to work 15 hours a week more and come into an office. I've had several interviews with people but no one seems to understand how much they would actually have to pay me to come into an office because they are used to discounting the time spent commuting as if weren't time they should pay for; they think I am crazy for calculating that as time for which I should be compensated.

Markoff 8y ago
similar, though i said 30 hours per month, not per week also i have two small children, nobody will pay me for priceless time away from them now they are both under 3, i feel sad for people seeing their children in evenings or just weekends
- scarecrowbob 8y ago
  Yeah, I caught that... I haven't figured out how to get the hours down to that, but I am working on it. Mostly I just end up doing stuff like visiting my parents while I'm at "work". I have a 17 year old and basically have ended up remote working just to be around him and his sister. For me, that's definitely a thing that I feel like was a great deal for both our lives. Also, now I'm just turning 40 and he's graduating high school, I've started traveling and working that that's also quite fulfilling. I feel sad for those folks to- it's not a judgment thing, I just know how much I got from being around my kids and how much I personally would have lost out on.