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If you can't cut your expenses, getting better at negotiation will help you with both parts. Given how much Google and the like pay at the top tier, and the ava
by itamarst 8y ago
If you can't cut your expenses, getting better at negotiation will help you with both parts. Given how much Google and the like pay at the top tier, and the availability of remote work across geographic zones, it's highly unlikely you're at peak pay for your experience level.
So you can:
1. First, get a higher salary.
2. Then, go down to 4 days and take the 20% cut.
Example: when you get a job offer, merely by saying "can you do better?" you can quite often get a 10% higher offer, because usually initial offer is at the bottom of the pay range.
- xondono 8y agoThe main problem here is that I went for hardware engineering, which almost no one is willing to hire as remote work. I also happen to live in spain, comparing with other friends working in the same sector, I’m likely above top 10% in salary/age ratio. Sadly in this country, at age 30 this is 40k€/y that after taxes becomes 29,700€. Rent alone takes more than a third of that, I take ~3500€ directly for savings, and I need to stretch the rest to cover the rest of my costs, including stuff like medical insurance, gas, etc... I know this is partly my chosing and the first comment that will come to a lot of people is “move”, but I can’t do it without heavily disrupting my girlfriend’s career (she’s still finishing her studies and working part time). Our hope right now is that her current job might give her the option to (legally) move to the US.
- itamarst 8y agoIt's definitely harder in some fields, yes—mostly I'm talking about programmers, who have an easier time. That being said, I'm told negotiation can still help even for hardware people (but I don't have personal experience with how that works).