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Define "less flexible", someone doing consulting has flexibility to pick and choose clients. Someone who continually learns is capable of picking and choosing
by jmspring 12y ago
Define "less flexible", someone doing consulting has flexibility to pick and choose clients. Someone who continually learns is capable of picking and choosing technologies. I would think even someone in their twenties would have issues with "plans changing weekly".
- j1o1h1n 12y agoLess "flexible" with salary and benefits, presumably.
- jmspring 12y agoI've known people with nest eggs happy to take cuts for something interesting. But I also know with experience comes a skeptical eye for being asked to carry extra load for less upside (yet same or more risk). A story from some time back told to me. Founders had a UI, an algorithm, and an idea. It had merit. They sought someone out to build and run the actual service. The funding was angel, the role was senior to C-level, but the salary offered was 40-60k cut for a senior engineer at the usual suspects, equity capped at 4% assuming a trade off in salary. Risk and reward to build out infrastructure and productize someone's idea? I could certainly get a couple of people to build it out in a "get us to a-round funding" in those guidelines, maybe even beyond. But as expectations on a non-founding senior/early member, one would assume way too much risk for the potential upside. It isn't non-technical founder seeking technical co-founder waters, but damn close.