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Ask HN: Would you switch from full time to part time if you could?

1 pointsby readonthegoappabout 2 years ago
You&#x27;d have to take a 50% pay cut for going from ~40 hrs&#x2F;wk to ~20 hrs&#x2F;wk, and you can discuss whether you would need to be able to keep your health benefits or not, etc.<p>I think there are plenty of pluses and minuses on various levels, but I&#x27;m mostly curious if _you_ would do this right now, if you were benevolent dictator of your own life, and someone asks this question to you today, and you have 24 hours to make a decision.<p>Thanks.

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paulrpottsabout 2 years ago
No, because I couldn&#x27;t afford to meet my family&#x27;s basic monthly expenses after that much of a pay cut. If the pay cut and insurance were not an issue, I&#x27;d do it in a heartbeat.<p>For a while in 2000 I went to six hours a day, paid purely hourly, for some audio driver and desktop application development, for a company that made audio interfaces. It was great, actually. I&#x27;d show up fully energized to work, put in a _focused_ six hours, get a lot done, and leave. I was single and didn&#x27;t need to earn that much to meet my needs. It was not sustainable long-term because of the lack of health insurance, but everything else about it was great.