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gurt

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  1. That is true in my experience too. There are emerging roles via tech that Liberal Arts backgrounds have a fair amount of utility in.
  2. this shows that 8% are social sciences and history, 6% is psychology, visual and performing arts is 5% and communications is 5%. That's nearly a quarter that are varying levels of bullshit. Of course many of those folks go on to have successful careers, like myself, a history and geography major. But I found my way into tech and learned a lot on the job. I can't honestly attribute all that much of my degree to doing this. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively, I suppose. But that is a pretty nebulous ROI for 50k in debt.
  3. Where does the 5% come from? That seems pretty low… Also I think the point is that much of the anecdotes here about getting a good job with non-STEM/specialized degrees/whatever are becoming increasingly less relevant. A 45 year olds experience is not relevant to a 21 year olds in todays competitive landscape, where every kid their age has a degree. Not to mention taking that bet saddled with 50k+ of debt.
  4. Go swing a stick downtown and you'll hit a "head of a digital agency"
  5. add zoom to the tech layoffs (including a good friend of mine) https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/zoom-layoffs-impact-15-of-staff/
  6. Yeah was about to post layoffs.fyi is a pretty good source for tech layoffs. Tech recruiters were definitely making bank, even though it is a job that almost anybody could do. It is such a boom time job, 2020-2022 everybody was hiring so much that every person "breaking into tech" was either in recruiting or sales, with the former making over 6 figures to DM people on LinkedIn.
  7. anecdotally, it seems like 50% of them are recruiters
  8. my first vehicle (2006) was a 1984 Chevy C10, not unlike the below but not nearly as nice I loved that thing, feels about as wide as it is long. We sold it for around $500 when it started having rust in the fuel tank, which my dad and I both regret to this day. These things are selling for 30k plus now.
  9. Can those of you who drove into work today name your employers? Would like to avoid ever working for them.
  10. maybe when he was a rookie: https://nba.nbcsports.com/2021/05/13/shaquille-oneal-says-he-weighed-395-pounds-when-winning-third-lakers-title/
  11. With big tech, they are all still at a higher headcount post layoffs than they were at end of 2021. There was just way too much over hiring happening across the industry, led by the big boys.
  12. Does anyone want to actually mention the name of the fat actor?
  13. God damn, get a hobby, take up woodworking or something.
  14. isn't it just due to the percent increase? If we were already at 4% before these hikes a 12.5% increase wouldn't have been felt. But going from .5% to 4.5% is impossible to not have ramifications.
  15. we had some hail down in Buda
  16. is @phdhorn still taking forecast requests? We've planned to be camping this saturday into sunday at Meridian state park. Forecast calls for 'scattered thunderstorms', should we cancel or does it seem like we'll just be getting short lived stuff that we should bear with? its a group of people (moms with toddlers) without much stomach for dealing with weather...
  17. I'm ashamed at how young I was when I first started on these God-forsaken boards...
  18. definitely not this guy https://247sports.com/player/calen-bullock-46081272/
  19. they wouldn't have to be 50/50 deep balls if we could actually hit him in stride...
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