amiuba

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by amiuba 9y ago
I think both options are used. You can either be an employee with a set termination date when starting, or a contractor invoicing for your hours. Contractor should have a higher hourly rate than employee because taxes, benefits, etc., but d
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by amiuba 9y ago
I updated the OP. I don't mind big gaps between contracts, another reason why I'm considering contracts is because I feel like 2-3 weeks of vacation a year is way too little.
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Ask HN: What about short term contracts instead of FTE for non-entrepreneurs?
5 points by amiuba 9y ago|8 comments
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by amiuba 9y ago
> I can help you with some ideas if you want. Sure, I'm always curious to hear ideas! Thanks
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by amiuba 9y ago
> But once you've seen what you've seen, you can't unsee it. What do you do then?
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by amiuba 9y ago
Definitely doing this already, but there is still several years to go.
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by amiuba 9y ago
I've done staff augs before, I hope to never do staff augs again. You are not respected, and have to absorb all the cost of poor decisions made before your time.
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by amiuba 9y ago
Aiming for FI only means that you'll eat the same shit but for much less time (i.e. 10 years vs 40+ years)
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by amiuba 9y ago
> a 100% sane assessment of his situation. Nothing could be a more accurate picture of most of our working lives than the OP's post To be fair, it is extremely hard to tell, even for me (OP). Sometimes I feel like I'm nuts beca
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by amiuba 9y ago
I'm far from an expert, I'd say intermediate. There are people I work with who know far more than I do. The company specializes in a couple of frameworks so yes they sell expertise in that sense, and they've done a lot of wor
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by amiuba 9y ago
Thanks, your blog has pretty good posts, I enjoy reading them.
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by amiuba 9y ago
Can you do it though? Public sector men's that you're paid less, a third of your pay is out away in a pension you cant touch until you turn 65 (if it's still there then). I've always wondered about it because I'd ra
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by amiuba 9y ago
That's the thing... I've worked at many different places (startups come and go fast), and I've never worked on something that I felt very strongly about. I was always solving someone else's problems while making someone
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by amiuba 9y ago
That's the thing though: how do you start? Where do you find clients? I obviously can't go after any of my current employer's clients, I don't have friends who studied CS and work at prestigious companies... How do you g
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by amiuba 9y ago
I negotiated my initial salary well (from talking with other colleagues who also shared their salary), but the only thing my company does is an annual performance review and a raise based on that. The raise is a few percents and that's
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by amiuba 9y ago
Value provided to my employer is more or less known: they sell my time for about 5x what they pay me (software consultancy). The stress is over issues that the client is pressuring us to solve before a deadline, that usually requires overti
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by amiuba 9y ago
I have considered freelancing, but I don't know where to start. The only place I know of is fiver and elance which have pretty bad reputation and where I couldn't charge enough for it to be viable. Any insight on how to execute th
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by amiuba 9y ago
Thanks for the input. Like WaxProlix, I'd be very interested to hear more. How to shift to freelancing (fiver/elance/whatever it's called today doesn't seem too good), and how does a co-op work in practice?
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by amiuba 9y ago
How did you get the gig? It seems my local and national government (Canada) only hires FTEs. I've applied before but was never successful.
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by amiuba 9y ago
FI/RE is a tremendous idea, and that's the thing that motivates me. I've been working on it for a few years now, but it's still far away. But it feels like it's not enough, I don't know that I can keep eating s
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by amiuba 9y ago
Haha yes, I love this joke. I've heard it before and that's how it feels.
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by amiuba 9y ago
> changed my focus to collecting as much money from the wealthy bosses as I could while providing as little value as I could. I thought about this and tried it this past year. It didn't go well and my performance review was abysmal.
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Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?
180 points by amiuba 9y ago|203 comments