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The current annual inflation rate is 2.97%.
Here[0]. Look at post-2020. The rate might have now reduced a little, but it's still stacked on top of the previous higher inflation since 2020. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=WAVo
It’s been a year ago today I got laid off. I have had a handful in interviews in the past year. The year before I had 5 interviews a week. I’m in Silicon Valley and a software engineer.
That's kind of crazy to me.. what kinda of skillset/experience do you have? I'm still getting regular recruiter spam here in The Netherlands. Even though June/July/August are dead months.
If I get laid off, I'm going to see about a career change. These threads invoke too much anxiety for me.
I’m going through this right now, I used to be a carpenter and a farmer. About 15 years ago, I went into tech to pay for kids in the city. To some extent most of the jobs I find in tech seem to me to be societal busy work. And the people that make those jobs seem to take themselves a bit too seriously. I’m considering moving back to trades work instead of finding another infra job. I’ve had time to get my stuff sorte…
I’m not sure if this is what you’re talking about, but people outside of the technical roles in this industry rarely seem to have the same curiosity and passion developers do. Is it easy to name other industries where this is true? CS is vast and young, and I’ve always found that exciting. The potential for new frontiers, even at lowly engineering applications like ours, made me want to do this work. Yet lots of managers lack even basic curiosity and sometimes make silly, bad decisions as a result. It can be hard to work alongside that.
It depends... I've been working remotely the past few years for about 40-50% above local market rates excluding a fairly long 7-month unemployment (planned on 3 months down, but took much longer). I have been approached a bit (few emails a week) for local, in-office jobs at local market rates. YMMV.
If I get laid off, I'm going to see about a career change. These threads invoke too much anxiety for me.
I’m going through this right now, I used to be a carpenter and a farmer. About 15 years ago, I went into tech to pay for kids in the city. To some extent most of the jobs I find in tech seem to me to be societal busy work. And the people that make those jobs seem to take themselves a bit too seriously. I’m considering moving back to trades work instead of finding another infra job. I’ve had time to get my stuff sorte…
Of course lots of office jobs are busywork by comparison to carpentry and farming.
I'd guess farmers also aren't playing politics, and gaming metrics, for promotions.
Farmers also reap what they sow, to so speak. And don't plan to job hop before the chickens come home to roost, on resume-driven-farming technology choices.
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I’m going through this right now, I used to be a carpenter and a farmer. About 15 years ago, I went into tech to pay for kids in the city. To some extent most of the jobs I find in tech seem to me to be societal busy work. And the people that make those jobs seem to take themselves a bit too seriously. I’m considering moving back to trades work instead of finding another infra job. I’ve had time to get my stuff sorte…
> To some extent most of the jobs I find in tech seem to me to be societal busy work. And the people that make those jobs seem to take themselves a bit too seriously. I’m not sure if this is what you’re talking about, but people outside of the technical roles in this industry rarely seem to have the same curiosity and passion developers do. Is it easy to name other industries where this is true? CS is vast and young,…
A lot of the products genuinely kinda suck, and it just feels like busy work to me sometimes.
I don’t think most of that comes out of tech, it’s product and business picking these directions and features but it’s pretty disheartening none the less.
It feels like recruiters and HR have wedged themselves into being an untouchable block between candidates and hiring managers. Those in the wedge have no incentives for actually connecting candidates to the needs of the employer so the wedge keeps getting larger and stronger. Companies are too scared of their HR departments to stand up to them. They're basically commissars that have a MAD pact with the company should…
And yeah, it's due to government protection and monopoly power. Some country will eventually decide to work for its people and will become a hugely prosperous place out of nowhere, taking everyone by surprise. But everyone else will keep hearing that "it can't work that way here".
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I’m going through this right now, I used to be a carpenter and a farmer. About 15 years ago, I went into tech to pay for kids in the city. To some extent most of the jobs I find in tech seem to me to be societal busy work. And the people that make those jobs seem to take themselves a bit too seriously. I’m considering moving back to trades work instead of finding another infra job. I’ve had time to get my stuff sorte…
> used to be a carpenter and a farmer Of course lots of office jobs are busywork by comparison to carpentry and farming. I'd guess farmers also aren't playing politics, and gaming metrics, for promotions. Farmers also reap what they sow, to so speak. And don't plan to job hop before the chickens come home to roost, on resume-driven-farming technology choices.
Dead. UK, US, CA, EU. Dead.