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I'm a pretty avid believer of Murphy's principles. Your points above are definitely true, and I've been thinking hard about this myself for the past couple yea
by hnfong 4y ago
I'm a pretty avid believer of Murphy's principles.
Your points above are definitely true, and I've been thinking hard about this myself for the past couple years.
My conclusion? I'm probably gonna keep my $300k+ FAANG job until the recession is over. That gives me more savings to fall back on in case something bad happens. It's ridiculous to suggest that it's a good idea to quit your job (or reject a high paying job) at the time when industry-wide layoffs are happening.
If your point is just about broader social responsibility and not fueling monopolies, you might have a point. But dealing with uncertainties on a personal level? Your advice about being prepared to lose your job and make sure to have enough savings and investments to fall back onto sounds a lot more reasonable than your initial toxic advice for people to reject a high paying stable-ish job at large corp right when the future is becoming uncertain.
When one makes two points that contradict each other, do they have two points or none?
- advael 4y agoAs I have already explicitly clarified once in this reply chain, I am not talking about people who already have a job at one of these companies, or even people who already have gone through the interviewing process and have an offer in hand. I don't think it would even make sense for me to be talking about those situations in a thread that's talking about a possible hiring freeze, IE a decision within these companies to stop making new hires. I think it would be pretty foolish for an individual who already has a way to shore up their savings to give it up, and while sometimes making a foolish decision to take a principled stand on something can be admirable, I am not in the habit of demanding this of people