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InediblePenguin posted:what the unemployment rate means: "Employed people are those who did any work at all for pay or profit in the reference week" You know they collect different measurements of unemployment, right? The people you are talking about would mostly be counted as un/underemployed by U6, which is also near historical lows: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE Kagrenak fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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This is my new favorite boomer job hunting advice. Have you tried just walking into MIT, looking Noam Chomsky in the eye and firmly shaking his hand?
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Cerekk posted:Indeed.com shows dozens of open postings advertising $200+ on the high end in Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Columbus and Detroit, and high 100s in Indianapolis, Des Moines, St. Louis, and Omaha. Dozens in such a large metro selection isn't really the evidence you think. Indeed.com as well as LinkedIn.com as well as _____ estimate salary bands for positions based on costal salaries. 160 is about what you'll top out at in a salary band structure before going into management. But you know, the latter half of your statement disproves your own point with the exception of working at Epic (lmao), Chicago Finance, or the Ohio massive data centers. I would be paid at least 50k more if I lived on the coasts, unsurprisingly a lot of negotiations fall when I ask for an indeed or LinkedIn estimated salary with a local company.
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The Moon Monster posted:This is my new favorite boomer job hunting advice. Have you tried just walking into MIT, looking Noam Chomsky in the eye and firmly shaking his hand? not too firmly or it might disintegrate. he may have in fact died while i was typing this post
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Cerekk posted:the bitter musings of some randos that for all we know are unqualified for the positions they're applying for. Fair
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I think the truth is somewhere along the lines of low unemployment and also a broken hiring system.
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dreezy posted:not too firmly or it might disintegrate. he may have in fact died while i was typing this post So there's an opening, is what you're saying?
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You have a PHD in data science? Maybe you could get a job as a sports gambling bookie or as a data entry intern.
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Salt Fish posted:You have a PHD in data science? Maybe you could get a job as a sports gambling bookie or as a data entry intern. My grass needs cutting. Well, it doesn't. But if you give me your resume, I might call you when it does.
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Salt Fish posted:You have a PHD in data science? Maybe you could get a job as a sports gambling bookie or as a data entry intern. P-H-D data ... science? You mean like a prompt engineer?
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Data jockey! Works for tips!
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Occasionally itd have a car but normally the ads on the firetv cube home page would be things that are streaming, so at least vaguely relevant today it was a Carl's Jr ad for chicken wraps.. somehow this enrages me more than usual
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AARD VARKMAN posted:Occasionally itd have a car but normally the ads on the firetv cube home page would be things that are streaming, so at least vaguely relevant  I saw that too.
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:Dozens in such a large metro selection isn't really the evidence you think. Indeed.com as well as LinkedIn.com as well as _____ estimate salary bands for positions based on costal salaries. 160 is about what you'll top out at in a salary band structure before going into management. But you know, the latter half of your statement disproves your own point with the exception of working at Epic (lmao), Chicago Finance, or the Ohio massive data centers. If there's even a single person in an entire 12-state area making $200k in an ops job, then the outrageous claim that "$200k ops jobs don't exist in the Midwest" is provably wrong. The existence of "only" dozens of job postings for those jobs advertising salaries in the 200s is plenty, since even just one proves the counterfactual.
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If you make even $100k you are far, far ahead of workers in most industries
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Even volunteer work has ghost positions now.
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The salary bands shown are generally the range that everyone in the department (including management) makes and someone being hired is guaranteed to be on the low end of it unless it's a management role. If the salary bands for an ops job posting is $60k-$200k that means the department director makes 200k and everyone else makes 60-70k, middle management is probably around 80-85k and exempt Beyond the pay not being what's listed on indeed there's also the fact that if indeed has 4 dozen postings that means there's one real position that's actually available for someone to get, that they need to compete with every single other person looking for an ops role in that city to get. You absolutely cannot judge the job market based on job postings since only around 1.6% of postings are real openings that the company wants to hire someone for these days. And that's not even a made up number that's straight from the bureau of labor statistics. (Though that number is from 3 months ago I don't know how different it is right now). The rest of the postings are resume farming for the company to use if they ever find themselves wanting to hire someone in the future, fake postings with no intent to hire meant to to improve team morale without actually crewing more, or employers holding out for literal "dream candidates" who are massively overqualified and talented but willing to work for a fraction of the market rate. And these are the things that employers actually admit to to the BLS that they're posting job openings for, there are other things going on like literal illegitimate data harvesting for spam calling purposes, and companies that don't exist looking to hire someone to start a business and do 100% of the work while the person who posted the job gets all of the profits (this one is particularly prevalent in marketing jobs right now. Tons of "marketing firms" that don't actually exist who want to hire "marketing specialists" to build the entire business from the ground up including sourcing all their own clients, taking on all of the liability and workload and only getting a small $40k salary) deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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skooma512 posted:COVID was such a great excuse to make everything worse and take stuff away. As if the fitting rooms were any more dangerous than being in the store in the first place The car dealerships and oil change places in my area used to provide doughnuts, fruit, and coffee to customers in the waiting area. They stopped providing it when the pandemic started. They never came back, and I'd be willing bet everything i own that they never will.
