Here's a perspective from a SWE (15+ YoE) from a third world country about this whole WFH thing. I have a Linkedin profile, connections to SWEs that I have pre

Here's a perspective from a SWE (15+ YoE) from a third world country about this whole WFH thing. I have a Linkedin profile, connections to SWEs that I have previously worked with in my country and who have since moved to the US/EU. Plenty of those connections posted gushing words about our time together in the same engineering team on the recommendations section of my Linkedin profile. I have a huge Nota bene at the top of my profile telling recruiters that I'm only interested in fully remote positions and that I'm not interested in leaving my country no matter what. I work for a telecom company here and over the years I have worked with all sorts of stacks/technologies ranging from reverse engineering, embedded C, crypto.. and even more recently rewriting a (small) production tool from C++ to Rust. My salary over the last 10 years has gotten to an impressive ~ $40_000 per annum, and that's before taxes. It's a safe/stable job and I have family to take care of that I can not leave, so the prospect of landing a fully remote job writing js for a mouth watering TC of $200_000+ makes me salivate. But every advertized "fully remote" job out there comes with a huge asterisk: "it's fully remote but you have to be in a country where our company has offices, or you'll have to settle for being a contractor getting paid half that and dealing with taxes in your country and time zones that ungodly, or better yet, get paid in stable shitcoins!". So whenever I see the people with mouth watering TCs rewriting the same crappy code bases in $new_hyped_js_framework on HN/Reddit complain about hybrid work schedules or fully remote but once in 6 months you have to hop on a flight to be at the bi-annual work barbecue... I wonder when a truly full remote positions will be available, because there are a lot of us out there with incredible skills/YoE working for peanuts because we can't leave our disabled loved ones behind to be in the US/EU... or when a non-shitty-LLM will be good enough to turn english sentences into viable business logic. Now, _that_ will make me too appreciate my shitty salary instead of being envious of you guys' TCs.