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Eediot Jedi posted:Ah, but if you were a tradie, you wouldn't have a HELP debt. Didn't they change that so that VET courses could be put on hecs?
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ngl I'm thinking about retraining as a sparkie but who the gently caress is going to want an apprentice in their 40s?
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JBP posted:Why do you need any of that to buy a $950,000 house? If you borrowed $800k it's like 4.5k pm even with dogshit interest rates. Local electrician and a part time partner wouldn't break a sweat. My partner and I both earn above the median salary with no kids, and while we would be able to repay 4,500 a month I suspect that would leave us treading water with no ability to generate savings and no ability to pay for childcare and/or have one of us actually leave employment for a while so that we can have kids. And as others have pointed out: these are not dogshit interest rates. Historically they are somewhere between low and average.
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thatbastardken posted:ngl I'm thinking about retraining as a sparkie but who the gently caress is going to want an apprentice in their 40s? There's probably sparkies that would like an older apprentice who doesn't do all the normal stupid young person stuff
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thatbastardken posted:ngl I'm thinking about retraining as a sparkie but who the gently caress is going to want an apprentice in their 40s? Iirc older apprentices are liked because they typically will work all the overtime to pay for houses/families and aren't turning up seedy after a big night. If you were approaching 60s that might change.
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You think you want to be a tradie, but in your 40s working the tools sucks arse. Good luck to you though.
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Well, it's not the tools so much, but just think how pissed off you get when you have to bend over to pick up something you've dropped and then do something like that over and over every hour you're working
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Jul 15, 2023 06:33
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How are things for trade apprenticeships lately anyway? Last I heard there were huge problems with apprentices getting treated as cheap labour and never actually taught meaningfully, just abused until they quit and can be replaced.
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starkebn posted:You think you want to be a tradie, but in your 40s working the tools sucks arse. you're not wrong, but i can't face another call center without killing myself
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Jul 15, 2023 07:11
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have you tried being a computer toucher?
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ATO call centre is chill
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thatbastardken posted:you're not wrong, but i can't face another call center without killing myself learn to code
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Anidav posted:ATO call centre is chill Surprisingly helpful people at the ATO.
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Gorfob posted:Surprisingly helpful people at the ATO. Not when I worked there  Recoome posted:learn to code I am  Ai is going to take my job before I do E: I am also slamming through learning mathematics just because it's neat and I regret forgetting everything since school. I really recommend this play list of you want to learn maths. Short videos, very well explained, topics build on one another. It starts from the very basics and goes on up. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLybg94GvOJ9FoGQeUMFZ4SWZsr30jlUYK Eediot Jedi fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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Eediot Jedi posted:I am As someone who got out of tech support hell a few years back, imo learn to be a BI Developer. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/power-bi-data-analyst-associate/ Do that training for free. Get the cert for $160ish. Do a couple of demo reports on public data to show you can do it, and then you are golden. If you are trying to learn a programming language, dax and M is one of the easier ones to learn while still being fairly powerful, and given the amount of data being generated, they are always going to need people to make sense of it. The maths requirement is substantially less than a quote unquote data analyst, and if you have good soft skills, you will be in high demand.
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NPR Journalizard posted:As someone who got out of tech support hell a few years back, imo learn to be a BI Developer. Cheers will look into that
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Eediot Jedi posted:Cheers will look into that Drop me a PM if you want to chat about anything related, always happy to share info
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NPR Journalizard posted:As someone who got out of tech support hell a few years back, imo learn to be a BI Developer. Working in game development and this free education looks amazing for being able to gather some data myself rather than requesting/waiting for reports. Thanks for linking!
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Anidav posted:ATO call centre is chill Not this time of year it isn't.
