If someone offered you a sum of money to quit your job today without another one to go to and you're not allowed to just go back to your current job, what's the least you'd take to do that?
What would you do after you quit? Why?
And if there's no amount, why?
Just curious. No judgement.
@raiderrobert There's no amount, because I run my own business. At that point it's not a job in the same sense, you have responsibilities, you can't just leave, not that I'd want to anyway.
*If* I stopped, I think I'd retrain as an English teacher (as teaching kids to speak English, I live in France). My teacher friends think I'm insane, but I've been volunteer English teaching 2 hours a week for years now and I really quite enjoy it. Either that or I'd just try and do some consultancy.
No choice fits.
After 3 months at new job - I quit without notice, but did leave a letter of resignation and explained why.
Ethical operation of company.
8 months later the business was closed. No idea how many customers were on the hook for payments made for equipment that was not delivered, or how many other employees didn't make the jump (I told 3 my whys and said goodbye).
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And I did not have a new job lined up at the time. But did within 3 weeks.
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@raiderrobert I picked the amount that I think it would take to bridge me until I found another job, because I'm too young to retire.
Given my current rate, and the fact that I just started a new job after going without for a while (so I have a sense of how long that can be), I picked > 50K.
I would do it for an amount equal to 2 or 3 times my annual net salary..
I move my family to a smaller city then start looking for a new job.
My dream is to open a little computer shop and provide assistance to small companies as service provider using #opensource
@raiderrobert Honestly I barely have a job now anyways, so a half-decent lump of money would be nice!
I'd probably focus full-time on my hobby projects, which I've been neglecting. And if I get enough to share, I'd probably share it around with others dissatisfied with computing's status-quo to build weird things together!
My main constraint is: I'm not moving out of Nelson! I'm devoted to the community here!
@raiderrobert it would have to be a larger amount, as my current job isn't that bad, but also I'm well into my 50s and would find it harder to get a new job (and setting up a "lifestyle" business you actually enjoy can go badly wrong unless there's a market for whatever you are doing)
Maybe I'd move into something automotive related (fixing up small used hatchbacks including EVs so folk in rural areas and careers like health and social care can get affordable transport, but it only takes a few lemons to cause a lot of stress and wipe out any profits you might make..)
@hacknorris @raiderrobert
What would you farm?
(In the mid-1970s, after a job dissolving out from under me, I was an organic vegetable farmer for a couple years.)
@hacknorris I grew all those things but the berries. And the first year, cucumbers were a big crop. The second year included a lot of green beans.
I learned a trick about potatoes: After tilling the soil, dig a trench and put the seed potatoes in the bottom. Cover them with aged horse manure (free for the hauling in my VW bus 😜) and then put dirt on top.
Not only does the manure make them grow well, but makes them easy to harvest.
@raiderrobert 1 year of my current salary (Which is well over $50k).
For the first 6 months I’d try my hand at running my own software consulting firm. If that isn’t going anywhere near being able to replace my income, then I have 6 months to find my next job.
@virbonus iirc I think Zappos used to pay new hires to quit somewhere between $2k-$5k. Admittedly that's a decade or so ago.
I vaguely recall other stories for people similar buyouts for relatively low in the past 5 years or so.
@raiderrobert @virbonus you said:
Zappos used to pay new hires to quit
doesn’t this mean they (Zappos) hire them (new hires) after they quit their old job?
@raiderrobert I'm unemployed right now, so the question doesn't really apply, but I answered "50k+" because I'd want at least 6mo. of income. I'm usually employed faster than that.
Tho, right now I'm in a 1yr+ drought.
@raiderrobert I suppose it depends on the definition of "job".
If you're talking about my current role at $company, then £10k would be a decent deal as I could probably find something else in my field in a month or two.
But if "job" means "any job where I roll code" then £50k isn't near enough. I have few other employable skills.
@raiderrobert Tough question. I somewhat like my job currently.
Working in research has a weird mix of up and downsides. I really like that "cutting edge" is often synonymous with "that's our baseline". We get to play with a lot of really cool stuff. On the other hand negotiating for contract renewal every year and hunting for the next bunch of funding... also the pay alone would definitely not be worth the stress.
So if somebody offered me enough money to do so, I'd have some interesting research ideas I'd like to work on. The problem with that is that it would require a lot of money.
@raiderrobert Dude, the statutory redundancy i.e. the minimum possible amount work have to pay to get rid of me if they make my role obsolete, is not a million miles away from $50K.
It would have to be an absolute minimum of two full years salary after tax, and to be certain, enough to retire on, which is somewhat more..
What would I do, with enough to retire on? Whatever I damn well want to, I've had it with corporate IT.
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