Archived entries for Thoughts on Life

Pay Me For My Work, Not My Time

As I have said before, I recently switched companies. One thing that I used to hate about my old job was when I would finish work too early and have nothing to do for the rest of the day. I found a much similar situation on my first project with my new job. I am a consultant for a small company, which pretty much means we work as sub contractors with larger companies. However, I don’t feel that the problem of pay for time rather then pay for work is unique to my field. I talk to a lot of people about this issue and it seems to a problem across multiple industries. Now the problem does not really apply to people that are hourly employees, they are explicitly paid for their time, I am talking about salaried employees.

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Intro to real life

After you hear that cliche speech in mid may that ends with something like: “today is the first day of the rest of your life”;  After the president of your university, the guest speaker and a host of other people finish giving their speeches;  you have this great feeling that you finally finished undergrad.  So begins your entry into the real world.

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