Programming

I think in some cases it is far more than a marginal increase. I make just $120k at one of my jobs but I could make $400k+ at a job for a company far less ethical. Hell, a guy I know hit $700k one year at Ye Olde Meta (that did include exercising options though).

The allure of being able to retire early is nice. But instead of seeking high paying jobs I just mix and match multiple low paying ones from smaller companies and achieve roughly the same thing with less stress.

Which is why I’m a backend developer/infrastructure engineer for a nonprofit organization in the area of social services.

The pay is not as good but I can look my children in the eye and tell them that I am proud of the work I do.

where's your magical list of ethical companies 😂😂😂

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^ this is how

That's fucked, but the tip stealing 2.0 is also fucked.

I figured this out in the first few months. Any other driver I tried explaining this to called me crazy and/or a cheater. I made twice what they did in a third of the drive-time, maybe half the time in my car when you count the time I sat Available while playing on my phone, using indoor bathrooms like a human-being, napping/meditating, or stuffing my face.

Sure buddy, I'm just that jealous of your work-ethic and two-door hatch-back that's probably seen you reported dozens-of-times over. Super-hacker, liar, lazy fuck; Ya got me dead to rights.

Edit: I only drove passengers for the ride-share companies. Washing my hands enough for anything food related on an on-going basis destroys my skin, and my car is nicely climate-controlled, so ...

the best part is, some of us drivers have largely already figured out they do this and have to pay for a second app, Maxymo, to automatically do math and see if a ride is worth a certain $/hr, and accept/decline based on this.

Every now and then, Lyft will try to goad me into accepting offers that would pay, over time, about half as much as what I normally get (Uber, unsurprisingly, always offers me less, so I don't drive for them), and I can't focus on driving and do mental math at the same time. This wouldn't be necessary if they just paid fixed rates based on distance and demand, or gave drivers control over what they want to charge for a ride like an actual contractor, but that doesn't make shareholders happy.

I'm not even that broke and I don't use them. Everyone I know who does is horrible with money.

The main benefit of Prime is savings on shipping. Without it, Amazon's far too expensive. Maybe they slow shipping speed for regular customers, but seems like they'd shoot themselves in the foot. Who pays extra shipping and waits twice as long? In any case, if you're going to use Amazon, you're all but forced to buy Prime. Which is fine by me. I can't afford the 20-mile roundtrip to town and the extra price on other sites.

Of course this is a thread about software where people pay $40 to get cold McDonald's delivered, so maybe consumers are even dumber than I thought.

Just gotta close it off on both ends<===>

(parens for round ends didn't look good)