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I recommend getting so far away as to be on another continent. Working remote for US tech, from a country with socialised healthcare, while getting American figgies is a sweet deal if you can get it.
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ahaha yes nz used to have a “brain drain” where our brightest left for bigger $$ overseas but now nz is seeing this reverse phenomenon where our brightest are moving back and also other brain-boxes are coming here, except they’re not coming here to look for work, they’re coming, already with jobs earning big US dollars, but spending it in our economy. kinda good I suppose
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Feb 26, 2021 00:13
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startupland is p much a strict subset of figgieland
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Feb 26, 2021 00:24
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Chopstick Dystopia posted:I recommend getting so far away as to be on another continent.  little tougher to manage with the pandemic and every company realizing employees can sit anywhere though, hard to justify a relocation
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Feb 26, 2021 09:36
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echinopsis posted:ahaha yes If NZ had a Visa for that I'd do it in a second.
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Feb 27, 2021 01:29
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Hughlander posted:If NZ had a Visa for that I'd do it in a second. australia does but  at moving to a country that has had citywide outbreaks of racial violence in the 21st century; australia is a chud dreamland
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Feb 27, 2021 02:38
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Corla Plankun posted:australia does but is this a joke or are you not in the US cause like...that’s many major American cities in the past 4 years
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Saw an application site today that required you to upload a college transcript for a senior engineer position 
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CarForumPoster posted:is this a joke or are you not in the US cause like...that’s many major American cities in the past 4 years yeah absolutely don't move here either, this place sucks rear end
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Corla Plankun posted:australia does but calling cronulla citywide is a bit strong, it was a park in a bogan suburb.
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Feb 27, 2021 07:55
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i dont know what a cronulla is and i dont care, australia can huff my jorts
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Corla Plankun posted:i dont know what a cronulla is and i dont care, australia can huff my jorts to be Australian it should be “huff my stubbies”
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Feb 27, 2021 16:42
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every like 6 months or so i remember australia exists and that's kind of a trip
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Feb 28, 2021 06:35
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australia is big mate
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Mar 1, 2021 09:25
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people in australia are attractive coz its a known fact that bad boys are hot and they are a criminal colony
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so what's your excuse
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lmfao 2% increase time to spruce the resume and gently caress off into the sunset.
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Hughlander posted:If NZ had a Visa for that I'd do it in a second. same but the housing situation there is hosed and I would feel like poo poo coming in and being an agent of gentrification
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KidDynamite posted:same but the housing situation there is hosed and I would feel like poo poo coming in and being an agent of gentrification on some level you have look after yourself vs being in the minority voting against your own interests for the sake of everyone else’s. for better or for worse i’m slowly moving toward the looking after myself I mean they have immigration numbers. if it’s not you it’s literally someone else, and if that was your only reason, it achieves nothing outside of letting someone else do it instead of you. housing is hosed, but it’s hosed everywhere, and while our govt is dragging its heels, at least I have faith given how often were rated extremely highly for lack of corruption that change is actually possible, compared to america voting in dems and surprised pikachu face what they’re just the same????
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KidDynamite posted:same but the housing situation there is hosed and I would feel like poo poo coming in and being an agent of gentrification unless you are a billionaire you should not blame yourself for gentrification
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gentrification is a policy failure so of course the usual suspects are trying to pin the blame on individual action just like everything else
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i am gonna not read any of that poo poo peeps wrote and just say expropriate the land and build 50 story soulless concrete apartments on it
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Sapozhnik posted:sure smells like landlords in here all of a sudden it’s a land lord or get land lorded world out there
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Mar 5, 2021 04:26
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what’s a good resource for getting advice about where to apply and how to sell myself if I don’t know what I want to do besides leave my current job?
