Friday or Monday allow us to plan better for longer activities. 3 days makes a weekend trip super smooth and easy to pull off.

Having Wednesday off, I would find it harder to disconnect.

I think a lot of us have a good feeling about early/first employer. But I am not sure we would feel the same if we started that job today. "It was better back in the days" mentality.

Say doctor gave you 4 more weeks to live.

You can now chose to be on life support for 2 more year at the cost of pooping pants and being on drugs. I bet, life support does not sound so bad.

Since I'll likely be leaving this world through the horrors of dementia and alzheimers, I'd take the 4 weeks, because by the end of the 2 years I wouldn't even be me.

Which parts of your body are you willing to let degrade just to continue breathing and reading reddit about stuff that you will never live to see happen anyway?

> Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow “or the day after.” Unless you were a complete coward you wouldn’t kick up a fuss about which day it was—what difference could it make? Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.

I'd take the 4 weeks. Why? Less suffering for myself and my family. Less financial burden for my family. As bonus, get to leave the insanity of this world sooner.

Same. Ripping the bandaid off is always better.

It absolutely does sound bad.

Lower your expenses. Move cheaper. Be more basic Say you can live on 40% of your current salary. Join a startup or smaller company for a smaller salary. Perhaps you can even work 3 days a week? Spend the other 2 in passion projects.

I recently started to make mods for various Unity games. It is a lot of fun, I do it in my pace and the way I want it.

This is so foreign to me, living in Europe. The salary here is in my experience based on where the company is located. Big city, big salary.

Yeah, but our "big salary" is still like half of what they'd pay in the USA.

Perhaps the company doesn't see it worthwhile to argue over peanuts.

This is true, and still true to some extent once you compensate you can't compare the two numbers. There are large costs associated with living in the US like health insurance that just don't exist in the UK where I live.

Paying a given salary in Germany is a lot more expensive for a company than paying the exact same salary in America. There are both more taxes on the employer side and more labor regulations that cost money to comply with. The number of hours worked tends to be different, too.

The wedge between gross and net pay is indeed big in Germany.

Btw, it's getting bigger in the US as well over the least few decades.

Singapore is a place with a smaller gap, and less regulation. That's part of the reason they went from third world to first world.

European here. This happened interviewing with companies that are located in rather well-payed areas, precisely southern germany. :)

Munich has spiralled out of control in this aspect.

Of course there might be exceptions, but isn’t it reasonable to expect that companies in bigger cities have more business and can therefore pay more?

That would only really make sense for the location of the sales office, I guess?

Where you put your developers shouldn't make much of a difference to how much business you have?

However you are up to something: big cities tend to be more productive. That's the reason people and businesses put up with the higher rents and other inconveniences. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration

If someone made "Harry Potter, the untold stories, 10 years later" and it was pure garbage. It would probably also gather 25 million people.

The success of the "Cursed Child" stage show seems an appropriate parallel here.

My company profits millions a year and I can barely get a new keyboard as a top SW developer :) While working for a small startup of 5, I had very nice equipment.

This is great. Gives me a reason to try a new backend language as well.

I was in process with a few us companies but they just refuse to give 6-8 payed vacation weeks :/

Yeah if you are going to work for a US company with US salary, be prepared to take US "vacations". They'll look at you weird if you ever mention that you want to take three weeks off.

That's a lot of time even for European standards. In the countries I've been, typically it's 3-5 weeks plus national holidays.

Minimum number of weeks in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland is 5 weeks. Many employers are offering 6-8 as a perk. Since salaries are gutted by tax, other ways to compensate are used.

Those countries are the very top end of the European market, in terms of worker rights - and a pretty small minority in terms of population.