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Why would someone pay you “to chill”? Do you have any special skills that would make you highly valued to a company and you would be a prime catch?
by raw_anon_1111 10mo ago
Why would someone pay you “to chill”? Do you have any special skills that would make you highly valued to a company and you would be a prime catch?
- georgeburdell 10mo agoOn a visa too
- Glawen 10mo agoIt definitly exists, some managers just want increasing headcount to have more worth among their peers. My friend has one such job, he's begging for work. His colleagues could easily handle how workload
- arcfour 10mo agoThat doesn't sound like a job where you also grow...at all...
- DANmode 10mo ago> Why would someone pay you “to chill”? Since you asked, there’s a series of scenes in Silicon Valley where people are hired and just put on ice just to keep them from advancing competition. This reflects reality.
- raw_anon_1111 10mo agoNot post 2022 if you haven’t checked. And even then, those companies weren’t looking to hire up all of the random enterprise CRUD full stack developers. I put myself in that category. If you take away my AWS account, I’m just a senior enterprise Dev who knows how to talk to people.
- DANmode 10mo ago> I’m just a senior enterprise Dev who knows how to talk to people. Lots of devs don’t even know how to talk to their colleagues or spouse, let alone an arbitrary person for business development.
- DANmode 10mo agoEngineers are definitely considered chess board pieces in the AI debt wars.