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As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by onion2k »

lordnacho wrote: post #8

The first guy in the article is a dev. There's never been a better time to find work as a dev. Jobs are handing out more money with more flexibility than ever seen before. On top of it all, if your firm wants people back in the office soon, now is the time to do loads of remote interviews so that you can keep being remote. I was interviewing recently and almost everyone is at least partly remote, with a huge number o…

There's never been a better time to find work as a dev.

There's a lot of jobs, but there's also a lot of work to do for every application. Applying takes effort.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by dougmwne »

bamboozled wrote: post #28
dougmwne wrote: post #11

5 years ago I hit a burnout point and took a year off work. It was a huge perspective shift. I realized that my day-to-day of a rushed commute to work, a stressful and distracting office, thimble-deep coworker relationships and a life completely orientated around doing the above was an insane waste of my short time on Planet Earth. I reoriented my life around family, remote work, flexibility and balance. My quality o…

Nice you have the option

I had no special circumstances, I just made a choice to put years of savings to work for myself immediately instead of in the uncertain future. I sold everything and lived simply. Not everyone could do it, but many could who think they can't.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by ixs »

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #90
lordnacho wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the UK too. But also remote means you can get a job "based" anywhere. Check out some US firms for instance, many are hiring and are happy with euro time zones.

Is that your experience with US companies hiring at the moment? I never considered this type of roles before because it was sort of a given in my head that they would want US based candidates for taxation reasons. Have you seen a big change regarding this, from US based companies?

The US companies are hiring, just like everybody else.

Multi-nationals now seem to post most jobs as “remote” which means global. A smaller number is “US-remote”. Usually this is not for tax reasons but for business or security reasons if dealing with the US government.

Hiring remotely is easy for these companies as they usually have a subsidiary already in country. But even if not, there are now agencies that take care if things like taxation etc. I believe remote.com might be the one most known but it is certainly not the only one.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by nickpp »

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #77
bamboozled wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice you have the option

Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what, and even its worst places - its prison cells - compare favorably to the finest hotels of other countries. You have so many options you feel constantly overwhelmed, stressing about making bad choices because everything your primitive heart could ever desire is not merely available, but plentiful and cheap. And it'll recruit you if you're not…

Exactly 3 things: smoke weed, jerk off and play games on my Xbox. In that exact order.

Sorry for my honesty, I have no filter.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by Terretta »

dougmwne wrote: post #11

5 years ago I hit a burnout point and took a year off work. It was a huge perspective shift. I realized that my day-to-day of a rushed commute to work, a stressful and distracting office, thimble-deep coworker relationships and a life completely orientated around doing the above was an insane waste of my short time on Planet Earth. I reoriented my life around family, remote work, flexibility and balance. My quality o…

> Everyone

As we subconsciously blend anecdata from HN into our mental models, remember that we self-selecting to visit here commenting are already extreme outliers.

Weight our in(group)sights accordingly.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by adolph »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #65

This article opens with a person experiencing burnout and choosing to leave a job where he needed to commute 1.5 hours per day, but the story isn’t really about people quitting work or leaving the workforce. The majority of people resigning their jobs are simply changing jobs, and the article doesn’t provide any evidence that people are changing to remote work in large numbers. The biggest driver of the increase in j…

> booming economy. We poured stimulus money

s/oom/ubl/

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by modulusshift »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #84
hypertele-Xii wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what, and even its worst places - its prison cells - compare favorably to the finest hotels of other countries. You have so many options you feel constantly overwhelmed, stressing about making bad choices because everything your primitive heart could ever desire is not merely available, but plentiful and cheap. And it'll recruit you if you're not…

> Imagine living in a society where basic income is guaranteed no matter what Realistic UBI proposals wouldn’t exactly provide a comfortable wage. They’d provide just enough to get by on the basics, if that. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be helpful, but it does mean that it won’t be an attractive alternative to work for anyone who isn’t comfortable staying poor forever. UBI would still be a safety net, not an attract…

Personally I think that even if UBI wouldn’t provide a living wage in today’s economy, that it will fundamentally change market dynamics in interesting ways. Companies constantly adjust prices up in the US because of increased buying power, aka “they can afford to give us more profit”. There’s an entire industry of cheap smartphones that don’t release in the US, only in India, China, and third world countries, and they’re plenty profitable, but they deliberately only release even more profitable models in the US.

I think creating a significant class of people with reduced buying power in the US will actually lower prices here, as at least some companies decide they don’t want to miss out on that portion of the market just to soak the rest of the Americans for even more money.

Of course that’s expressing a lot of faith in capitalism so it’s entirely possible, even likely, that it would somehow make the entire situation even worse.

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Post by kingsuper20 »

kaycebasques wrote: post #78
foobarbecue wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't all times historic? What would you consider the least historic decade?

A decade is too big of a window. It's tough to pick one decade over another but I do think I could pick one year out of every decade over the others. To put my thought another way, if you think of society as a system, you've got a short period where the rules are being changed, and then we let the system run its course for multiple years. Eventually there are some gross inefficiencies that become too big to ignore an…

>A decade is too big of a window.

I think that it's too small. Consider the swathes of time that are examined in history books.

It all looks amazing and fast moving when you are living it, particularly when you are younger.

Re: As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

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Post by caseysoftware »

nickthemagicman wrote: post #93
YrAz3EGttt wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It indeed is a luxury to be able to take a year off at will. Big reason I can think of is financials. In my opinion, burnout is a problem only faced by people who can afford to do so. I am not saying everyone doesn't face burnout, they probably do, but not everyone can afford to take a sabbatical, dip into savings, indulge in a hobby etc. There are many people who don't earn as much as a silicon valley engineer, have…

2/3 of America lives paycheck to paycheck. Taking a year off is definitely not the norm

Most people pay $100+/month for cable, eat out multiple times per week, have thousands of credit card debt, and an unexpected $400 bill would ravage them.

If you want to live a un-average life, you need to have un-average priorities and sacrifice. Few on HN should be living paycheck to paycheck.

Check out Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover for a starting model. And yes, you'll have to sacrifice now to benefit later.

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