I'll take a 60 hour work week and mandatory 12 hour weekend shifts for a total of 84 hours a week right now. I'll take minimum wage. How on earth are y'all getting and keeping jobs such that you can whine about not having enough time to spend your fortunes?
Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime
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#32Re: Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime
#33* Increase your value. In my case I have decades in senior management in a part time job managing up to 30 people. There were many times the stress of the part time job absolutely dwarfed that of the full time job. These experiences supremely advanced my communication skills, public speaking, and administrative capabilities generations beyond that of my developer peers. This means my employer knows I am capable in wa…
Thanks GPT but OP was talking about something different.
It was not GPT just as I am sure you are not trolling.
Re: Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime
#34* Increase your value. In my case I have decades in senior management in a part time job managing up to 30 people. There were many times the stress of the part time job absolutely dwarfed that of the full time job. These experiences supremely advanced my communication skills, public speaking, and administrative capabilities generations beyond that of my developer peers. This means my employer knows I am capable in wa…
What I mean by more freetime is a time off the 9-5 job
Oh thats far too easy. Just use your company provided PTO or take a leave of absence. Why even bother asking HN for that when you should be asking your employer's HR team?
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#35Work well paying jobs, save up a lot, take time off, repeat.
And resume gaps?
and being over 40?
Re: Ask HN: I don't want higher salary, I need more freetime
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I mean by more freetime is a time off the 9-5 job
Oh thats far too easy. Just use your company provided PTO or take a leave of absence. Why even bother asking HN for that when you should be asking your employer's HR team?
Do you live in the US?
PTO, even unlimited, is managerial discretion (not HR) and is rarely allowed more than two weeks in a stretch.
What's a leave of absence?
As a financial tech worker, what you're describing sounds like academia or European standards. Of course they're great solutions, they just don't exist as options for some of us.
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#39In Germany you can request to work part-time (30h per week), it's in the constitution, of course, you get paid 30 hours. It's really common, it's so common that the average work week here is 35/h. Most people I know work the default 40h, but as people get older they typically opt-in to work part-time. So if you aren't from Germany, one thing you can consider is moving here. It has a good/stable tech job market. Salar…
That’s EU-wide. https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...:
“You must offer your part‑time staff the same employment conditions as full-time workers, including pay, leave, notice periods and other rights and benefits linked to their employment. The employment conditions should be applied on a pro-rata basis compared to full time workers. For example, if a part-time worker works half the hours of a full-time worker, they should receive half the amount of annual leave.
[…]
Whenever possible, you should try to accommodate requests from your employees if they want to change their working schedules, such as:
- transferring from full-time to part-time
- transferring from part-time to full-time
- increasing their working hours
You cannot dismiss an employee if they refuse to transfer from part-time to full-time work or vice versa.“*
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh thats far too easy. Just use your company provided PTO or take a leave of absence. Why even bother asking HN for that when you should be asking your employer's HR team?
Do you live in the US? PTO, even unlimited, is managerial discretion (not HR) and is rarely allowed more than two weeks in a stretch. What's a leave of absence? As a financial tech worker, what you're describing sounds like academia or European standards. Of course they're great solutions, they just don't exist as options for some of us.
Yes, I am a US software developer with nearly 20 years. You are very clearly not talking to your employer and not thinking this through.