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Recoome posted:learn to code Easy poo poo these days, it's computer lego. You just need to learn to plug poo poo together that other people have already written. If/else, for loop, copy paste job done
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SAS and SQL are also remarkably easy to learn and are broadly used in big data applications. In 2020 I did a few of the online training courses in them when I got a job working on a helpdesk after working in the Centrelink call centre and taught myself more using google search and stack overflow, and now I'm a full time programmer working in a program maintenance team - I'd not touched programming in any capacity before (though having knowledge of excel formulas was a surprisingly good foundation).
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Are you me? I was a DBA in the ATO who left to go to a game developer which is now circling the drain financially.
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ATO call centre is generally good because there's no real targets, you just got to be able to find the correct answer to some query and springboard elsewhere in the APS from that. 90 percent of call centres are poo poo but ATO is pretty good because even at tax time the worst case scenario is being stumped at a question and these days every team has an inbuilt support aps4 and when they get stumped you have a national support hotline so you hunt down the answers and give it to the client and that's the end of the call. It also isn't gonna get eaten by ai anytime soon because of how much they want human input, human checks and robodebt means the machines will be on a leash for some time yet at an APS level. No sales targets, no worries. Anidav fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Are you me? I was a DBA in the ATO who left to go to a game developer which is now circling the drain financially. Dara analytics division at services Australia. Probably going to just stay here until I retire as I hit 10 years in May and that sweet sweet lsl is just too tempting.
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NPR Journalizard posted:....if you have good soft skills, you will be in high demand. This is the key. Speaking as a manager who hires software engineers, I will ignore the poo poo out of a lack of technical experience if you can demonstrate an ability to not be a loving oval office.
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JBP posted:Why do you need any of that to buy a $950,000 house? If you borrowed $800k it's like 4.5k pm even with dogshit interest rates. Local electrician and a part time partner wouldn't break a sweat. JBP going for the coveted "Three Olives of AusPol" award. edit: loving lol Breetai posted:You're like an Aussie 3olives only somehow more annoying. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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A solid qld moment in the fadden by-election yesterday.
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With all that's going on in this country and this world is nice to see the Boomers that spring up on my Facebook are just rabid about not being able to find Fantales. One did, but it was $6.95 for the bag, and off we go for a collective frothing at the mouth. If it wasn't for the ability to keep touch with family without having to talk to them I'd have joined everyone else running a mile from that growing Dead zone....
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hambeet posted:A solid qld moment in the fadden by-election yesterday. Liberal party national growth is coming from 18-34 year olds and women.
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hambeet posted:A solid qld moment in the fadden by-election yesterday. The Gold Coast basically Little Sydney, there was no way that wasn't going to the LNP
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The Gold Coast is pretty much the worst place in the country. Not just in terms of politics or demographics but to visit as well.
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The Lord Bude posted:The Gold Coast is pretty much the worst place in the country. Not just in terms of politics or demographics but to visit as well.
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I’m not a beach person at all but there are so many nicer beach adjacent places you could be going instead of the Gold Coast. Noosa, Stradbroke, Moreton all easy to get to from Brisbane and vastly superior. Literally the only thing the Gold Coast is good for is hosting Bucks Parties for Bogans.
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Been to the gold coast a couple times just for the theme parks, and seeing the beach I'm like 'That's it?' It's hilariously mediocre. There's better beaches literally everywhere else in Australia besides inland.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Been to the gold coast a couple times just for the theme parks, and seeing the beach I'm like 'That's it?' It's hilariously mediocre. There's better beaches literally everywhere else in Australia besides inland. i've heard the beaches were much nicer before all the development hosed the place up
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Non Compos Mentis posted:https://twitter.com/heritage_why/status/1680432271231447040 Feel free to buy and hold all the heritage houses.
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Non Compos Mentis posted:https://twitter.com/heritage_why/status/1680432271231447040 lol i didn't know that exception existed. i wonder how many properties across melb have full heritage protections that includes the inside? i thought the vast majority of heritage overlays were purely external facades and poo poo like 'neighbourhood character' and whatever.
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Recoome posted:The Gold Coast basically Little Sydney, there was no way that wasn't going to the LNP doubling down with a swing towards the qld brand. n o i c e
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