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No. I'd rather work 6 days a week for >120% salary. I like my work. I contribute to society by working - that's why I get paid, my work is worth something. Giv
by ctdonath 5y ago
No. I'd rather work 6 days a week for >120% salary.
I like my work. I contribute to society by working - that's why I get paid, my work is worth something. Given more $, I can better provide for family (which includes freeing wife to focus 100% on family care & opportunities, rather than 20%).
To really make it work, keep the "normal" work at 5 days @ 100%, then another proportionally-paid day to work on deep technical debt: there is much in any codebase which really should be fixed/improved, but is too obtuse/obscure to convince management it needs time doing in place of any of other numerous tasks. Result is more than 20% increase in productivity, by warding off defects and friction.
Employer might want to review that option further in light of me spending that additional time anyway working a secondary job: better I spend more time (and get more $) focusing on extended work on same project, than being temporally & mentally unavailable.
Reducing my time & salary by 20% as suggested would mean wife would have to take on a full-time job, dropping her family time massively in return for little more than making up for my salary drop. I'd rather sacrifice a few of my own hours per week to better support family's time together.