Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
by tshaddox on Monday August 10, 2009 @01:08AM
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I think your employer would find you to be a rather poor employee in that #2 situation.
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Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
by nkurz on Monday August 10, 2009 @01:25AM
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No, I don't think so. Or at least it depends on the job.
As an employer, I know that you are working there because you love what you are doing and don't want to be doing anything else. I don't have to worry that you'll move along as soon as someone offers you another $1.50 an hour. And in a startup, I know that if we hit a rough patch we can probably come up with a way to trade you equity for salary. For creative positions, I'd view financial independence as a positive.
Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
by bowman on Monday August 10, 2009 @05:19AM
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Who says the OP would be an employee? A lot of fun though low paying jobs involve owning your own shop/bar. A second hand bookshop. A motorbike shop. A cafe doing X for the Y demographic etc.
Re:Ask HN: How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number?
by swombat on Monday August 10, 2009 @03:34AM
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On the other hand, it means that you can be more positively disruptive when faced with a situation where someone else might not do anything (because they're afraid of losing their job). This can be a plus as well as a minus.