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!
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Im mostly remote in an industry ai cant really take over.
which one, and why?
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
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
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 ~~destroy~~ maintain it. At least long enough for the AI bubble to finally burst.
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 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.
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
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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.
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.
It's not all that remarkable for being in Europe, but... five weeks vacation per year.
I'm curious how that stacks up with others.
In New Zealand we get (for full-time employment):
- 20 days of annual leave (these can carry over, though the business encourage you to take them - and they can pay you out for 5 days a year, if both you and they agree).
- 10 days of 'sick leave' (this accumulates up to, I think, 20 days) - can be used for dependants (eg caring for a sick child).
- Up to 3 days bereavement leave.
- 12 'public holidays' (1 is a different day per region, the others are national holidays)
So we get less annual leave, but it gets more nuanced once all of the other leave types are considered. I think NZ is somewhere in the middle of the field when it comes to leave entitlements.
In the Netherlands it is a minimum of 5 times the days you work each week, so if you work five days it's 20 each year. Most companies add 5 extra days to this in the collective agreements (basically union agreements). These agreements also cover public holidays, 5 is the average amount I think.
Lots of companies have a 38 or 36 (less common) hour work week. Usually you'll work for 40 hours under these contracts, and for the extra hours you get "ADV" days, 12 if your contract is 38 hours. Depending on the company these days get scheduled in advance, or it's extra days off.
Quick edit: sick days is basically limitless if you're sick. There's other types of leave like bereavement leave or for care taking, but that is totally company dependent.
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In Spain this year is special for me ... I can have a total of 10 weeks off, plus two days of family time, plus two days of bereavement leave (my mother passed in April).
Plus any sick leave I might need, though I have to have a doctor's note if it's more than one day.
I feel like I'm a holiday millionaire ... pity it isn't every year!
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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.
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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.
Free food and getting to learn new cooking methods and recipes without having to foot the bill if it doesn't come out right
Fully remote, decent salary with quarterly bonuses, truly unlimited vacation, and my work life balance is 80/20 in my favor
what the hell do you do
Web dev
Porn star with themselves on OnlyFans.
Full time but 14 days off a month, 7 in a row.
Knowing where to not eat, stay, swim, or do any beauty/health treatments (tattoos, mani/pedi, hairdressing, etc.), and knowing how to protect myself.
Scouting out festivals and special events pre-opening and during for free.
Learning secret recipes and secret ingredients to make food level up.
Flexibility.
Edit: Clearly did not read instructions. The top one is the best perk. The second one is on par if I got to do more festivals!
Health inspector?
Bingo!
Is all of that on top of your actual package or does he hold you green card in exchange?
Office so close I can bike in 10 minutes or walk in 20, with a pretty flexible schedule. I like it better than WFH because I give up none of my house for work now. Oh and they close the office from Christmas Eve through New Years day, I have never before worked anywhere that does that.
Lots of PTO days but it's hard to take them (too many busy days at work, not enough staff.) I schedule little 1-2 day offs for every month at least though, and usually a week off in the summer.
I would certainly say working from home, I am physically disabled and my whole family is as well in a variety of ways. If it wasn’t for their flexibility I wouldn’t have the job I have. 150k salary with 10k or so bonuses, unlimited PTO. Software Development in fintech can be nice if you work for the right company(the more privately held the better)
I get to be my own boss (because I own the company) not much of a perk because it comes with a lot of drawbacks.
Also, your job sounds an awful lot like a housewife.
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98% work from home.
Flexible working hours (39h per week)
6 weeks vacation.
Sick leave nearly unlimited and with no questions (only the legally required doctor's statement if it's >3 days at once).
I work in a restaurant, I haven't had to buy dinner pretty much since I've started. The only times so far that I've sort of had to do it was when I really didn't feel like eating Italian for the 40th day in a row or when I had a girl over because we wanted to make gyros and dolmadakia.
Several.
- The best coworkers. Really.
- Paid lunch. Like, they pay for the food.
- Generous health benefits.
- Generous stock grants.
- Generous 401k.
- Unlimited PTO. Yes, really.
- Rapid promotion cycle.
- Respect. My department (operations) is frequently called out for it's critical role in the company's success.
Any flight longer than four hours are on business class
I have a company van I take home every night and a gas card for it. Also my paid hours start the moment I leave my driveway and stop the moment I pull back in my driveway.
But the best perk is that I have an excuse to spend all my money on tools. I would have done that anyways, but now it's justified.
I don't have a schedule. I arrive and leave when I want and taking a day off is no issue.
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