Oh come on, this is funny. Don’t downvote humor you old farts. I’m old enough to remember when we got internet. I was 14 and had to beg mom to let us use the free AOL trial.

Once that month was up, we were hooked faster than if we had visited a Chinese opium den in the 1800s.

Edit: wow I sure fucked up that first draft. I was 14, not 24.

You’re not misreading. It was an attempt at commentary on the current state of the job market, specifically at fintechs. This is not the same job market from even just a couple years ago, at least iny experience of it. I realize two different people within the same subset of the market can have markedly different experiences . But for me, I can’t even get someone to talk to me beyond a couple of recruiter contacts which went nowhere once the hiring manager got involved.

I’m not looking for a better job necessarily, just a different one. I’m in a volatile industry which is beset by a reliance on utilization percentage to justify continued employment. There is a level of constant anxiety to every aspect of the job and it’s driving me slowly insane. Or maybe not slowly.

I love everything about the way this written.

Kudos, sir.

This is the answer.

It’s not AI, it’s a super searcher. Once you ask it to start making decisions, or choices for you, is when you’ve lost the plot. I use it like that, just as a tool because it can aggregate disparate data much faster than me alone. I spend the time saved checking what it tells me, but I’ve found quite useful in limited situations with solid guardrails.

I feel for you, and I hope this works out for you in the end. I’m in the private sector, and have been actively searching and applying for a year, and I’ve spoken to two recruiters. I’m pretty well qualified for the roles I’ve been applying to, but it’s a fairly niche skill set so it’s been maybe 70-80 applications over the course of the past year.

I’ve never been happier to have been out of the government; I left a few years ago.

Speaking of which:

https://archive.is/5QFkF

Here’s the article without signing up or whatever I would have to do to read it.

I’ll be super shocked when we find out the reluctance to use the contingency funds has everything to do with those funds already being “reallocated” elsewhere.

I want this on a shirt