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I love doing my job, and in a Star Trek-style socialist paradise I'd gladly do the same job even without differential compensation versus other options. That sa
by djur 12y ago
I love doing my job, and in a Star Trek-style socialist paradise I'd gladly do the same job even without differential compensation versus other options. That said, as a class-conscious worker in a capitalist system, I would never accept job satisfaction in lieu of fair pay.
I did take a pay cut for a while to work at a startup, but that was a choice I made based on the expectation that once the financial situation changed the founders would do right by me (and it did, and they did).
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoSomebody said to me in graduate school "You take the best offer you get, somebody else is determining your future." She took the job she wanted. What's wrong with that? It's not all about the money.
- djur 12y agoThere's a big difference between only taking the best offer (by which I assume you mean most lucrative) and only taking offers that are adequately compensated for the work performed. There's lots of employers that take advantage of their employees' desire to do good in the world in order to shortchange them.
- Iftheshoefits 12y ago"You take the best offer you get, somebody else is determining your future" generalizes: "You take any offer (of employment), somebody else is determining your future." Both are fairly vacuous tautologies.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoBe as cynical as you like. But its still possible to keep looking until you find something that fits your priorities instead of signing up for the first big bank that makes a big offer.
- analog31 12y agoI would say instead, if you take the best offer, somebody else is determining your past. That's because the salary you receive becomes your past when you use it to negotiate the next offer.