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If you are so smart why don’t you have more free time to live your life? Is mostly the challenge I see to people in my circle of peers family and friends, regar

• herbst 5y ago
  This is where our whole society fails. Somehow the general plan is always more money and never less time. Once when everyone was getting their raise, my proposal was less hours for the same money. I got it, and subjectively I was just as productive as before but now had won a whole extra day for ME. For me it worked out to working less and less and eventually started to earn more and more because I had time to focus on things I am actually passionate about. That said I am lucky Switzerland even has the concept of working ex. 80%. In Austria it is usually either 'fulltime' or 'halftime' (which barely anyone can afford) My main point is that if you work less hours does not directly mean you produce less code. More concrete sometimes when I sit around and do nothing I find a way to reduce 8 hours coding to 1. And yes I realize that only works in some jobs
  • esarbe 5y ago
    Good choice! Working 80% means 50% more free time and 20% less pay. (If - as in your case - this comes with a raise, even better.) I'm pretty sure most people (at least around here on HN) could do with 20% less income and still get out more quality of life. Of course we always need to compare ourselves (and our positions and possessions) to other people in our peer group and money earned is just such a nice way to compare yourself to others. How else are you going to acquire all these nice status symbols that show how important you are? But we forget the price we pay for money.