Poll: What matters most when considering a job?

Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by inerte on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @03:37PM (#562156)

Money, but until a certain treshold. After X per month other factors kick in, specially whom am I working with and what. Boring work can be made awesome with the right people, the opposite ain't true. People will crush you even if you're doing what you love.

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by yan on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @05:03PM (#562352)

"Money, but until a certain threshold."

You're referring to backward-bending supply curve of labor[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_o...

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by swombat on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @03:39PM (#562160)

Boring work can be made awesome with the right people, the opposite ain't true

You mean the opposite is true.

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by DavidSJ on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @05:27PM (#562393)

He means even fascinating work can't make working with the wrong people awesome.

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by orblivion on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @05:52PM (#562437)

He probably should have said "inverse".

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by inerte on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @06:47PM (#562523)

Honestly I have no idea how I could have inverted the 3 adjectives (english isn't my primary language) and I confess I went too far trying. But this isn't the first time I am corrected, and hopefuly won't be the last, since it makes me learn :)

I guess that's why I put the phrase after "the opposite ain't true"... anyway thanks everyone.

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by kingnothing on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @11:36AM (#563596)

Since English isn't your primary language, I'd suggest dropping "ain't" from your vocabulary. In the US, it's a word generally reserved for the ignorant and uneducated.

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Re:Poll: What matters most when considering a job? by Celcius on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @06:43PM (#562520)

There was a guest lecturer at my university who gave a talk on distributed development who claimed there's been studies that have shown developers don't tend to get happier the more they are payed as long as they aren't payed too little. Instead they seem to value things like training or just staying challenged as opposed to money.

I'm sorry I don't know exactly what studies he was referring too, but I'm highly inclined to believe what he was saying and it would agree with what you are saying.

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