My boss lets me live in one of his apartments rent-free with all utilities covered, and he also gave me a spending card.
I get parts at shop cost, and get full access of the shop to maintain my families vehicles and make whatever I want (we have 3d printers, lathe, bridgeport, plasma table, 4 axis cnc, tons of welders pipe benders etc). Also the boss is super laid back and willing to teach everything he knows. Wish I had more time to take advantage of it all!
There are lots, actually.
- 42 days of paid vacation plus unlimited sick days
- 7h work day with flexible office time and right to work from home
- No expectation of overtime, very manageable workload
- Beautiful bike path from my home to the office
- I can use the company car privately, and not pay for fuel
- I can even borrow a panel van for free if I need to move big stuff
So this job allows me to live car-free, and has great work-life-balance
Im mostly remote in an industry ai cant really take over.
which one, and why?
My office is by the sea. I can have my morning coffee outside watching the waves. In summer, I get to work early walking, it’s 8 km or so, then have a quick dip in the ocean and get dressed and start working. Bliss
Working from home and everyone being understanding about work-life balance, mental health etc., without it being a big deal. No pressure (at least not like I used to get when I was younger!)
I’d say you can work from everywhere and companys are usually chill
Softwaredeveloper
I work in live events as an event planner, running lights, sound, video, etc… I’m paid to be at the shows that audience members pay lots of money to attend.
I legitimately don’t remember the last time I actually paid for a ticket to a show. Because even if I’m not working it, I probably know someone who is. The industry is fairly small, so I have friends all over the local venues. In the past week alone, I have seen four different shows, (two dance shows, a jazz concert, and a play). I was paid to attend three of them. The last one I got into for free, because I play board games with the venue owner.
Dog trainer and kennel tech. I get to take my dogs to work with me and 95% of my job is just me interacting with dogs, a blessedly human free experience.
I have yet to meet a dog I didn’t like, but fear if i worked as a vet tech or really anything with animals all day that would break eventually… still a great perk, heckin’ good
I work from home. The systemic incompetence of this multinational fortune 500 company means I can do a lot of reading and no one seems to notice.
Of course, management is planning to fire a lot of people, including me, to pivot to AI.
That I still have one. I’m a software developer, and my entire industry has lost its mind.
I’m freaking out trying to think of what I could pivot to as the industry implodes
So far, nothing that pays as well
I’m just holding out hope that my company still has enough sanity left to keep from firing the team responsible for its (incredibly busy, active, and above all publicly-facing) developer portal in favor of having a vibe-coder
destroymaintain it. At least long enough for the AI bubble to finally burst.
Weirdly, it is my boss. He always got my back and takes everything I say really seriously. I am not the only one who thinks he is the best boss. We get a lot of perks that some of my friends are jealous of, but I value my boss far more than most of those perks. I have learned that if the boss sucks than great perks doesn’t keep me, maybe a bit longer, but usually not for long.
Unlimited servers. I work for a VPS provider and on my first day my boss setup my account with $10k of credit and showed me how to add more in the admin panel “whenever [I] need it”. As long as I’m only using things with plenty of excess capacity and don’t cause problems, I can spin up whatever I want.
Sadly, I’ve already got a rack of hardware at home, so all I’ve done so far is spin up a server with 96GB of ram and put a 2-page static website on it, lol.
Hardware depreciates.
Sell your homelab and stick the proceeds in a stocks and shares ISA.
when you leave the company and no longer have access to their hardware you’ll have the money to rebuild with newer machines
If you can spare the resources you should consider spinning up a Nethack server
Nethack server
Ooh, interesting. I’ve never tried playing that.
Finally you can start your own Minecraft server.
Yeah, game servers is about the only thing I’ve come up with for a way to take any real advantage of the perk.
Working from home.
I must admit, I would not decide to have kids without working from home. What is even the point in bringing them to this world if their parents are gonna just park them at care centers for most of the time?
As a historical side note, the idea that children grow up and are raised exclusively by their biological parents is extremely recent and basically a British/Germanic cultural export.
Most cultures raised their kids communally. Some people are responsible for raising the kids, and the kids spend all day with them. After some time the kids develop interests and start learning from other grownups that do that “work”. Sometimes it’s their biological family, sometimes it isn’t.
And that makes much more sense tbh. Most parents in modern nuclear families are terrible at raising kids. And they aren’t even doing JUST that. They have to juggle their own lives, their work, keeping a house clean (because due to the British/germanic nuclear family we all need to live in our own “tiny estates” isolated from other people), AND raising kids.
We should have the people who love kids the most and who teach them the best raise them, imo.
Nothing new to me.
To afford two kids I work two jobs and my wife works one. And grandparents don’t want to help, citing that “they did their share of caring for kids already in life”. So here we are - two people, two kids, constant stress and overworking just to make ends meet.
Yeah, I had my first before COVID, and then COVID happened, and I’ve turned away a lot simply because it cuts into time with my kids. I walk them to school every day, so I can’t leave my house til 845-9am earliest, but that doesn’t stop me from covering remote work that starts normally at 10. And I stop by 330 or so every day and go get my kids. If I was somewhere else, I’d be stopping at 230, and I do so with absolutely zero remorse, don’t care if we’re done or not. Kids are my number one priority, they won’t be this age forever, and I intend to maximize my time with them.
Health insurance is FREE! They cover all my co pays and prescriptions!
Of course this comes at a loss in hourly wage, but I value it at somewhere around an extra $5 an hour due to the insane American healthcare system. I will stay as long as I can.
I work a solid 20 hours a week from my basement and get 200k+
Teach me your ways 👀
DevSecOps, staff engineer. 50/50 IC/Managing technical people and direction.
Also want that!
Product manager?
So I thought your response was a short response from another thread. My bad, I misread the entire intent. I can’t delete for some reason.
DevSecOps Staff Engineer.
Slinger of yaml.
Nice! The extent of my own involvement with .yml files is just Espanso, haha.
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