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I finally got instagram to stop putting anything but cat videos on my main feed. The more I interacted with posts in order to block them, the more instagram would think I was wanting to see that content. So when I cat vid came up, I interacted with it and trained it to only serve me that. They’re also incredibly inoffensive and occasionally cute so whatever. The explore page is beyond saving though, I stopped using it years ago because it stopped serving me pics and started serving me marketplace ads and reels. I noticed if you have a connection of friends’ stories you want to see, tapping on the rightmost friend and working “backwards” to the left avoids ads, for now. I’d delete this stupid app but I communicate with more distant friends and green-bubblers there. *sigh* buglord fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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ghost emoji posted:Thank you for this recommendation - I just helped him install Thunderbird and it loads great! Holy poo poo. What're the odds of someone opening a game store in the same neighborhood as that girl from the blind date who never called back?!
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Baffling how a piece of software designed to hallucinate information could ever hallucinate information. Someone should look into that
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GABA ghoul posted:Baffling how a piece of software designed to hallucinate information could ever hallucinate information. Someone should look into that I heard a sponsor ad on NPR this morning about an AI company whose AI doesn't hallucinate. Basically "our AI doesn't do what you've heard about the other AIs." I'm like, yeah right.
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GABA ghoul posted:Baffling how a piece of software designed to hallucinate information could ever hallucinate information. Someone should look into that https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/rhyming-ai-powered-clock-sometimes-lies-about-the-time-makes-up-words/
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Salt Fish posted:You have a PHD in data science? Maybe you could get a job as a sports gambling bookie or as a data entry intern. The moral of the story is not to do a PhD.
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cat botherer posted:There’s not really phds in data science. It’s not actually a field, but just basically a job title with vibes of computer-heavy statistics. Most employers just want a PhD in whatever quantitative-heavy field, although you need previous DS experience for any DS job nowadays. As PhD holder, I agree. Don't do it. and if you're going to ignore everyone and do it anyways, congratulations. That's the drive you need to maybe complete a PhD.
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DUIcycle is a good one. not a bad time to get a DUI I guess, I see a lot of nice electric bikes on the other hand, i was at Aztalan State Park, a series of Mississippian indian mounds, and had to call in the cops cuz come kids were using the sites as ramps with their electric motorbikes
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TotalLossBrain posted:As PhD holder, I agree. Don't do it. somehow this reminds me of my high school internship at Hewlett-Packard. I started out as a gofer for the testing/QA division, but I was very quickly moved into a hybrid role helping the actual design engineers on the floor. I clearly remember a group of them razzing/encouraging me, saying "Ok look, the EE BS isn't that hard, but you need to get into a good school and your grades matter. Once you get done there, its basically another four years for your EE MS, and its really hard but you're smart, you'll be fine. Once thats all done, you can come work with us!  " Hewlett-Packard shuttered that plant a year later, spinning all that crap off into Agilent, and I decided that computers was the career for me.
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TotalLossBrain posted:As PhD holder, I agree. Don't do it. can you please send this post back in time sixteen years, thx
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When I was a teenager I used to work on a horse farm. I did whatever needed to be done, most of it hard physical labor. Repair fences, clean poo poo out of the stables, shovel gravel into wheelbarrows and move them around. The old man who owned the place was cool, but his wife always complained that I wasn’t working fast enough. There were a lot of horse people who ranged from just plain odd to hostile and mean. Horses charged at me sometimes, and a backhoe I was in nearly tipped over and killed me. I made a hundred dollars a day for each 7-4pm day. I’ve also worked in a magnet factory where I glued pieces of metal to magnets for 8 hours a day. The worst job I have ever had was teaching English at an American public high school.
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cat botherer posted:There’s not really phds in data science. It’s not actually a field, but just basically a job title with vibes of computer-heavy statistics. Most employers just want a PhD in whatever quantitative-heavy field, although you need previous DS experience for any DS job nowadays.
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RDM posted:Plenty of degrees (undergrad and grad) in Data Science now, from departments or centers for data science.
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TotalLossBrain posted:Vacant professorships will be filled with Quad-Adjunct Voltrons 101 classes are going to be taught remotely by AI-generated video.
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Our local vet now has a voicemail message saying they are no longer accepting cancellations due to weather. Snow storm for the appointment you booked last week? Too bad, pay up!
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Professor Shark posted:Our local vet now has a voicemail message saying they are no longer accepting cancellations due to weather. Snow storm for the appointment you booked last week? Too bad, pay up! I'm willing to bet they'd lose if it ever went to court, but still... what...??
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Poor WILDTURKEY101, thought of schoolchildren and wanted to die.
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lol you cannot create a new contact in iPhone from received text message. It used to be a default feature. I asked someone to text me specifically so I could create them as a contact. Spent 5 minutes looking how to do it. Went to apple forums where everyone has this issue. One helpful suggestion is to make a screen shot and then import the screen shot as the new contact photo, and then manually type in the number. LOL. Truly amazing Apple. I know that it is I who have failed you, since I cannot figure out the brilliance of this change.
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Update, found the "new and improved" way to do it: In the text, click the phone number. Then click "info". Then scroll down through several blank, gray screens, and there's the option! Apologies, Apple, I now realize those blank gray screens are time I can focus on breathing meditation.
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Apple: It just works!
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