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It’s wild to me that the only reason his wife gave him 30 mins/day of personal time was because of the financial payoff. Bizarre dude and story.
The blog said he needed an additional 30 minutes of time each day, not just 30 minutes period. Presumably they already have a system worked out where they each get some personal time during the day and the job quest shifted this balance.
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At a certain point, I guess you'd have to say to yourself (or I'd have to say to myself, would be a better way to say it), "I'll whore myself out for X amount of time for X amount of money, then I can do whatever I want or work for whomever I want for X amount of time, after."
"Everyone has a price"
It's wild to me that his way of figuring out what companies to apply for was to make a list of the top-paying ones and just pick the top 10 highest-paying. Is that a common strategy? No thought about product, industry, impact on the world, just $$$. It looks like it worked out for them though, since I guess they got like a million dollar offer, so maybe I'm the one approaching this the wrong way?
If you view a job as just a job, and find meaning in other things in life, optimizing for TC seems incredibly rational. The problem is some people doing that don't actually find meaning in anything but money.
This is basically my perspective, although I factor in the value of my time doing the actual work as well. Even with great WLB and very high TC, if you're working 25 hours a week doing miserable stuff... thats 25 hours of your life spent in misery. Would rather that be enjoyable if possible if all other things can be kept constant.
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That’s 30m of not helping with a one-year-old. That time is _precious_.
Yeah 30m of extra 'me' time could easily mean the wife loses half her free time. That breeds a TON of marital problems and issues if you don't clear it. A 1 y/o is basically a time vacuum.
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Are you people out there really setting up a daily calendar to deal with childcare? 4:30 - 5:00 Change Diaper 5:00 - 6:00 Bounce on knee 7:00 - 8:00 Contemplate on the poor life decisions that lead to this scenario
Man the 22 year olds in this thread are hilarious. Yes. With a one year old, esp during COVID, childcare time is time you can’t leave the house, can’t relax, can’t do anything productive. So yes, you make a schedule - you pick them up from daycare, watch them for an hour while I study, then I’ll come make dinner and do bedtime.
- 22yr olds are sexually capable and may reproduce if they choose.
- Some of those might also have internet access.
"Once I showed the potential salaries to my wife, we both agreed it would be perfectly reasonable for me to ask for 30 minutes of additional “me time” per day to prepare for my next job," What the hell? If he wants 30m to himself each day he needs to clear with his wife? Don't most people get more than 30m free time each day away from their partner? Just what kind of unhealthy relationship is this dude in?
> he needs to clear with his wife?
He is saying "additional". It does not mean total = 30min of free time.
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I'm not sure there's "change your values" type money for everyone. Though for me, $1MM is enough to consider working for Amazon to attempt to change it from the inside. Perhaps we're saying the same things with different words.
Amazon is not going to change from the inside for anyone making $1M. If you go in thinking it is, you're deluding yourself and will be much less effective than if you just accept that Amazon is what Amazon is and you're whoring yourself out to them for $1M/year. Your paygrade needs to be at least $100M/year to have a reasonable shot of changing the culture of a large company. Most likely, by the time you get up there…
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Comp is king, everything else is window dressing; only the comp pays the bills and gets you closer to financial independence (wealth is options, options are freedom).
Reminds me of the old story of the King's servant saying to the monk, "If only you'd learn to pander to the King, you wouldn't have to live like a monk." To which the monk replied, "If only you'd learn to live like a monk, you wouldn't have to pander to the King!"
> … instead of studying how to make it worth men’s while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/316215-not-long-since-a-str...