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Let’s say the job is trading derivatives, and the more data available, the better the trades. However, the data is never available until mid-day the day before

by bfung 4y ago

Let’s say the job is trading derivatives, and the more data available, the better the trades. However, the data is never available until mid-day the day before (it’s all news based). The deadline is next trading day. You have 16hrs to make the new model and data work. The upside is that you’d be compensated a percentage of the trades. Positive is good(if you’re good, make millions), negative you get nothing. Is 40hr a hard limit to work now? My point is if someone was paid high enough, they’d bust that 40hr limit easy. It’s not really a hard limit of any sort. There’s a price for it, that’s for sure.

scarface74 4y ago
The answer is still “no”. I make more than enough to meet my short term and long term wants and needs and I’m at about 90% of the compensation of an SDE 2 at BigTech at 49 years old. I asked in another reply would someone work for Twitter at twice their current compensation. Both of the replies were that wouldn’t. If I had an opportunity to make twice my current compensation but I had to give up my current lifestyle - working remotely, traveling six months a year, never being on call, doing the work I enjoy, I would say no without thinking twice.
pixelfarmer 4y ago
We are all human. There are limits to what we can do, defined by our biology, and there is no way around that, no cheat available. If you can trust the stuff coming from psychology, there are numbers like ~25h/week floating around for being the most efficient when focusing on one task for white collar work. Anything beyond that makes you less efficient, your rate of mistakes increases, and your "batteries" will get drained. You can compensate latter through physical exercise, but I remember reading a headline that even this goes only so far (and I agree, from personal experience). Plus, if you have to do that to stay afloat, shouldn't be the time be accounted as "work" as well? Thing is, it will damage you, and no amount of money can save your rear end from an early exit out of this world through the accumulated damages.

by bfung 4y ago

scarface74 4y ago

The answer is still “no”. I make more than enough to meet my short term and long term wants and needs and I’m at about 90% of the compensation of an SDE 2 at BigTech at 49 years old. I asked in another reply would someone work for Twitter at twice their current compensation. Both of the replies were that wouldn’t. If I had an opportunity to make twice my current compensation but I had to give up my current lifestyle - working remotely, traveling six months a year, never being on call, doing the work I enjoy, I would say no without thinking twice.

pixelfarmer 4y ago

We are all human. There are limits to what we can do, defined by our biology, and there is no way around that, no cheat available. If you can trust the stuff coming from psychology, there are numbers like ~25h/week floating around for being the most efficient when focusing on one task for white collar work. Anything beyond that makes you less efficient, your rate of mistakes increases, and your "batteries" will get drained. You can compensate latter through physical exercise, but I remember reading a headline that even this goes only so far (and I agree, from personal experience). Plus, if you have to do that to stay afloat, shouldn't be the time be accounted as "work" as well? Thing is, it will damage you, and no amount of money can save your rear end from an early exit out of this world through the accumulated damages.