Not full time though right? This 1-2 week we keep referring to is if you were focused full time on it (and again being generous here…) This project start date is the same as YOE in the market, it’s a signal but not really a good one.
You might’ve missed in my reply above but I did put that assumption up there. What you describe is just a very common flow of iterating, happens in most companies that are not a giant corporate (I am sure you are familiar with waterfall/agile methodologies so no point referring to this).
I don’t understand how you get any points across. What untrue fact am I focusing on? I might as well just say your proposal is invalid and pat myself in the back that I made a good point?
I put out a crap app to demo you that setting something up is effortless and scraped some initial data just to see whether what you said about the complexities of looking into the Governance are true but turns out they are not. In fact it’s extremely easy to get all the governance history out as long as you can afford what you need to query (no clue if you go over the free API limits or not).
That is not really for you but more to show other users what can be done in minimal time because non-devs have no clue what effort it really takes. Maybe if vibe coding takes over people will be more familiar with it but I really don’t expect anything out of it.
I mean, once you reach lead level that’s essentially how it goes? Your background is very vague so I have no idea what type of company you’ve worked at but I can tell you at Staff level in FAANG, which I am familiar with, you do that every day. You have a domain and then find problems and solve them, not everything is prescribed.
Overall, as per your proposal, you are not being hired as solely as a dev so why should you be paid a full dev salary?
Just nitpicking on one point (I don’t want to write an essay on something that already passed and it’s a waste of my and your focus):
Do you know how vague start getting maintained is? It could literally mean just make sure the repo doesn’t get deleted and you’d fulfill that goal. There is no roadmap presented so really how is that accountability? Again if you have posted the specifics in the thread somewhere I didn’t read it. Similar to, hopefully, most users I only read the initial proposal.
Happy to agree to disagree, I personally don’t see it.
Anyway I have a bad compulsion of having to answer points made that I see as iffy so I’ll try my best to stop. The one point I’d want to highlight again is that the proposal is misleading by nature. You cannot, with good intentions, say in the proposal you are full time and then have another 70% full time job. Not only is it not healthy for you, it’s not what the vast majority of users would expect of a fulltime. This would be sensible if there is a roadmap and you can measure your deliverables. That way, regardless of time spent, you can tell what works.
This is also just you, I have no idea about the other 2 in the proposal.
Do you think it’s fair I market myself as doing a full time job but then be holding 2 other jobs? That’s the initial trigger for my response by the way as I mentioned before when I was reading of some tales in r/overemployed.
One point I didn’t make in this thread yet is that this would make a lot more sense if you are being hired full time. I’d probably have almost no qualms about it and seeing the 3 month as a probation period. What is a waste of time/resources is someone coming in for 3 months and then disappearing (which hopefully is not the case as you say in your long term vision). Hopefully you can see a tiny bit from a third party perspective how this looks closer to a cash grab and making use of the funds available but maybe you genuinely believe you are being underpaid for this.
Personal opinion is that this only works in the DAO. I am quite certain if you were a consultant trying to pitch this to a client that is using their money you’d never get it through.
As for your replies @SailorJupiter, no point spending time on you as you are clearly biased one side and can’t discuss the actual topic. Konstantinos, unlike you, is making reasonable points from their perspective. It just so happens we both disagree which is more than fair. Discussing in the open is for the benefits of others not me or them so I am not really going to entertain your comments because you are here not to add value but just ignite the discussion on fire.
I mean I would’ve just preferred if all this info was out in the open and not hidden here. I wouldn’t say they are nefarious or anything. Two opposite thoughts can happily coexist. What I want is for other users to also be able to see the two sides of the coin and not just blindly follow the crowd.
All I wanted to see when I first joined this forum is for people to actual engage in some thinking and not focus on the money. I think throughout these last months I have just evidence of otherwise again and again which is why I will withdraw from it.
Understandable, in the end people need to pay bills and not everyone is in a fortunate position to look beyond it.
As I said a few times before, no hard feelings and best of luck @Konstantinos. I hope no other point comes out before my compulsion makes me reply again 