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The marginal cost of my time when I'm already making enough money is expensive as fuck.

by Stubb 7y ago

scarface74 7y ago
This entirely. For context, I’m not referring to SV software engineer salary just normal big city America. I know a guy who probably now makes a little more than I do on his main job, is my age, but has been saving and investing much more consistently. He’s always doing side gigs for $50 - $70/hour. Which is really nothing for a software engineer even in my city and much less than he would be making as a full time contractor. When an opportunity like that comes up for me to “make extra money”. I always turn them down even at much higher rates. Anything we can’t get with my relatively average salary and my wife working we don’t need. I enjoy my time way too much. I don’t think I would work a contract that paid the equivalent of twice my salary as a side job.
- ryandrake 7y ago
  I can relate to your friend more, honestly. $50-70/hr is not an elite high level professional salary, but it’s no joke, and much more than the $0/hr you'd otherwise make farting around on HN or watching Netflix. When you’re young and able, life is merely a race to turn time into money fast enough to allow you to survive long after you can no longer turn time into money. Every day I waste now may translate into a week of eating dog food after I can no longer work. Therefore, I generally want to maximize the dollar utility of my time, while I can. If I could guarantee that I’d drop dead as soon as I retired, maybe I’d stop and live a little now. But since I can’t (an don’t want to commit suicide when I run out of savings), well, an extra dollar is an extra dollar! “Money isn’t everything” -says someone with a lot of it.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    We are both in our 40s. Not exactly young.
smitty1e 7y ago
In the literal Jeff Bezos sense?

5 ms·

The marginal cost of my time when I'm already making enough money is expensive as fuck.

by Stubb 7y ago

The marginal cost of my time when I'm already making enough money is expensive as fuck.

scarface74 7y ago
This entirely. For context, I’m not referring to SV software engineer salary just normal big city America. I know a guy who probably now makes a little more than I do on his main job, is my age, but has been saving and investing much more consistently. He’s always doing side gigs for $50 - $70/hour. Which is really nothing for a software engineer even in my city and much less than he would be making as a full time contractor. When an opportunity like that comes up for me to “make extra money”. I always turn them down even at much higher rates. Anything we can’t get with my relatively average salary and my wife working we don’t need. I enjoy my time way too much. I don’t think I would work a contract that paid the equivalent of twice my salary as a side job.
- ryandrake 7y ago
  I can relate to your friend more, honestly. $50-70/hr is not an elite high level professional salary, but it’s no joke, and much more than the $0/hr you'd otherwise make farting around on HN or watching Netflix. When you’re young and able, life is merely a race to turn time into money fast enough to allow you to survive long after you can no longer turn time into money. Every day I waste now may translate into a week of eating dog food after I can no longer work. Therefore, I generally want to maximize the dollar utility of my time, while I can. If I could guarantee that I’d drop dead as soon as I retired, maybe I’d stop and live a little now. But since I can’t (an don’t want to commit suicide when I run out of savings), well, an extra dollar is an extra dollar! “Money isn’t everything” -says someone with a lot of it.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    We are both in our 40s. Not exactly young.
smitty1e 7y ago
In the literal Jeff Bezos sense?