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One should also be careful about making blanket statements. For a high earning individual it is possible no amount of additional pay will compensate for the los
by kabouseng 13y ago
One should also be careful about making blanket statements. For a high earning individual it is possible no amount of additional pay will compensate for the lost time.
- stef25 13y agoThat's exactly why I want to switch to a lower paying job to be closer to home.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoI moved from Silicon Valley back to my hometown after 10 years, at a 50% pay cut. Still was paid 50% more than my geo-contemporaries. And since I moved I've gotten into consulting, which is location-independent, and my pay is back up to Valley levels. So pretty sweet deal. This only worked because I had contacts in the business. That got me steady contracting work all this time (decades).
- kabouseng 13y agoDo you find that you have to travel to SV regularly to visit your clients / find new prospects?
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoSure, at least in the past. I went a week a month to wherever the customer was. That sucked a little, but I didn't complain (much) because some folks (salesmen) travel 3 weeks a month. Now, I use collaboration tools. Actually I got a contract writing them for a Mt View startup, and we dogfood the product. Its great; I'm in constant contact with my team, we find bugs fast, and the product is gaining traction. So last time I travelled it was to an offsite planning meeting (folks from 4 states met in a Chicago rental office). And that was more than a year ago.