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> Cool stuff don’t pay bills. I'm very much on board with this. I put stability and money on about the same pedestal and is why I still work where I do after
by techsupporter 5y ago
> Cool stuff don’t pay bills.
I'm very much on board with this. I put stability and money on about the same pedestal and is why I still work where I do after many years for a salary that is fantastic for 90% of the country but is "merely average" for Seattle.
Working for a rock solid medium-sized that's been in existence for a hundred years and funded by a stable endowment and a pile of public service contracts and has never had a layoff is more interesting to me than knowing that the odds of me still having a job in the 2030s, if I still want it, is well above 90%.
- robotresearcher 5y agoHow are the long term employment prospects for today’s SpaceX engineers?
- ghaff 5y agoProbably the same cyclical prospects that aerospace engineers have historically had.
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- ihateolives 5y ago> a stable endowment and a pile of public service contracts and has never had a layoff is more interesting to me than knowing that the odds of me still having a job in the 2030s, if I still want it, is well above 90% How do you know you're still around by 2030? I've had 3 people from my close circle die off in the past 6 months. One of them my age, left behind a spouse and two kids. That really changed my perspective. If I'm gonna spend most of my waking hours labouring away in a cubicle away from home then I at least want it to be meaningful. I'm not going just to tick-tock my life away doing meaningless shit for boatload of money that I may or may not get to use eventually.
- democracy 5y agoSo keep the paycheck and try to take it easy - like the Office Space guy. You still can deliver value to the company if you work 1-2 hours a day (remotely, of course)