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figure out your Unique Selling Proposition. that will help narrow down the field of what to apply for and how to frame your skillset
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i'd just look at job listings and see what looked fun. if you're not quitting until you get a job might as well apply for poo poo whether you're qualified or not
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echinopsis posted:it’s a land lord or get land lorded world out there 
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the middle ground .. be your own land lord.. hmm it might work but you might also work until the day you croak idk I used to have ideals, but idk if I can afford to anymore
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Found myself typing out a venting/pity post in the tech bubble thread's current discussion, but thought it was more appropriate here. I'm applying to jobs in NYC and having a hard time with the constant BS. None of my professional experience is in web dev or has been a minor project 3+ years ago. It feels like I'm locked out of 95% of the job postings I've seen and applied to. I've had two interviews go from talking to a recruiter and them telling me that the company has totally hired smart people with minimal web experience. Then when I went on to speak to the engineer the calls lasted less than 5 minutes and they basically asked why I even bothered applying. The spirit of the thread is alive and well. Pure strain garbage.
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Steve Jorbs posted:Found myself typing out a venting/pity post in the tech bubble thread's current discussion, but thought it was more appropriate here. are you considering finance? there are surprising pockets of chill back office jobs that don't primarily touch web stuff. e: also my old company is not perfect but i'd be astonished if you had that particular problem https://flatiron.com/careers/open-positions/ raminasi fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Steve Jorbs posted:Found myself typing out a venting/pity post in the tech bubble thread's current discussion, but thought it was more appropriate here. this post is ambiguous. are you trying to get into web dev or are you following postings that don't mention web dev at all and suddenly spring it on you once you actually talk to someone on the team?
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raminasi posted:are you considering finance? there are surprising pockets of chill back office jobs that don't primarily touch web stuff. counterpoint: back office finance is a cluster gently caress of outdated software, manual processes, arbitrary deadlines and a management approach that sees it as nothing but a cost center
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PIZZA.BAT posted:this post is ambiguous. are you trying to get into web dev or are you following postings that don't mention web dev at all and suddenly spring it on you once you actually talk to someone on the team? Outside of the handful of roles that are a better fit for my experience I've just been shotgun applying to stuff and I fully expect most of them to never respond back, but why go through all the effort of scheduling a call with the engineer as if there was going to be a real interview? There's a non-zero amount of effort in preparing and anticipating for that. The rejection could have been an email. I didn't need a dressing down from some nerds. The fact that it happened twice within 3 days is what cheesed me off too.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:counterpoint: back office finance is a cluster gently caress of outdated software, manual processes, arbitrary deadlines and a management approach that sees it as nothing but a cost center that's lots of jobs in general, and besides, i was very intentional about not saying "all" i originally ruled out finance when i started looking for nyc jobs and reversing that decision has worked out very well for me
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:counterpoint: back office finance is a cluster gently caress of outdated software, manual processes, arbitrary deadlines and a management approach that sees it as nothing but a cost center yeah but if you sell that outdated software the margins are fat and the work environment is mostly sane adults hmu if anyone wants a job at a financial software vendor
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qirex posted:yeah but if you sell that outdated software the margins are fat and the work environment is mostly sane adults hmu if anyone wants a job at a financial software vendor over/under 6.5 figgies?
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raminasi posted:that's lots of jobs in general, and besides, i was very intentional about not saying "all" yeah I mean I have been working in finance IT for 10+ years and it has its good points, such as: * turning up hungover being generally ok * swear as much as you like nobody gives a poo poo * every department hates every other department so you get a high level of team cohesion (but good luck getting those fuckers in Ops to do anything for you) * there are a lot of idiots and nothing ever gets fixed so you can look really good just by being able to do basic poo poo like query a database * pay is generally good (results may vary)
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hobbesmaster posted:over/under 6.5 figgies? not faang but the benefits are good. highly regional I'd imagine as well, our umbrella holding company overlords have offices all over the place
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:yeah I mean I have been working in finance IT for 10+ years and it has its good points, such as: in my previous consulting life i had to deal with *a lot* of prickly ops guys but man finance ops guys really are a level beyond
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