Yes. 4 day week, 3 months on - one month off, all kinds of things seem possible. What do you mean by senior?
Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?
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#12I would love to work 4 or even 3 days per week if I could still get health care with such low hours.
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#13I’m considering quitting engineering altogether due to chronic burnout. I suspect I’m not the only one. I would love a part time position that gives me recovery time, and I would happily take the reduced pay that comes with it.
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#14I have thought about it, but I think working 4 hours a day probably would cause similar low-level but constant anxiety about deadlines, bugs, etc.
I rather work a few months and then take a month off.
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#15Yep, I'm planning to try for some sort of semi-retirement before retiring completely. If there are such positions, I would be interested at that point.
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#16I'm a development/engineering manager now, so I don't do real work anymore ;)
...but yeah I'm at a point in my career where I value work/life balance more than money. Would definitely consider less pay for fewer hours per week and fewer weeks per year.
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#17I’m considering quitting engineering altogether due to chronic burnout. I suspect I’m not the only one. I would love a part time position that gives me recovery time, and I would happily take the reduced pay that comes with it.
Do you know what you'll be doing instead?
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#18I’m already part time as a senior engineer. But I make full time pay. If your intention is to pay less than full time salary, I’d imagine many of your target engineers are in my position and wouldn’t want the pay cut.
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#19I came across a few people on the internet who had convinced their employers to hire them as contractors when they started to realize their work could be done on a part time capacity.
Interestingly, they all worked in the insurance industry.
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#20> we're not so much looking for contractors/freelancers to work on specific projects, but for an experienced senior engineer .. to join a team and essentially be a guru or advisor to the team.
So, a consultant?