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Sanrith Descartes said:
Strictly from a mental health perspective, dumping the corporate world and opening our own businesses and then later moving to a rural place has been the best decisions we ever made. You can't put a price tag on dumping all the baggage that comes with working for others.
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Yeah, I have been seriously weighing that as my "last act" to lead into retirement. I'm just not as sure yet how much my consultative cybersecurity skillset will lean into independent consultancy. But I have been poking around looking. I give a lot of high level cybersecurity talks to companies and such, and advise on approach and tooling for SOCs. A friend actually suggested to record a months worth of my talks/meetings, then hand that to an AI and have it turn that into a book. Then self-publish on Amazon so I can call myself a "published author", heh.
 
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Yeah, I have been seriously weighing that as my "last act" to lead into retirement. I'm just not as sure yet how much my consultative cybersecurity skillset will lean into independent consultancy. But I have been poking around looking. I give a lot of high level cybersecurity talks to companies and such, and advise on approach and tooling for SOCs. A friend actually suggested to record a months worth of my talks/meetings, then hand that to an AI and have it turn that into a book. Then self-publish on Amazon so I can call myself a "published author", heh.
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You can widen your offerings to add in more mundane IT stuff to appeal to a wider client list. Cybersecurity wont be tops of everyone's list (but should be), but pretty much everyone will be willing to pay for basic IT stuff. Running Cat 6 and putting in switches may be pretty basic stuff, but there is always a demand for it and it pays the bills while you grow the cybersecurity client base.
 
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Because as turnover happened out of China Virus, they just opened the reqs with a lower pay scale. And since it's no longer an employees market now that companies aren't as desperate for labor...well..

That's what happened for the last 2 companies I've been with and Cutlery Cutlery is in the same industry as I am.

The only area I still see my industry suffering with major turnover and pretty much still always in a state of "hiring" is at the entry level. Pickers, packers, forklift drivers, etc.

And with the fact that we keep having to bump pay by .50-1.00 every so often to attract people, there will soon come a point where it's probably more worthwhile to dump the stress of entry level management and just punch a clock soon.
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CDL driver's start at $33 and can't work more than 60 hours a week.

REALLY tempted to just have the driver supervisor sign off on my "road time" and go get one and make 2k a week doing fuck all.
 
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Cutlery said:
CDL driver's start at $33 and can't work more than 60 hours a week.

REALLY tempted to just have the driver supervisor sign off on my "road time" and go get one and make 2k a week doing fuck all.
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If it weren't for all the illegals and dipshits on the road this is the route I'd go as well.
 
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If it weren't for all the illegals and dipshits on the road this is the route I'd go as well.
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Yeah, Every time I say this, I drive home and watch a semi merge onto 35 and then shoot directly to the left lane and fuck up traffic foe the next hour
 
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Cutlery said:
CDL driver's start at $33 and can't work more than 60 hours a week.

REALLY tempted to just have the driver supervisor sign off on my "road time" and go get one and make 2k a week doing fuck all.
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No thanks, people are assholes to trucks.
 
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Well, stupidity at work has finally gotten to me. Time to start actively looking for a new job. I assume LinkedIn, Indeed, and checking direct postings on known local businesses is the most efficient way still. Anything else worth using? Should I pay for an AI service and have it find me jobs I'd like?
 
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Well, stupidity at work has finally gotten to me. Time to start actively looking for a new job. I assume LinkedIn, Indeed, and checking direct postings on known local businesses is the most efficient way still. Anything else worth using? Should I pay for an AI service and have it find me jobs I'd like?
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Best way is to know someone at the company or who can make in introduction.
 
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Well, stupidity at work has finally gotten to me. Time to start actively looking for a new job. I assume LinkedIn, Indeed, and checking direct postings on known local businesses is the most efficient way still. Anything else worth using? Should I pay for an AI service and have it find me jobs I'd like?
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I have to agree with ToeMissile ToeMissile on this one. If your line of work is anything like mine the first stop when job shopping is your personal network and calling people to see who in your industry is hiring. This also usually helps you get the right in with the right people.

Now a days any application process you'll have to trick shot your resume through a gaggle of AI screeners and other things before a human even sees it if you just go from the outside.
 
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For all you IT wonks looking for a job, go work for ICE...

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Anyone worked for Oracle? I'm interviewing there. Their financials seem better than where I'm at now, job is 1:1 what my job is now.

Wondering if I'm just moving to another retarded company if I go there though.
 
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A lower stress retarded company would be a win.

Also Sanrith Descartes Sanrith Descartes fed jobs in general are notoriously difficult to get. They have requirements that are unheard of in the private industry. Like all of the IT shit requires CompTIA and other stupid certs. I have NEVER met any network guy in the private sector who had them and none of them value any of that. At all. The amount of nepotism and stuff is also staggering.

Hard to get a job there. Even if you are overqualified.
 
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A lower stress retarded company would be a win.

Also Sanrith Descartes Sanrith Descartes fed jobs in general are notoriously difficult to get. They have requirements that are unheard of in the private industry. Like all of the IT shit requires CompTIA and other stupid certs. I have NEVER met any network guy in the private sector who had them and none of them value any of that. At all. The amount of nepotism and stuff is also staggering.

Hard to get a job there. Even if you are overqualified.
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So wait. Government jobs go to underqualified friends and relatives or underqualified DEI hires?

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Noodleface said:
Anyone worked for Oracle? I'm interviewing there. Their financials seem better than where I'm at now, job is 1:1 what my job is now.

Wondering if I'm just moving to another retarded company if I go there though.
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Never worked for Oracle, but have used Oracle on enough big projects to know they are the "this is the way we have always done it therefore it is right" company even if their way is retarded. Doesn't necessarily make it a bad place to work, and Oracle was always powerful enough that you'd work around their quirks either way.
 
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TJT said:
A lower stress retarded company would be a win.

Also Sanrith Descartes Sanrith Descartes fed jobs in general are notoriously difficult to get. They have requirements that are unheard of in the private industry. Like all of the IT shit requires CompTIA and other stupid certs. I have NEVER met any network guy in the private sector who had them and none of them value any of that. At all. The amount of nepotism and stuff is also staggering.

Hard to get a job there. Even if you are overqualified.
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Never heard of fed jobs being about nepotism. But what does happen is USA Jobs where you apply has a points systems. So veterans and current feds have a huge advantage. A disabled veteran female Alaskan native would get first dibs interview at any job she applied for. It can be hard for an outsider to get a first federal job in a lot of cases.
 
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Never heard of fed jobs being about nepotism. But what does happen is USA Jobs where you apply has a points systems. So veterans and current feds have a huge advantage. A disabled veteran female Alaskan native would get first dibs interview at any job she applied for. It can be hard for an outsider to get a first federal job in a lot of cases.
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Same when my wife worked at USPS. Veterans immediately had a leg up on the process. I actually like that
 
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