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haha, yeah, I've never seen anyone so unproductive as a Japanese or Chinese engineer putting in 72 hours a week I think this whole system of paying people an h
by VRay 7y ago
haha, yeah, I've never seen anyone so unproductive as a Japanese or Chinese engineer putting in 72 hours a week
I think this whole system of paying people an hourly wage or a salary is toxic when it comes to knowledge work. I'm pretty confident that today I could do something in a day that would have taken me a month when I started out 10 years ago. (And I can do stuff that would have been inconceivable when I was at the college student/new hire level) But I'm only making about 2-3x as much as a new hire at my current company.
I wish the whole system were a lot more freeform and mercenary.. I'd love to roll in and spend a few months building some GPU firmware or debugging camera latency issues, collect $100k at the end, and then spend a few months backpacking or whatever.
I guess that only a tiny fraction of the people I've met would be OK with that sort of existence, though..
- __s 7y agoSounds like too many places are willing to pay young developers too much. Why pay a third what they pay you for an order of magnitude less value?
- alexgmcm 7y agoAre they paying young devs too much or OP too little?
- rightbyte 7y agoWouldn't work sharing among collegues be quite toxic? Who would pick the need to be done-paperwork or whatever time consuming less glamourus tasks when the collegues do the glamourus quicker tasks and go home.
- komali2 7y agoI've met people that are perfectly content doing mundane tasks for a set amount of time, then going home to watch TV or whatever. It's unlikely to find them on this site though...
- VRay 7y agoIf I pulled up the bounty board and had the choice between "Dig latrines for 20 hours: $3,000" and "Fire-breathing dragon terrorizing village, scales impervious to arrows: $80,000" I could go either way myself "Maybe I'll take a break on the ultra-rare deadlock and go bang out some python test scripts for a few days.."