[jobposter1234]

Why are employers (generally) so inflexible with their salaried offers? I've been offered jobs where I really wanted to work, and they wanted me. They offered me 60% of my market value because that was all that was in the budget. If they had let me take Fridays off (for my own consulting work), I would have been fine with this, and they would have been ahead (paying 60% for 80% of my time).

It's such bullshit. Hiring sucks.