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posted by chromas on Thursday May 24 2018, @06:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-expect-full-time-wages dept.

For some people, a 40-hour workweek is something to aspire to; for others, it’s still too much time taken up by a job. If you fall into that second category, if you want more time for hobbies, family and friends, or working on your own software projects, you too might dream of working less than full time.

But how do you get there? Almost no one advertises part-time programming jobs–believe me, I’ve me[sic] looked.

The answer: negotiation. I’ve negotiated a shorter workweek a few times myself, and I’ve met other programmers who have done so as well, some with just a few years of experience. And of all the programmers I’ve met who’ve negotiated part-time work, Mike’s record is the most impressive.

Mike has spent pretty much all his career working part-time: he’s been working part-time for more than 15 years. To help you get to a shorter, saner workweek, I sat down to interview Mike about how he does it.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday May 25 2018, @12:05PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 25 2018, @12:05PM (#683975)

    There's been a masterful marketing job that SS and medicare are "savings programs" but they aren't, each dollar in is a dollar minus admin costs out with the occasional weird buffer funds that don't really matter much.

    Its simple wealth transfer from kids to parents. Everyone paying in is paying some kind of average for their parents medical care. If you're going to do the "nuclear family" thing with grandparents not living with the kids and grandkids like some cultures, then you gotta do something, pretty much. As an insurance scheme I'm down with it as some ancestors keel over cheaply with a stroke and others spend millions in nursing homes, and its unfair to the grandkids to wear shoes or not wear shoes because of how some grandparent randomly died.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @07:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @07:23AM (#684403)

    In both cases, one person is immorally imposing on another person. "But they took advantage of me in my youth, too!" is a non sequitur.