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  1. On 9/4/2023 at 12:25 PM, Snake Diggity said:

    First time reading through this thread and it’s been sobering/depressing.  Next to relationships ending, job hunting is my least favorite life experience.  
     

    The last time I changed jobs 5 years ago, I made a move I thought would set me up for a good decade or more, moving into what I thought was a role that would give me extreme marketability (at least until AI replaces me 10-15 years from now).  As someone who has been a pretty good saver, I figured this might be my last job until early retirement.

    I have a job that most people would kill for.  I’m fully remote, I have tons of control over my schedule, I don’t have any direct reports to deal with, my boss trusts me, and I make $150k+/yr with just a bachelor’s degree.  For the first 3 years, this current gig was the first real job I’ve ever had that I could legit say I really liked and felt lucky to have.  
     

    But the last year and especially the last couple of months, I have been feeling burned out.  I think some of that is just my own personality, as it seems like I’ve gone thru a stage like this at every stop once I hit the 3-4 year mark.  Some of it is that I’ve gotten some really crummy clients in the last year that have been difficult to deal with and made the role more stressful and less fun.  But some of it I think is that I don’t have much more room to grow in this company and feel like I’ve maxed out here, and that I would be stupid to not have my resume updated and feelers out.  My job seems very secure but I’m in a sector that appears to be facing headwinds and I’m seeing plenty of folks in my role at other companies get laid off.

    Reading this thread has me terrified that I’d be totally fucked if I got laid off.  My calling cards are that I’m very good with clients, I’m usually one of the most well-liked people at every job I’ve worked at, and I’m sharp enough to generally pick up whatever is asked of me pretty quickly; but I’m mid-40s and I am a highly paid individual contributor with limited technical expertise.  Reading this thread makes me feel like I’d be looking at a big pay cut if I have to make move.

    So all that tldr is that I am feeling burned out after 5 years but am worried that my age has already started working against me and my skills aren’t in high demand despite an extremely low unemployment rate.  Is it stupid to just accept that without actually going through the motions of seeing what else it out there?  When does it make sense to update the old resume and start the absolute grind of looking for a new gig?

    I have my doubts that 45 is considered a bad age and would hinder you in a job search. Most 45 year olds are still decently healthy. 50 is where it gets bad.

  2. On 9/4/2023 at 5:08 PM, Snake Diggity said:

    I can imagine.  50s seems to be the unemployed person’s no-man’s land.  Too early to retire but too late to be employable at any reasonable pay rate.  That’s one thing kind of freaking me out.  I am thinking wherever I work at 45 needs to be a pretty sure thing to carry me thru my 50s.

    I feel for you man, keep grinding, somebody will realize what you’re bringing to the table and make the smart move to pay you what you’re worth.

    It sucks, but you appear to be right. In your mid 40’s you almost need something that can carry you to your mid 60’s. The job market hates olds.

  3. On 8/30/2023 at 12:43 PM, animaltobacco11 said:

    I want to preface this with I've been rooting for you since day one and following and everytime you specifically bump this I'm hoping it's a good news update we can all celebrate.

    And maybe it's exhaustion and frustration speaking, after all you are only a man, but have you considered that maybe it's that attitude which is subconsciously carrying over to how you are communicating in meetings that are closing doors? If you think these companies and jobs are stupid and you are better than them and it's "pathetic", but you are pinching your nose and applying anyways, why would you not think that might come across?

    Again, there was nothing egregious about that job post. It was more than fine and did a good job of communicating the role and responsibilities using a limited amount of space. 

    Maybe you and Biff should go be fly fishing instructors or reconstruct antique furniture or some other passion project if the normalized culture of sufficiently sized organizations bothers you that much?

    Poster above seems like one of those massive hypocrites who tells everyone to be “grateful for what they have and don’t worry about what other people have” when he probably lives in a mansion with luxury cars.

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  4. 11 hours ago, sasquatch69 said:

    Meanwhile, ignorant older relatives of mine continue to post things like “WE’VE HAD 30 DAYS OF TRIPLE DIGITS BUT IN 2011 WE HAD 60 AND EVEN MORE IN 1980 - GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!!!111”

    Nothing like dying of heat stroke to own the libs.

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  5. On 8/11/2023 at 7:15 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

    There’s definitely some of that. For a lot of folks, whatever they’re told to do in church, that’s what they’ll do. And some people will vote for whatever the Republicans are selling and leave it at that. If the Republicans are for A today then they’re for A today. If the Republicans are for Not A tomorrow then they’ll be vehemently anti-A tomorrow. (And they’ll insist that’s their opinion and they totally came to it all on their own.)

    You should’ve seen some of the ads the Republicans were running to promote the Yes vote. Total disinformation. Pick a popular GOP bogeyman talking point; Issue 1 was going to prevent that very scary thing from happening. It was about protecting the children, protecting parents’ rights, keeping porn out of the schools, keeping the hands of grooming pedophile transgender communist drag queens off your children. Crazy stuff. There’s no doubt there was some percentage of Yes voters who never had a clue what the issue was about. 

    I really hope we kick their ass next year. All republicans do is lie and dupe people into voting against their own self interests. If you’re not in the top 10%, no reason at all to vote GOP.

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  6. 1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Tomorrow is CPI report, Friday is PPI report.

    CPI report is expected to be higher than last months by 0.2 or 0.3.  It’s understandable because this is the worst summer since 2011 and it’s weighing down everything. Gas prices spiked. Everyone just seems to be holding on for dear life and hoping for fall to get here.

