Ask HN: Would you take a pay cut in exchange for a 4-hour work week?
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Can you elaborate on this question? Are you asking whether people who work 40 hours per week would take a 90% pay cut to work 90% fewer hours, or are you asking a different question?
Too late, can't edit. I actually meant 4-day work week - 32 hours.
I think the real underlying question is about time-money tradeoff.
As for a 4-hour work week, there's a sense in which a work week that is too short will bore you to death. I would take a pay cut in exchange for, say, 30 or 20 hour work week, but 4 hours a week seems extreme. Plus, if you are doing something you enjoy, "work week" doesnt have the same meaning as a traditional 9-5 job.
As for a 4-hour work week, there's a sense in which a work week that is too short will bore you to death. I would take a pay cut in exchange for, say, 30 or 20 hour work week, but 4 hours a week seems extreme. Plus, if you are doing something you enjoy, "work week" doesnt have the same meaning as a traditional 9-5 job.
Assuming you are talking about the Tim Ferris 4 hour workweek (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/) then yes, but that's not really the problem. The problem is the unreliability of the pay when you work for yourself.
4 hrs off less a day != not productive.
Surely certain tasks can be optimized better through automation, processes, technology, etc. It's almost like tell me to work for minimum wage.
Surely certain tasks can be optimized better through automation, processes, technology, etc. It's almost like tell me to work for minimum wage.
I think that I'd just work on other (potentially/hopefully) revenue generating things in the remaining 36-96 working hours, so it's hard to see how it applies...
If the pay cut is proportional, I definitely would. Would give me more time to work on my ideas.
It depends on the percentage of the pay cut?
However, you refer to a 4-hour work week. That's not a lot of time. Assuming that I'll still make at least $300 dollars per week, then yes. Any less, probably not. I still have to eat.