Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
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Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#2Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the intersection of "interesting" work and "valuable" work is pretty small.
Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#3rattle your network until you find a tenured professor who has interesting-to-you grants, and talk them into letting you join the lab as a visiting researcher.
if you do it right they’ll be overjoyed to have technical staff who aren’t degree candidates and you’ll get something tasty to intellectually munch on.
Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#4This is interesting!
My own anecdote: when I graduated from college I had zero experience aside from one internship at a small noname company. No one would hire me. I started reaching out to local companies big and small saying I would work for free if they'd use me. Not just programming jobs, but also general IT or even helpdesk jobs - anything remotely computer related. None took me up on my offer. I suppose they saw me as more of a liability than an asset, or that onboarding costs still wouldn't be worth having free labor. It was an interesting eyeopener.
But since you're experienced, your story is different from mine.
Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#5rattle your network until you find a tenured professor who has interesting-to-you grants, and talk them into letting you join the lab as a visiting researcher. if you do it right they’ll be overjoyed to have technical staff who aren’t degree candidates and you’ll get something tasty to intellectually munch on.
He did not graduate so he is not eligible for any work as a researcher inside any eu university.
Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#6rattle your network until you find a tenured professor who has interesting-to-you grants, and talk them into letting you join the lab as a visiting researcher. if you do it right they’ll be overjoyed to have technical staff who aren’t degree candidates and you’ll get something tasty to intellectually munch on.
Yea i feel like a job in research would be best fit, but that probably also requires a certain level of graduation.
Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#7So Francesco says they refuse to do technical interviews and says their CV and Github are proof enough.
The CV shows experience as a freelance engineer at Apple for a bit, then an engineer for Samsung which they were made redundant from. Their GitHub is 3 projects, a python script, a breakout board and then a beta libary. They argue that's fine though because they'd work for £1/hr, but the real cost of an upfront hire is my time, not money.
The author seems to not understand how key money is for the relationship between manager and employee. I have plenty of employee's who'll work on interesting stuff in their own hours, but I pay them so they stay around and do the boring bits like docs, DR, testing, support, bus-factoring.
Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#8rattle your network until you find a tenured professor who has interesting-to-you grants, and talk them into letting you join the lab as a visiting researcher. if you do it right they’ll be overjoyed to have technical staff who aren’t degree candidates and you’ll get something tasty to intellectually munch on.
He did not graduate so he is not eligible for any work as a researcher inside any eu university.
Couldn't he be hired as an engineer or technical staff?
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Re: Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
#10My advice: pursue a PhD. If you can find the right advisor, then you will have almost complete creative freedom to pursue interesting projects while getting paid to do it.