senior IC role, 4 days/week, 5 hours/day, 6 weeks PTO, 99% remote, flexible hours, pays ~75% (full time) market rate

I am very grateful to have a boss that is enabling this.

soo, where we should apply?

If I wish to acquire this position, to who should I present my rear end?

Where when how

Do we drop on our knees and say ah, or bend over for this?

@C0D4 Not at all.. after too many years of too much shit I told my boss I'd quit and he asked me what would be necessary to keep me. I wasn't bluffing, actually not even looking for a counter offer at all, but I have a good relationship with him and he's not bullshitting, so I made a (long) list of reasons and expectations. This contract change is one part of the deal, the other is actively improving the technical & organizational issues instead of further ignoring them.

At 40 hours I can easily get 30% more salary in a nice company, much more if I only look for money, but what for? This is kinda a win-win situation now: My employer doesn't need to spend more money nor lose me, yet still gets most of my work, given that I'm able to give my "best hours"*. I have a much better life-work-balance and can focus the hours I work on getting shit done and live life otherwise.

* before my marginal productivity drops hard, I expect to easily get done 70% at 20h of my "baseline" at 40h

@We3D @ars1 @pandasama I'm afraid the only way to get this is to work in a small company for long enough to show your worth and be lucky enough to have an employer that (1) actually values getting stuff done over looking busy and (2) cares about being a great employer at least as much as making money.

I would like this to be standard, but unfortunately the mindset of most employers is still very... industrial. As is software is made on a conveyer belt.

Still looking for the 2. kind of bosses. I had such actually at my start @ net dev, but I left b/c of a girl... and they have only 1, but big client with very complex business model which we made, and the guys still expand, but I've seen the good in the begining, left, and still searching same deal after that... life -]

For me, IC is a die packet in plastics with pads.

What do you mean when you say IC?

@happygimp0 individual contributor, so my task is to create, not manage. I do have some mentoring but I'm not responsible for others.

This is in contrast to a team lead / engineering manager who focuses more on what others are doing and manages their work.