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I found this list on Reddit if you're looking for a full list of companies that are laying employees off, pausing hiring, or still hiring: https://airtable.com/shrpj2r4Kjc4YoMu4/tbl8m95GiuWehnIiT?blo...
Really sorry to everyone who is out of work now :(, I wish I could do more then just give you some links and thoughts but hope this helps. 1. If you're looking to ramp-up your skills Pluralsight is giving away a free month of training this month: https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2020/free-april-month 2. Large companies are still hiring I growth areas, I am not 100% sure but If I was a betting man anything at Google,…
But my company is hiring right now (though, most of the jobs require a clearance). The jobs aren't remote, well.. right now many of them sort of are, but they'll surely revert to on-site again eventually.
I found this list on Reddit if you're looking for a full list of companies that are laying employees off, pausing hiring, or still hiring: https://airtable.com/shrpj2r4Kjc4YoMu4/tbl8m95GiuWehnIiT?blo...
Hope it helps!
I woke up today with a nice surprise from HR. I got laid off. It was the most impersonal and robotic email I received. 20 minutes later all my accounts got disabled, not a chance to even say farewell to my nice co-workers. It sucks. I don't have a ton of savings. Luckily my car is paid off, and I only have student loans left. I was very tempted to inflate my lifestyle after I got a big raise. I didn't do it, otherwis…
My partner's friend had a large number of people let go during a zoom meeting. It was horribly planned, several people showed up 3-5 minutes late each time they had to say "you're laid off" yet again, etc.
Fired officially next week but to be honest it was ongoing before the lockdown;) On the bright side it seems the tech job market is not too much affected here in Paris but we'll see how it goes. Well at least I can now finish some freelance gig that was taking my free time, and it gives me more time to continue learning elixir, I even finally took the time to open-source and deploy a demo of a LiveView game I made in…
You sure? I'd be surprised if even 10% of tech companies were hiring right now, regardless of location ...
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I always found it interesting how many people have taught themselves programming. I was at a customer site a few months ago installing some test hardware and the guy I was working with was their welder, having been an auto mechanic before and we got into a discussion about programming in Python! The best interaction, however, would be the homeless guy I met who used to be a programmer.
I once met an unemployed software engineer who went door to door selling magazine subscriptions.
(I guess that could kinda be a spoiler for an almost 100 year old film?)
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These aren't companies. Most are charities. The Royal Opera House will be fine, the hundreds of smaller music organisations will not.
I see. My point is they'll be different , regardless of the "incorporation format". I.e. the instruments and the people will still be there. Unless people stop going to concerts/performances, well then the equipment goes to the basement.
But the unfortunate corollary is that you cannot just stack up the parts and have a successful production by magic. It takes a lot more than that. The institutions and structures currently doing it season after season have a kind of life of their own, and it's absolutely subject to decay and death. The ecological niche they occupy is extraordinarily harsh, so they're not easily replaced either.
Practically speaking: you need space and equipment. You need artistic direction with taste and vision to hire the right performers and designers and communicate it to them. You need skilled craftsmen to implement the designs, quick-thinking managers to wrangle the logistics, ambitious 2nd assistants to make the coffee. You'll need all this for months before you turn a dollar of revenue. Then you need marketers to bring in an audience, front of house staff to deal with it, professional schmoozers to pry open the rich ones' checkbooks (ticket sales are never enough).
If it turns out the creative vision was too safe, it'll be panned as boring and derivative. If you take a risk and fail, you'll also get eaten alive. So you have to take a real risk, and have it go your way, every time. At any point, one of the key people who held it all together by the seat of her pants could retire to take care of her sick mother. Or a crucial benefactor (public or private) could have a change of heart. Or Walgreens could snatch up the lease on your performance space. Or an influential critic could be in a bad mood. Any one of these things could be the end.
Please do not take performing arts organizations for granted. There are many once-grand theaters and concert halls in this country abandoned and rotting away. Even more that were simply erased. These things hang on to life by a thread in the best of times.