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Meanwhile, the tailor down the road who decided to take a couple of weeks to learn how to work with red velvet, despite his personal preference for working with

Meanwhile, the tailor down the road who decided to take a couple of weeks to learn how to work with red velvet, despite his personal preference for working with silk, has filled ten orders for red velvet jackets already this week, and has an order book with a couple of hundred more waiting to be filled. It's totally reasonable to refuse to work with technology X in favour of working with technology Y, despite the lack of demand for Y. But you can't simultaneously moan about how unfair the world is when you make that choice and then can't find as much work using Y. You knew what the situation was ahead of time.

lsc 13y ago
>It's totally reasonable to refuse to work with technology X in favour of working with technology Y, despite the lack of demand for Y. But you can't simultaneously moan about how unfair the world is when you make that choice and then can't find as much work using Y. You knew what the situation was ahead of time. This is the fundamental difference between being a worker selling hours and a company producing a product. I care a lot more about how much I get paid when I work than how many of my hours I can sell. From my perspective? it is far better to be employed 50% of the time at $100/hr than 100% of the time at $50/hr. Hell, I'd rather be employed 20% of the time at $100/hr than 100% of the time at $50/hr. I can use those other hours to work on setting up my company so that it can sell more products with less labor. Or read a book or go on vacation or something. Optimizing for getting more work is for people at the very beginning of their career, or for people who can't earn a high enough hourly wage to cover the essentials on less than full-time work. The thing is, demand does not equal pay; there are more jobs managing windows computers than there are managing Linux computers, but generally speaking? the latter pays better, in part because you usually have more servers per admin in a linux environment. Personally, I vastly prefer a high-pay, low-demand job where I might spend some time unemployed over the opposite. (that said, I don't know what .net dev pay looks like compared to node.js pay. If they can't fill the positions, perhaps it's not high enough?)

lsc 13y ago

>It's totally reasonable to refuse to work with technology X in favour of working with technology Y, despite the lack of demand for Y. But you can't simultaneously moan about how unfair the world is when you make that choice and then can't find as much work using Y. You knew what the situation was ahead of time. This is the fundamental difference between being a worker selling hours and a company producing a product. I care a lot more about how much I get paid when I work than how many of my hours I can sell. From my perspective? it is far better to be employed 50% of the time at $100/hr than 100% of the time at $50/hr. Hell, I'd rather be employed 20% of the time at $100/hr than 100% of the time at $50/hr. I can use those other hours to work on setting up my company so that it can sell more products with less labor. Or read a book or go on vacation or something. Optimizing for getting more work is for people at the very beginning of their career, or for people who can't earn a high enough hourly wage to cover the essentials on less than full-time work. The thing is, demand does not equal pay; there are more jobs managing windows computers than there are managing Linux computers, but generally speaking? the latter pays better, in part because you usually have more servers per admin in a linux environment. Personally, I vastly prefer a high-pay, low-demand job where I might spend some time unemployed over the opposite. (that said, I don't know what .net dev pay looks like compared to node.js pay. If they can't fill the positions, perhaps it's not high enough?)