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Health and dental insurance can be a huge cost though.
Healthcare can definitely be expensive and you'll need a plan for that until Medicare kicks in.
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Do you also pay $10K/mo for a quarter-time dev role world-wide?
Nope, I missed that part if it was in the Gumroad post.
Speaking of long shots, I'm looking for exactly this setup with a Clojure(script) stack. The alternative is to build what you want, that has been my current plan. My only problem is that I want to make everything open source, and have no idea how to monetize my work.
Thanks for asking this. I recently took a job with $MEGACORP after 5 years with start ups. I forgot how much $MEGACORP likes meetings. I found myself thinking about how gumroad has no meetings. I asked myself the same question as the OP.
We do! (and are hiring; although we are tiny!) https://datascienceretreat.com/
Here's my LinkedIn so that you can see if I'll be a good fit for the roles you've in mind: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jie-poh-813748159/
Thank you!
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Everyone is hired for a specific job. The details of that job are explicit to both parties. Where there is ambiguity we call that out and set that expectation (ex: that this duty may change). This alone avoids a lot of the “not my job problem” or people trying to encroach on someone else’s job. In turn, this reduces chances of conflict and politics. Additionally, we keep communication extremely focused on work. There…
This sounds pretty awesome. I think that some of the office politics creep in not because of the projects that people are working on, but just because people actually interact on non-work things. This can be a really good thing in many cases (you spend a lot of time with these people, so it's good to have a cultural fit and hang out), but it can also be bad, because so much of your personal life can be wrapped up in…
My startup, Haekka ( https://haekka.com ) functions similarly. We don’t deal with office politics and bullshit. We only have two FTEs (founders) and 3 contractors. We’re 100% remote and have no plans on not being remote. My previous company that I sold was remote for 7 years. I don’t believe in building software in an office. We’re very transparent about our financial and business goals. My only scheduled meeting is…
> We don’t deal with office politics and bullshit. Maybe you meant to say - you don't have office politics. If you are not "dealing" with it then you are creating a bigger problem. I believe politics are a side product of humans working together. It'll just be there. Just like eating causes you to fart. Related interesting read but looks good only on paper - https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-facebook-tries-to-prevent-offic…
My startup, Haekka ( https://haekka.com ) functions similarly. We don’t deal with office politics and bullshit. We only have two FTEs (founders) and 3 contractors. We’re 100% remote and have no plans on not being remote. My previous company that I sold was remote for 7 years. I don’t believe in building software in an office. We’re very transparent about our financial and business goals. My only scheduled meeting is…
What does FTE means here?
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> We don’t deal with office politics and bullshit. Maybe you meant to say - you don't have office politics. If you are not "dealing" with it then you are creating a bigger problem. I believe politics are a side product of humans working together. It'll just be there. Just like eating causes you to fart. Related interesting read but looks good only on paper - https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-facebook-tries-to-prevent-offic…
Sure. I mean we don't have it. It hasn't come up. If it did, we'd obviously deal with it.
To me, that mindset sounds a bit like office politics itself -- i mean, using a negatively loaded word for branching a bit outside one's usual work tasks.
I'd generally be fine if my coworkers sometimes worked in"my" parts of the code base (or whatever it is) but it seems as if at where you work, they're not allowed to do that
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Move to a country where I can live off the 40k -> 60k a year an interest or whatnot. This basically means either Southeast Asia, or some parts of Latin America. Asian languages tend to be extremely hard, and it might be a lot easier to sort of blend in with the populace in Latin America. The last thing I want to do in my retirement is draw needless attention to myself.
You can also live just fine off that amount in most American cities. $40k is basically $2,500 / mo after tax. In the Atlanta area for example, there are plenty of nice 2-3 bedroom houses for $200,000 or even less, which puts your mortgage at $1,000 / mo. That leaves $1,500 / mo for a car, utilities, and food, which is plenty doable. Rent out a room if you want to for more income.