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I would happily pay you 1k a month for 40 hours a week of work. Would you be open to that? My email address is in my profile if you want to explore this further.
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Is that the Gitlab that famously only pays proportional to your cost of living?
It sounds as if you don't like that -- in which ways would it be better from their perspective to ignore location?
So companies should be willing to pay a fair wage to good developers. I say should - obviously this is capitalism and if they can get it done for a penny then why not - but if developers refuse a bad deal it will create pressure for them to do so.
If I’m selling enterprise software in New York and someone from New York who happens to be residing in Mexico at the moment is working for me, I’m selling $10k/y licenses and paying him 20k/y something seems off.
OTOH if he moves to San Fransisco, Kensington in London, Monaco or Hong Kong I say ah ok here’s $200k. He’s doing the same stuff!
Doesn’t make sense to me. Instead say well he is worth $100k to us, he then chooses to live wherever in the world makes sense and is affordable.
For a remote first company that’s make sense.
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Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...
I'm not telling you specifically who, obviously, but we have 3 clients that order a post from us about once a month for at least $1,000. The posts typically are: - 2000 to 2500 words - FAST (48 hour) turnaround - ready to be published without more than a simple read through - voice consistent with other posts that we may not have written for them - well cited or referenced The clients are - b2b environment selling in…
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I mean that would be true in the US, but OP explicitly said he's not in the US. It really depends on where he is; 1.5k/month could be considered a very good wage where he is.
That's the wrong way to go about it. You want to be pricing based on supply and demand, not based on your costs. OP stated he wanted to work remotely, hence he's competing in the global (remote work) market. Many US and other companies hire in this market and often pay US-level (but generally not Silicon Valley-level) salaries. A lot of digital nomad types have those jobs. Judging by OP's good grasp of English and th…
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This is an idea that I think of everyday but I can't find an answer because of these reasons Most doctors have a very poor IT knowledge. Most of them know only to use Facebook Most patients are elderly people, or people with extrame poverty. They either don't have the knowledge facilities or the money to pay for such a services. Most of the work in hospital are still done by painful paper work. But making hospitals c…
I work in a hospital and I can say that COVID has pushed the transition to telemedicine like nothing else could. Many clinics were forced to see their patients over telemedicine and are realizing it worked. Prior to COVID physicians would have never agreed to it, but COVID forced this expeirement. The thing that needs to catch up is the fee guidelines that allow physicians to charge for telemedicine visits. It often…
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People attend college and spend enormous money & time with no guarantees. The unpaid time spent is not throwaway. If I was 19 today - and wanted to code for the most $$$ possible. I wouldn't be in college. I'd be building up skills + know people. Know people even tougher I'd argue for technical people who are often introverts.
And being a reliable open-source contributor on projects people use can open doors that college could never open. From personal experience Open Source is also a great way to get to know people, especially if the project has an active IRC or Slack.
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It sounds as if you don't like that -- in which ways would it be better from their perspective to ignore location?
This is how I think of it. The cliche is “software is eating the world” and it’s true - most companies hiring engineers are doing so because their bottom line is doing well thanks to specifically how scalable software is and how many real world problems it can help with. So companies should be willing to pay a fair wage to good developers. I say should - obviously this is capitalism and if they can get it done for a…
I too think things get weird, when a low living costs country person moves to a high cost place (or the other way around) and that now s/he makes more money (or less), although the same work.
> if developers refuse a bad deal it will ...
The thing is, I think, that it's a good deal to them
(Otherwise the company just raises the salary until it is)
To me, this is both confusing and makes sense at the same time depending on from which "angle" I start thinking
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And being a reliable open-source contributor on projects people use can open doors that college could never open. From personal experience Open Source is also a great way to get to know people, especially if the project has an active IRC or Slack.
I would love to contribute to open source but in 10+ years I've never found a project. Is there a good website that matches developers to projects?
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For freelancing sites, you need to focus on stuff established businesses need and shy away from anything catering to individuals or startups. Payment is all relative. Someone with an idea for a new social network might think of $10,000 as a lot of money, even if they want an entire app with lots of features built from scratch, which could be a months' long job. They will vastly underestimate how expensive this will b…
> I hired freelancers at my last job. When going through candidates, I didn't look for the lowest bidder. I looked for someone who charged a reasonable amount who looked like they knew what they were doing. +1, this is how anyone sane chooses vendors. Paying bottom dollar is a good way to end up costing the company just as much in hassle and in-house resources dealing with that hassle.