The 2025 Bum Thread

Talking to a uni shortly about some part time lecturing work. Don't think I want it full time (partner is a lecturer, HE is a mess), but if I can some to an arrangement that'll pay (some of) the bills but leave me enough time to develop a business.....could be tempting.
 
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mid_gen said:
Talking to a uni shortly about some part time lecturing work. Don't think I want it full time (partner is a lecturer, HE is a mess), but if I can some to an arrangement that'll pay (some of) the bills but leave me enough time to develop a business.....could be tempting.
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Always good to share knowledge!
 
Not really sure what to do in my circumstances.
It looks like pay has dropped and is dropping as well as AI threat coming in.

I'm very lucky I can take a pay cut as I don't have an expensive life. But I have a feeling things are going to be very very different and I'm going to probably have to go into the office and take a pay cut. Or go contract.

I'm also looking at retaining, but again. No idea what to do there as it would be starting from scratch
 
The JSA people always say let them know asap if your circumstances change.
I tried ringing them, infinite call centre queue. So I decided I'd just go in...
It seemed like they're unprepared to deal with someone giving them 2 weeks notice of a new job starting, like nobody's ever done it before lol.
Ended up in a messy situation where the lady had to book a reminder for herself to cancel it in a couple of days which would take effect a week later.
My P45 will get sent to me godknowswhen and godknowshow, which is annoying because the new employer has asked for it.

Lesson for future bums:
- don't bother being proactive with JSA people, either communicate with them in your regular scheduled meeting, or when you begin work (no point telling them a future start date they can't cope).

Lesson for the JSA people:
- It was possible to start a claim via a website, it should be possible to end a claim via a website too.
 
Just did an hour of exercise this morning and I just feel could spend the day napping. Bit of a struggle todo anything constructive thanks to that.
 
Well looks like I am going to be a lecturer as of Monday morning, not sure how that happened, hah! Will be a nice change, and it's only an 8-week engagement.....just enough incoming to justify spending the rest of my time dossing about climbing.
 
mid_gen said:
Well looks like I am going to be a lecturer as of Monday morning, not sure how that happened, hah! Will be a nice change, and it's only an 8-week engagement.....just enough incoming to justify spending the rest of my time dossing about climbing.
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Congrats, you found a job now! Might aswell temporary close this thread :D

Signed the final contract for my Senior Microsoft Engineer role, wont be starting till April 1st due to their on-boarding process.

Booked a holiday to Egypt for March as abit of an celebration.
 
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malachi said:
Congrats, you found a job now! Might aswell temporary close this thread :D

Signed the final contract for my Senior Microsoft Engineer role, wont be starting till April 1st due to their on-boarding process.

Booked a holiday to Egypt for March as abit of an celebration.
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Well, it's not a career, I have no desire to go into teaching full time, so the job plans will continue. Plus I'm still a bum 3 days a week for the next 8 weeks.

Although my YouTube channel is doing pretty well atm, might start making me some pennies soon.
 
I'm currently abusing google colab :D I'm not running python... that got too restrictive, so now I'm running c++ and downloading all the libraries and compiling that way. So it gets fun as running C++ for this needs seal -> libtorch -> mkldnn (Intel's math's library) and those aren't in apt packages. In my case the Jupyter notebook holds all the files. Milking the free runtime :)
 
I'm fairly sure I will be taking a pay cut if I get a perm job next.

AI and the job market are looking grim

Probably 5-10k cut
 
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I moved to a higher paying job, with a new employer in Jan (seems only way to get a pay rise these days). When I started my previous job I loved it and it took a long time to feel like a drag.

But I'm just not feeling it anymore. I'm planning to retire as early as I can and it seems like everyone is now. With the all round **** economy, it just feels like there is no incentive to keep working, so people can't be bothered anymore.
 
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I'm probably going to start a thread soon

"job market is poop, AI will take my job soon... What can I retrain in?"

Because I'm thinking this is actually going to be what I need to do with AGI round the corner.
 
The AI noise is why I did my little course in AI.

People are ataring to learn it’a operational riaka ans problems - using AI means you’re wholy dependant on a tech bro for your business, with major issues due to being biy resilieny servixes (chatgpt seems to be publicly having an aneurism with people complaining as their businesses now depend on it).
 
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Moat people would be knackered if there was true AGI.
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Lots of talk about it being around very soon. And yeah it would knacker the world. Tbh I guess if it is full on "skynet" type stuff things like "work" may not even matter anymore and all bets are off.

Just trying to figure out what to do really. Genuinely tempted to do something like train to be a heat pump engineer or something practical.

Crazy to even have these fears. But don't want to be last person off a sinking ship
 
413x said:
I'm fairly sure I will be taking a pay cut if I get a perm job next.

AI and the job market are looking grim

Probably 5-10k cut
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Not sure if I missed it.

What do you do to be worried AI is taking your job?
 
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