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He actually cared about making money. (I'm amazed at how many bosses care about everything except making money, even at hedge funds.) He gave me total autonomy

• tehlike 8y ago
  My manager gave me that autonomy too, but he cares less about making money - which is surprisingly common.
• lozaning 8y ago
  I had a sales job like this for a while at a small VAR. We were an HP, Netapp, cisco, etc Gold partner, but my boss didnt care if I sold any of that, only that I generated enough profit to cover my base salary through literally any means. Ended up writing my own software to interact with the Amazon Marketplace sellers API and all our distributors nightly inventory data and just drop ship stuff in mass, and send a couple product I had the best pricing on to Amazon for FBA. I got it down to maybe an hour of real work a week and was crushing my numbers. After a year or so of that I got bored and jumped shipped though because I didnt see any additional personal growth to be had at the company.
  • sleepychu 8y ago
    What did you do with the rest of your time?
    • lozaning 8y ago
      A lot of refactoring my code for the sake of refactoring, adding in more error handling and edge case protection, trying to make it only 30 minutes of work instead of an hour the next week, and a fair bit of HN and reddit and youtube. The skills I taught myself in doing that largely lead to the position I've got now.
• nathan_f77 8y ago
  That sounds amazing. Did you have an equity stake in the projects, or was it just for an hourly rate/salary?