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Elephants in the room: unfunded mandates, disparate equity, control issues, and deadlines. Ideally, people should support their own work. If I build something and have complete ownership of it, I'll make sure it runs. If I'm the one who's getting the money and career progress, and I'm picking the deadlines, I'll be the "3:00 am guy". It seems fair that it should be that way. On the other hand, if I'm asked to build someone else's idea, to their deadlines, making technical compromises that I wouldn't choose, then I'm not going to be the "3:00 am guy" for shots someone else called. Fuck that shit, life's too short. If you want that from me, either pay a consulting fee ($250+ per hour) or give me serious equity (like, founder levels). Otherwise, That's Not My Job. Salary jobs are for the stability of pay and work (i.e. not being the 3:00am Guy) and for career advancement (resume, respected titles, networking). That's what I'm paying for when I accept a salary 1/10 of what I'm worth to the business. If I'm expected to take on extra duties that don't advance my career, and not getting that stability, then I'm not getting what I paid for. I'll gladly take the negatives of ownership if I get to partake in the positives (autonomy, self-direction, participation in the reward) but expecting me to take only the first is just unreasonable. |