thelittleyes

Thanks for engaging with the piece, although reading some content you've put out into the world called "naive" isn't a great feeling. I wonder what other word might have been used to accomplish your point without being degrading. "Incomplete" perhaps?

To your points:

1. Stock options vesting and accomplishing something meaningful to show your value to your next employer are tactical considerations to make if you've decided to leave. So you're right that if you establish that your current place of employment won't allow you to satisfy your intrinsic motivations, isn't in a context you're interested in, or won't let you accomplish your lifestyle goals, you need a plan to quit. In creating that plan you'd need to consider the questions you asked, but those are more questions of when to quit, or how to quit, rather than if you should quit.

2. Money to fill you bank account is a shallow reason to work - working to support your family or send your kids to college isn't - those are intrinsic motivations - to feel like you're providing for your family - or to feel like you're being a good parent - working to get money in your bank account speaks to responding, like trying to get peer recognition, to an extrinsic motivator - earning more money. Many of my peers when I was in my 20's worked for the money, and the toys, but never finding satisfaction in that.

I would submit, and particularly in the case of my clients who are all software engineers, that they are able to fulfill most of their lifestyle/income goals, while still doing a MUCH better job of understanding what kind of work they want to be doing, and pursuing career opportunities that provide those to them.

That's not a tough situation, you're in a great situation! Two job offers that you get to choose from is not a bad place to be.

I help people think through these kinds of situations all the time with my work. If you're interested I'll give you a HN special of a free phone call so we can figure this out together. I'm not going to sell you on anything, so don't worry about that. If you're interested email samuel at thelittleyes.com

You can learn more about what I do here: http://www.thelittleyes.com

I'm not associated with it in any way, but there is a site that lists remote jobs (not necessarily part-time): https://remoteok.io/

Which of these two options do you think would work better for you?

1. Working 4 hours a day 48 weeks a year 2. Working 8 hours a day for a month, working only every other month?

If you answered #1 that's part-time, if you answered #2 that's freelance or contract work. Those are obviously generalizations but the exercise is still useful.

You may want to check out UpWork or www.remoteok.io for contract and part-time jobs.

I hope this helped some.

It's not really a question, more of a command, and it's a terrible one at that, simply because it is so vague. I often will just ask the interviewer "what are you most interested in hearing about?" and that generally will lead to a more specific question from them, such as "tell me about your most recent project or job" or "What do you find interesting?" or something to that effect.

I'm a firm believer that an interview is a two-way process, and that if you don't feel a question is a good one, helping the interviewer rephrase/reframe it so you can have a more fruitful conversation.

The main advantages of hand-writing for me (and I noticed this a lot when I was going through The Artists Way), was that it slowed me way down (my mind would try to race past how fast I could write but I would have to remain present), and also that I would entirely focused on the task, because Facebook or another website wasn't just a click away.

Have you made a decision? If not and you'd still like some help email me at samuel at thelittleyes.com and let's setup a time to chat. I coach folks through these kinds of decisions for a living. I'll give you the HN special, no charge for the first hour, and I think we'll probably be able to get you the clarity you need in an hour.