He was willing to work for a lower salary or in a position with less prestige, but everyone said he was overqualified.
He mostly stayed home with their two pre-teen children while she worked for a lower Manhattan-based accounting firm that offered tax advice.
Startups often expect their employees to work for a lower salary in anticipation of larger equity rewards down the line, but this limits the available hiring pool.
So a full payroll tax holiday means more take home pay for people working for a living, and lower costs for business to help keep prices and inflation down, so sales can go up and we can finally create those 20 million private sector jobs we desperately need.
In 2013 he described how the London HQ – once so successful he'd felt moved to promise "something back" – was in fact effectively working for a higher power in a lower tax zone.
Such is Facebook's prominence that banks are willing to work for a much lower fee than usual.
While Dutton denied on Monday misleading the parliament about his use of ministerial discretion in the granting of tourist visas to au pairs, including one working for a former Queensland police colleague, the lower house Greens MP Adam Bandt said the minister has a case to answer.
When she started the school, she said, she agreed to work for $88,000, "a lowered salary because it was my baby".
People are working for much lower wages than they should be because they need to get by".
