A local headhunting outfit just contacted me about a job that would pay $175K at the top end. For the first time in my life, I don’t care. Money is always attractive, but the stress that would come with taking it is no longer acceptable. Free at last, free at last.
Someday, your immortal soul will thank you for allowing it to stay with you once you die.
I think I could do gay porn for $175 K a year. Seriously, what kind of job would you turn down for that kind of coin?
We’re just gonna assume that you’re not gay.
Otherwise it reads like :“I could do porn for $175 K a year”.
Yup.
Ten years ago, I would have gone after it and damn the torpedoes. But it requires a five-year commitment, which would make me 66 years old, and I believe the stress that automatically accompanies a job of that nature (it’s either a CEO or chief operating officer position) would probably kill me. We have plans to pull the plug next spring and take on life on a new level.
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Be grateful you have people handing you $175K jobs on a platter. I can’t find a lousy $50K job in my field, and I’m facing the very real prospect of moving in with my parents after a short sell or possible foreclosure of my house.
I’d turn it down too. Don’t want to take a pay cut.
I’m with Chefguy - not in the sense that I’ve been offered a $175K/year job, but in the sense that I’d probably not take it.
It’s been my experience that jobs that pay that much require you to sell your soul. If I want to work that hard, it’ll only be as CEO of my own business, not working for someone else.
Of course, if someone offered me an easy peasy job making that much, I’d jump on it. But then, Chefguy probably would as well.
Well, you’re about 15 years older than I am then. And so, I still would have the drive to go for it. But good for you for turning it down. When I grow up, I want to be just like you. 
That’s cool. It’s good to hear that you’ll stick to your guns.
resists urge to make a comment on the amount of cash
Yeah, I’d like the money; I just don’t want to work for it. Maybe I could be a writer…
Because everyone knows the average writer is just rollin’ in the dough?
Why yes, of course they are.
I just talked to the headhunter. Turns out it would be as president of one of the construction companies owned by one of the local Alaska Native corporations. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these entities, they discard CEOs and upper management types like used kleenex. I worked for this particular company a few years ago and it was constant pain. If you’re not willing to be ruthless and vindictive, you don’t survive in that environment. In addition, I’d be working for my old boss! No FUCKING way, even if I was interested.
Any chance you could re-word that so it doesn’t sound quite so much like suicidal ideation?
That sounds like an opportunity! Get a nice parachute and a contract that says they can’t bad mouth you unless you actually get convicted of a felony, get hired, don’t show up for work or show up minimally (schedule a LOT of travel to pursue possible business opportunities that never come to fruition), collect paychecks, get fired (they go through managers like kleenex anyway), take your parachute.
There is a way to get paid for that and do nothing.
Exactly–make the commitment knowing you will be kicked out, and collect a year’s worth of the money.
I’m assuming I’ll work until at least 70 (if anyone will employ me) so being done at 62 sounds like heaven.
Sounds exhausting. Besides, they’re wise to all of those sorts of schemes and wouldn’t sign a contract that risky to the company.
Headhunting?
What on earth are we talking about here? Is there some kind of joke that I don’t get?
A headhunter is a search firm employee recruiting folks to fill open positions.
Unless I’m being whooshed.
“Headhunting” is a nickname for “Executive Search” / Recruiting - when someone calls you to see if you are interested in an executive position they are trying to fill, they are “headhunting”…
And yeah, **Chefguy ** - you rationale makes sense.
And **Tapioca Dextrin **- thanks for sharing…