Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!
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I hate the state of B2C software, with endless scammers, poor products, data stealers, and so fore.
Fucking recruiters can just ATS a resume with AI, and scan thousands of resumes in a minute. But the minute I ask for a base resume + job descriptions combine software I am the **** who doesn't want to manually enter data and change keywords manually while recruiters, and businesses get treated like royalty.
Fucking recruiters can just ATS a resume with AI, and scan thousands of resumes in a minute. But the minute I ask for a base resume + job descriptions combine software I am the **** who doesn't want to manually enter data and change keywords manually while recruiters, and businesses get treated like royalty.
Just type your goddamn CV up like a normal person. Word even has some templates you can use.
Yeah the first CV takes ages. Every one after that is just adding your recent work experience to the top of the list and changing your referees.
No, I have the first CV, I just don't have good CV software yet. I have to prompt engineer it via GPT-4 to HTML then open the HTML in Word.
Also in other news I would rather die than be forced to own a mac.
Hey i know this is the complaint thread, but I don't have anybody to expell my positive secrets to.
My boss called me yesterday, I thought I was in trouble (I can very acerbic at work), but she laughed and told me one of the architects is retiring and she told me, if I accepted, they want to promote me to "Architect". She was pretty honest and said Id be doing the job I was already doing, I would just receive a raise and more stock options.
I don't want to be critical but apparently the guy had been fairly open with leadership that I was already doing his job and he wanted to move on before he became dispensable.
Its funny, its been my life long dream to be an architect despite architects at other jobs openly stating I was above them, but I finally feel like Ive earned it. I'm "valuable".
My boss called me yesterday, I thought I was in trouble (I can very acerbic at work), but she laughed and told me one of the architects is retiring and she told me, if I accepted, they want to promote me to "Architect". She was pretty honest and said Id be doing the job I was already doing, I would just receive a raise and more stock options.
I don't want to be critical but apparently the guy had been fairly open with leadership that I was already doing his job and he wanted to move on before he became dispensable.
Its funny, its been my life long dream to be an architect despite architects at other jobs openly stating I was above them, but I finally feel like Ive earned it. I'm "valuable".
Congrats, seriously. Sounds like you have really earned it.
Sucks getting old. One boss retired for health issues. Same org, I'm with another, boss is retiring, health issues. While we're trying to get our heads around it all, a senior partner is retiring, just wanted to stick around long enough to see the other boss off. Everything might stay everything for me and that would be fine. I'm old and near retirement. But. But. We could hire new person to be the boss and will make me miserable. I could see a dangerous co-worker elevated to be my boss. I could become the boss, dealing with a dangerous subordinate now, who will make me miserable. Or, they could deep six my entire department or have a remote party do it. Phew. Thank g-d for gin.
So I finally crafted my resume prompt to perfection so I don't have to manually edit the meat of my resumes to fit every job description because I am lazy, Claude3 gets it in one go, and GPT-4 in 1-2.
I copied my base resume to the base resume input and copied the job description to the job description area.
I copied my base resume to the base resume input and copied the job description to the job description area.
Well, I am now unemployed. Not from any fault of my own; the company decided to eliminate my position, so I get severance and the whole deal, but still- job prospects for someone of my age and skillset aren't exactly splendid.
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Welcome to the club.
Well, not the age club, the laid off in a shit economy club. There's a lot of us. Enjoy LinkedIn.
Twelve years of data entry, along with a year of customer relations via phone. Before that, ten years of retail and four years of pizza delivery, interspersed with assorted other "joe jobs".
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I hope you like minimum wage because that's what everyone is going to try and pay you for data entry and customer relations these days. They'll also get mad when you don't accept poverty wages and will claim that "no one wants to work."
Sight reading sheet music is so bloody hard! I've been playing the piano off and on (mostly off) for most of my life but I just really suck at reading sheet music and am making an effort to get better but it's frustrating. I can do stuff that's so beginner that they aren't even really songs at a slow speed and still make mistakes because I keep forgetting to read ahead of where I'm playing. I'm fine when I'm just doing one hand at a time but I've only got one brain, how am I supposed to read two different sets of notes while I'm playing another two I've already read and trying to keep time.
I've played piano since I was about 12 or so, and sight reading has always been really hard for me. It's almost a talent unto itself beyond being able to play an instrument. "Fortunately," I have a really strong ear, and can visualize where the next note might be, and repetition and muscle memory allow me to pull off the handful of songs I know relatively respectably. I use sheet music the way one might use notes to study for a test, but to perform? Not happening. I learn a piece, throw the sheets away, and play from memory.
Fuck, that sucks. Hope you find something new (and decent) fast.
If it makes you feel any better, I've been playing music for close to 20 years, and I never really got the hang of it either.