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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Not everyone is you.
There are plenty of people, just like worker bees who prefer a pay check versus scrambling for jobs every day/week/month, who would enjoy just getting a pay check and not having to worry about chasing down more gigs. Some people prefer the 'opportunity' to make more money while others simply want 'stability' of a weekly paycheck. No additional thought required.
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Except that he's asking for a "high" level programmer, which ultimately means a senior programmer, and anybody who's at that stage are either snagged up and have no intentions of leaving where they currently are, or they work for themselves and would require a lot more than $100k/yr and paying for their relocation to take it.
I currently do not make even close to 100k/yr but my skills are at that level.. Why do I not make that much but turn down such a job? Because the joys of working for myself and not for someone else far outweigh making 100k/yr.
Many people in my position could make more with such a job offer than we do now, but we're not right now planners, we're future planners. At such a level of pay, I highly doubt there's any wiggle room for raises... I'm 99% sure that if I took such a job, I'd be making that 100k/yr my whole time there, whereas right now, I may not be making that much, but in a year or 2 I could be, and I am not stuck working 9-5 for someone else putting all my skills into making them rich just for a "stable paycheck".
Our skills are in high enough demand that it's not hard to come by that "stable paycheck".