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by granshaw 5y ago
How would you know in advance which was which? (And often “getting work done early” just becomes “here’s more work”)
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by granshaw 5y ago
Afraid of their future I’m assuming, with a much better welfare and safety net in Europe
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by granshaw 5y ago
There are many sizes of "startups" too – many Series C and above you'll probably never have to interact with the CEO directly, WLB improves too, but with lower equity and upside
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by granshaw 5y ago
Thanks for your detailed reply! First off, looks like you're based in the UK, so I think it's quite a different situation than the US – from what I hear unless you can get into a FAANG, Engineer jobs at other tech companies pay pe
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by granshaw 5y ago
Curious what you see as the "lifestyle upgrade" in the contracting route? Is it mainly in the comp (if so, see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30103313 ), or something else?
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by granshaw 5y ago
Sure but even then it's low compared to being a senior at FAANG and publicly traded startups, no? (ie $300k+ annually when RSUs are factored in) Especially when you factor in the job risk and lack of PTO (even ignoring lack of health i
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by granshaw 5y ago
That’s for a foreign market (India) though which proves the original point
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by granshaw 5y ago
Do they really go down without a recession though? Feels like just the rate of appreciation will decrease or go to zero, but not negative...
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by granshaw 5y ago
You can take on a little more risk, esp if you have a spouse with employer health insurance, and be a contractor. Hitting the $300k annual ballpark is pretty doable even with giving yourself about 20 days off a year, even while working at s
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’d like to find contracts that are purely delivery based and not part of a team setting. And do value based pricing so if I finish quickly, I’m truly off the hook and have my own time back
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by granshaw 5y ago
It’s probably that he has to “be available” and so can’t make good use of the working hours where he’s not doing active work It’s a common obstacle to making good use of your time even when underworked and working remotely. Ideally one coul
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by granshaw 5y ago
Be honest about your feelings, but still strive to be deserving of her, that’s what I try to practice :)
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by granshaw 5y ago
My job as an intern was to write an Nginx plugin for a specific type of filtering for high performance- boss was abit of a masochist ;)
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yup, look at that logo especially!
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by granshaw 5y ago
I remember the days circa 2009 when the Nginx docs pages still had lots of Soviet-style graphics... those were the days :)
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by granshaw 5y ago
I was a fulltime employee for about a decade. Quit to attempt to launch some products with a friend. Wasn’t very successful and started to get stressed out about savings going down so managed to find a 6hr/day contracting job, with the
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yeah I think many who’ve been in bad work situations like this don’t realize that not every company is like that. There are sane employers and teams out there that treat each other with respect. Please take that into consideration before go
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by granshaw 5y ago
You could be a consultant/contractor instead, not have to go through the leetcode gauntlet, and not buy into corporate culture BS - go in, do the work, rinse and repeat, and switch clients whenever you want
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by granshaw 5y ago
To expand on this, when can we stop asking “so what do you do?” as one of the first things when meeting someone for the first time?
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by granshaw 5y ago
Part of the problem is the social stigma of not having a college degree. Not sure how to fix that
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by granshaw 5y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”
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by granshaw 5y ago
One other advantage of contracting even in a staff aug arrangement: you have some protection against overwork in that (as long as your terms are hourly) you simply charge more if you worked more that week Often this also leads to clients be
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by granshaw 5y ago
One thing that I don’t see brought up enough is the different kinds of engagements a freelance developer could target: I suspect for many of us, the easiest to find would be what’s called “staff augmentation” - basically you get inserted in
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by granshaw 5y ago
The Brave New World cometh
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by granshaw 5y ago
> You don't. School is in walkable distance and kids can cycle themselves since the age of 8 or around. You also don't really live in a city center with kids. At first glance this seems contradictory – did you mean that there a
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yeah, even matching one developer job is hard... you definitely get better at it and closer as you go, but that's alot of opportunity cost in the process, if you can even survive that long on peanuts
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by granshaw 5y ago
Oh wow if only any old dev could bootstrap a $400k SaaS – way easier said than done
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’d really like to know where OPs working, I’m guessing a FAANG or similar, if so my next question would be how common is this at FAANGs
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by granshaw 5y ago
It's likely your product serves a certain segment better than others. By targeting just that segment (assuming it's big and profitable enough) the "lies" factor is greatly reduced cause it is indeed a great fit for them
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by granshaw 5y ago
I wonder if a big difference between now and the start of the 20th century is precisely the insane focus on short term return, what with the feedback loops being so much quicker and visibility so much higher

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