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I can find a good job easier than I can find $30k+ free money.

by Touche 12y ago

simplemath 12y ago
hear hear
sliverstorm 12y ago
If you can find a better job than you have, why haven't you done that already?
- Touche 12y ago
  No one's giving me 30k to go look for one.
  - logfromblammo 12y ago
    This is highly relevant. Looking for a new job is like another job in itself. You have to do research, have telephone conversations, be "switched on" in your interview persona for hours at a time, jump through flaming hoops, and if possible, also be younger, more energetic, and more beautiful than you really are. It's a sales job, with you as the product. I. Hate. Doing it. So while a lot of people could go out and get a better, higher-paying job, there is a potential barrier and significant activation energy for that reaction. Doing my regular job plus the self-sales job is absolutely exhausting. When my current job is already almost good enough to keep, I have little incentive to go sift through piles of recruiter spam and speculative postings to find the actual jobs, retype every last detail of my resume into yet another stupid custom candidate tracker web-app, suffer through the bozo filter and the pop quiz of the tech screen, fly or drive wherever, and spend one of my vacation days playing along with some stupidly involved interview process, only to see a curtain of silence descend forever. For $30k, and an extra 40 hours per week in which to do it, I would certainly put up with the tech hiring circus for a couple of months.
- rifung 12y ago
  Note that he said a good job, not necessarily a better one. I think the idea is that if someone is giving you 30k to find one, you really only need to find one that pays the same, or close. Technically you'd come out positive if you found something that's at least more than (what you make) - 30k, but then you have to consider raises and such.
- s73v3r 12y ago
  Their current job might be "good enough" in that the benefits of switching are not significantly over the costs of switching. But when you add 3 months of salary to the equation, that might tip the scales.
- a3n 12y ago
  There's always a better job. At some point you have to stay somewhere for awhile, to gain whatever it is you're trying to get: stability, experience, improvement, contribution, pay, benefits, community.

I can find a good job easier than I can find $30k+ free money.

by Touche 12y ago

I can find a good job easier than I can find $30k+ free money.

simplemath 12y ago

hear hear

sliverstorm 12y ago

If you can find a better job than you have, why haven't you done that already?

Touche 12y ago
No one's giving me 30k to go look for one.
- logfromblammo 12y ago
  This is highly relevant. Looking for a new job is like another job in itself. You have to do research, have telephone conversations, be "switched on" in your interview persona for hours at a time, jump through flaming hoops, and if possible, also be younger, more energetic, and more beautiful than you really are. It's a sales job, with you as the product. I. Hate. Doing it. So while a lot of people could go out and get a better, higher-paying job, there is a potential barrier and significant activation energy for that reaction. Doing my regular job plus the self-sales job is absolutely exhausting. When my current job is already almost good enough to keep, I have little incentive to go sift through piles of recruiter spam and speculative postings to find the actual jobs, retype every last detail of my resume into yet another stupid custom candidate tracker web-app, suffer through the bozo filter and the pop quiz of the tech screen, fly or drive wherever, and spend one of my vacation days playing along with some stupidly involved interview process, only to see a curtain of silence descend forever. For $30k, and an extra 40 hours per week in which to do it, I would certainly put up with the tech hiring circus for a couple of months.
rifung 12y ago
Note that he said a good job, not necessarily a better one. I think the idea is that if someone is giving you 30k to find one, you really only need to find one that pays the same, or close. Technically you'd come out positive if you found something that's at least more than (what you make) - 30k, but then you have to consider raises and such.
s73v3r 12y ago
Their current job might be "good enough" in that the benefits of switching are not significantly over the costs of switching. But when you add 3 months of salary to the equation, that might tip the scales.
a3n 12y ago
There's always a better job. At some point you have to stay somewhere for awhile, to gain whatever it is you're trying to get: stability, experience, improvement, contribution, pay, benefits, community.