notsurenymore

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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> How much money do you need? Obviously this is a tough question because CoL can vary a lot, but I just want enough to live a middle class lifestyle covering living costs and having some spending money to enjoy, but preferably not someth
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> give whatever comes up a try I wish I could, but whenever I see jobs like this, they always require years of experience I don’t have or years of education I don’t have.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I actually had some people ask me to consult for them earlier this year, but they ghosted me faster than many full time jobs have.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> The biggest challenge for me is what a coworker once called the “golden handcuff” The one silver lining is that this market seems to have broken the golden handcuffs on me. I’m not incredibly driven by money, and would gladly take a jo
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> I'd also make sure that your current negative feelings RE: the job search aren't being transferred to programming as a whole. The right tech job may make you love programming again. Possibly, but if I can’t even get a job doi
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Unfortunately most of my friends were in a worse position than me prior to the layoffs. Most are more educated than me, but work menial office jobs that don’t pay well. I remember talking to someone working in insurance claims processing, o
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Honestly that would sound great if retraining wasn’t an overly expensive time consuming risk.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
You wouldn’t even get that with most white collar knowledge work.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
From what I’ve read, it’s not one’s that are great. Even five years ago before LLMs were big I remember seeing this debate and it was usually jobs like caregivers that were described as likely safe from AI automation. In more recent times,
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