Can you leverage the offer to ask for a raise at your current job?

Potentially, but I'm not going to. I'm EXTREMELY lucky to be in the position that I don't NEED the money. Sure, I'd LIKE the money, but I don't need it. And my current job offers me a LOT of freedom (which is what I'd lose if I went tot he new job, ergo not being as fun) with being able to do stuff while "working" and just make up the time later since I (mostly) manage servers, and they don't really care when I do the stuff, as long as it gets done. So the freedom and the early schedule so that I can still have a social life (as much as it's possible with covid hanging around) after work, it's worth not having more money.

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Yes, the job would be assisting with customer environments, and you never know what you might run into at some companies. Probably wouldn't be COMMON, but I've certainly heard of such stories from people who have to help troubleshoot and fix customer environments that teams left and the new team didn't know how to manage linux so just "kept the lights on" until something suddenly went wrong 5 years later.

I just finished reading A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder, and that describes the main character, Paul English. At the end of the book, he's a semi-retired venture capitalist, teaching entrepreneurship at MIT by day (scouting for talent) and driving budget Uber by night.

It's not a bad state to be in.

@Timothy because you said you DON'T NEED money - just share some of it with us. I NEED money. But I say I found question interesting but rather in way can you cheat others VM is physical - perhaps not good choice of word - machine. I would treat 'old good Slackware' as compliment

To be specific, I didn't say I don't need money, I said I don't need THE money. AKA, I can survive perfectly fine off my existing job. The raise this job would offer would be nice to have, but it's not NECESSARY for my being able to keep up with my bills and be able to eat 3 meals a day.

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I'm wondering what caused you to look in the first place.

Not that I don't have my own thoughts/stories, but I erased them versus share too much noise. In summary, I generally do not look voluntarily. I have had a few long duration jobs (5-10+) as well as some briefer ones (1-4), so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the whole subject.

I got emailed about the job every day for 2 weeks, and it was an interesting sounding job. Linux administration direct hire full time w/ benefits for more money than I am making. Have to check that type of job out IMO.

...so the orderly queue may as well disperse...

I was in the same happy position but in reverse - I could afford to go to a lower paying but more rewarding day job. So I did, and never regretted it.

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I was in the same position, I had a job with a very high degree of flexibility, and I kind of, was satisfied. Meanwhile, I was looking for a job I found interesting, I got it, and I dared to accept. Fuck it, life is too short to not try something new

I never did regret it, it turned out this job was even better, even though the flexibility is degraded, I found better colleagues and other stuff I was not even thinking about.

Money and convenience issues aside, and being THAT time of the year, I think it's good to be thankful for Slackware. A great system with all the advantages we came to know, and which makes you learn Linux and Unix instead of the distro itself. With Slackware it's easy to have the knowledge required for job positions such as Timothy's story.

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Well said. I would make this Slackware slogan.