  7. Dalton is a baller

    22023: Made three appearances out of the bullpen... Posted a 9.82 ERA in 3.2 innings... Struck out one and walked two... Opponents hit .250 off him... Recorded two outs in season debut against Northwestern (2/19)... Threw a season-high two innings at Troy (4/22)... Recorded a strikeout in a scoreless inning on Senior Day against ULM (5/20).

  8. 1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    Someone explain it to me like I'm 5. Inflation rates have been going down consistently for a while. And as we've seen over half of current inflation is corporate profits, so what does this do? Are they trying to torpedo the economy? 

     

    Some economists have been saying that the last bit of inflation “will be sticky” and “hard to deal with”. According to them, we’re just now reaching the difficult phase in lowering inflation to the 2% goal.

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  9. 5 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

    Shots fired.  What's SCOTUS going to do about it?  Republican states openly stating they don't have to follow rules if they disagree with them--so much for law and order (yet again).  That is essentially what state rights mean to Southern states, and I'm glad they're pulling this card well in advance of the' 24 election.  If they are openly in contempt of the highest court on this, moving forward, they will openly challenge everything else they disagree with as well.  Is SCOTUS going to ignore this or attempt to capitulate to their demands of open voter suppression?  As they like to say--Fuck Your Feelings (rights, votes, rulings, laws).  This is a direct challenge to America as a Democracy--let's see how the Supreme Court treats it. The world is watching.

    Don’t think it’s going to end well for Alabama in August when the court reviews the maps. I guess Alabama still had to try and do anything they could to “own the libs” tho. That seems to be all the party of “family values” really cares about.

  10. 11 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Being only half-white, I don't get invited to the same meetings as many of y'all.  Is a declining white population replacement rate really a big deal?  Like, are some of you white people really wringing your hands that you don't see enough white people on the street in your town, or?  

    People do realize that being a "minority" isn't actually based on raw numbers, it's about power.  There are hundreds of examples in dozens of countries all over the world where a group lacks in numerical majorities but still retains majority levels of power.  So there's about to be more non-white people than white people in the United States, it's already the case in Texas.  Who gives a shit?  Are some of you white people having a hard time finding work, or a seat at the lunch counter, or voting?  I don't get the bitching and moaning from the group that was supposed to be the backbone of the country-white men.  Buncha sand vaginas you ask me. 

    I'm more anti-government than most of you on the far right, I just choose to go about it more productively than electing felons.  But I am of the opinion that we need to start seriously considering mandatory genealogy testing of adults in this country.  Most of you are nowhere near as 'white' as you think you are.  And those of you who are, those of you who can't stop bitching about socialist Europe this, woke Europe that, sure as hell can't shut the fuck up about how European your blood is.  

    Maybe it'll effect my children's lives, who are both far more white than I am...but for now only time you worry about population shifts is when a white male stops bitching about 'em.  

    I don’t have an issue with it because I don’t own a business, I’m not wealthy, and I don’t have lots of connections to get such things. The white people who hate it are the ones who are in the top 1%-10% and just don’t want anything at all to change. They’re resistant to pretty much all types of change really. 
     

    they scream the loudest because they own everything. Even things like tv stations, radio, newspapers, etc.

     The only thing I’d get rid of is affirmative action. I think affirmative action has gone on long enough and we should just consider people for college slots and jobs based on merit and not the color of their skin. Enough minorities have succeeded since the civil rights era that I feel like the crutch or leg up is no longer needed and that crutch just hurts the non-rich / connected white folks.

  11. 3 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Investing in American infrastructure, green jobs, and things like bringing semiconductor manufacturing stateside are helping the economy. Just look at unemployment and inflation.
     

    tl;dr - Dem administrations fix the economy after republicans wreck it

    Made me sick that Obama healed the economy and trump wins the 2016 election at the perfect time to take all the credit for it. The Obama recovery took too long, but it was after the deepest and nastiest recession of our life times. I highly highly doubt we will see ever one worse than 2008. It took the job market 6-7 years to come back.

  12. 23 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    He’s a very awkward human being 

    I think it’s hilarious that lots of conservatives saw that he won Florida twice and after the second time, they some of them hitched their wagons to him like he’s the second coming. The guy is weird as hell and people in his campaign are telling him to campaign less because the more non Floridians see of Ron and Casey, the more they dislike them.

    Desantis won Florida by 15 points in his second election because of 3 main factors. Democrats punted Florida and opted to try and win Arizona, Georgia, Nevada instead. Republicans from all over the country moved to Florida en masse and democrats ran a “placeholder” candidate in Crist. He was a repub at some point. Definitely not someone who will excite the base.

  13. This opinion probably won’t be popular, but I agree with Thomas and Alito dickheads on this one.

    we’ve all heard of this scenario playing out in one way or another :

    white kid, black kid, and Asian kid are all good students with good grades. White kid and Asian kid get 1600 on their SAT. Black kid gets 1300 on his SAT.  Asian and white kid rejected by Yale and black kid accepted to Yale for “diversity” purposes. 
     

    Schools should accept people based on merit and their qualifications. Hell….. jobs should do the same. There should be no crutch for minorities. You’re just hurting non-rich / connected white peoples by propping these minorities up.

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  14. 36 minutes ago, Pods said:

    Zelensky calls for legalization of medical MJ to help Ukraine deal with the trauma. Be nice if Biden and the FDA would get their shit in gear over here. 

     

    Speaking of Eastern European countries.

     

    Luxembourg has officially ended prohibition.  Do I wish it was a major country like Spain or England?  Yeah….. but we’re still at the we’ll take any victories we can get phase.

    im hoping these small wins add up over time and we eventually see a huge / sudden push that ends prohibition once and for all.

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