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> if I start rejecting projects they will find someone else ... Which you're basing on: > it doesn't work that easily that I can just limit how much work I ta

> if I start rejecting projects they will find someone else ... Which you're basing on: > it doesn't work that easily that I can just limit how much work I take without repercussions (it already happened in past, but not because of rejecting reason) If it's true that they won't accept anything less than 12 hour days with zero down time, then you're better off working elsewhere.

Markoff 7y ago
it's not 12 hours day, on bad day (usually monday and friday) is 8-10 hours of actual work, on good days (which are very rare recently) 3-4 hours, but usually I work between 5-7 hours (with some gaps between) plus I have free weekends most of the time and maybe 10 days of Chinese holidays spread over year If I worked as full time employee here in Europe, I would spend 9-10 hours in work each day including commuting but with lot of spare time just sitting/resting in work plus 5 weeks of paid vacation, but also my salary would be like 20-30% of what I have as self employed working from home, nobody can offer me what I have in this company, so I wanna bank on this while it's available, because I'm sure it won't last forever (though I had this attitude already years ago and I'm still doing it with more work) my main (if not only) issue is lack of continous vacation, I was just asking in OP how to justify taking it under these circumstances, if you are willing to spend let's say 4000USD on short vacation and another 2-3000USD on lost income, if I didn't work in hotel room. I just can't justify completely stop working even without worrying to be replaced
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- esotericn 7y ago
  4000 USD is a fairly lavish holiday. I consider myself fairly well off and that's roughly what I'd spend in two months.
- nimblegorilla 7y ago
  I've had a few vacations turn into work trips. It's really easy (at least for me) to work a lot in the morning and spend the late afternoon at the beach, park, or museum. If all you need is a laptop and internet then there's nothing stopping you from an entire month at a vacation destination.
- alehander42 7y ago
  But is it really a vacation, if you MUST work in the hotel room often? (not just rarely) Losing pay isn't so important at all, if you have enough for your family, and your pay shouldn't depend on taking merely 20-30 days vacation an year .. with your skills you can find very well paid european remote jobs with much better vacation

Markoff 7y ago

it's not 12 hours day, on bad day (usually monday and friday) is 8-10 hours of actual work, on good days (which are very rare recently) 3-4 hours, but usually I work between 5-7 hours (with some gaps between) plus I have free weekends most of the time and maybe 10 days of Chinese holidays spread over year If I worked as full time employee here in Europe, I would spend 9-10 hours in work each day including commuting but with lot of spare time just sitting/resting in work plus 5 weeks of paid vacation, but also my salary would be like 20-30% of what I have as self employed working from home, nobody can offer me what I have in this company, so I wanna bank on this while it's available, because I'm sure it won't last forever (though I had this attitude already years ago and I'm still doing it with more work) my main (if not only) issue is lack of continous vacation, I was just asking in OP how to justify taking it under these circumstances, if you are willing to spend let's say 4000USD on short vacation and another 2-3000USD on lost income, if I didn't work in hotel room. I just can't justify completely stop working even without worrying to be replaced

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esotericn 7y ago
4000 USD is a fairly lavish holiday. I consider myself fairly well off and that's roughly what I'd spend in two months.
nimblegorilla 7y ago
I've had a few vacations turn into work trips. It's really easy (at least for me) to work a lot in the morning and spend the late afternoon at the beach, park, or museum. If all you need is a laptop and internet then there's nothing stopping you from an entire month at a vacation destination.
alehander42 7y ago
But is it really a vacation, if you MUST work in the hotel room often? (not just rarely) Losing pay isn't so important at all, if you have enough for your family, and your pay shouldn't depend on taking merely 20-30 days vacation an year .. with your skills you can find very well paid european remote jobs with much better vacation