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Ask HN: Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time

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Re: Ask HN: Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

msgodel wrote: post #19
shortrounddev2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much money would it take for you to be conflicted about it? 40% raise? 100%?

After you're stable there's just not that much to spend money on if you don't have a family. You might not be able to find a number that flips it for a lot of us. For me it would probably be above 500% and I'd still be conflicted there, especially if I had to commute.

Yeah I'm at that point now, too. I had a coworker lament to me the other day that his friends at [Big N tech company] make more money than him. Maybe he gets paid a lot less than me, but I don't really think there's much more money I'd take to go work for a Big N. Like if they offered me 20,000,000 a year, I'd be stupid not to work there for at least like 6 months, but obviously that's never gonna happen

Re: Ask HN: Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time

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Post by austin-cheney »

As a software developer I can always grant myself 20% more time. I will find a way to either automate areas of my responsibilities or reconfigure them as to be delegated to others in a more efficient configuration. This sort of social problem solving is always of greater interest to me than more money. I suspect that is why they promoted me to management and made me lead of operations for this big project.

Re: Ask HN: Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time

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austin-cheney wrote: post #23

As a software developer I can always grant myself 20% more time. I will find a way to either automate areas of my responsibilities or reconfigure them as to be delegated to others in a more efficient configuration. This sort of social problem solving is always of greater interest to me than more money. I suspect that is why they promoted me to management and made me lead of operations for this big project.

If you figure out how to automate 20% of your job does that mean you can go off into the woods and go hiking on mondays?

Re: Ask HN: Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time

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Post by austin-cheney »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #24
austin-cheney wrote: post #23

As a software developer I can always grant myself 20% more time. I will find a way to either automate areas of my responsibilities or reconfigure them as to be delegated to others in a more efficient configuration. This sort of social problem solving is always of greater interest to me than more money. I suspect that is why they promoted me to management and made me lead of operations for this big project.

If you figure out how to automate 20% of your job does that mean you can go off into the woods and go hiking on mondays?

I wish. Owning responsibilities in operations means always being available to respond as things come up. Gaining back 20% time just means I don't have ride the struggle bus everyday.

Re: Ask HN: Would you rather have 20% more money or 20% more time

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

austin-cheney wrote: post #25
shortrounddev2 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you figure out how to automate 20% of your job does that mean you can go off into the woods and go hiking on mondays?

I wish. Owning responsibilities in operations means always being available to respond as things come up. Gaining back 20% time just means I don't have ride the struggle bus everyday.

But then you're not getting any time back. You're just making that time easier, but you're still required to work
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