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    #21
    Originally posted by _V_ View Post
    So a job where you have no discernable skills or aptitude, is a job for life and pays around £40K?

    https://www.civilservicejobs.service.../csr/index.cgi
    I thought all new civil service jobs are FTCs to start nowadays?
    'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!

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      #22
      Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View Post
      Imagine you're a coder but have had enough of IT, the money isn't that important to you anymore but you need to carry on working for another 10 years.

      Is there anything that would pay, say £30-40k pa for which you would be suited without retraining?

      I can't help feeling the choice is stick with the status quo. get a plan b together or just site for a cr@p paying McJob.
      How about............... Instead of working 10 years for GBP 300k total. Why not stay as a contractor and earn the same GBP 300k in 3 years?
      Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
      Officially CUK certified - Thick as f**k.

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        #23
        Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View Post
        Imagine you're a coder but have had enough of IT, the money isn't that important to you anymore but you need to carry on working for another 10 years.

        Is there anything that would pay, say £30-40k pa for which you would be suited without retraining?

        I can't help feeling the choice is stick with the status quo. get a plan b together or just site for a cr@p paying McJob.
        You could go back on the game.

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          #24
          Farming

          I'm setting up a betting farm. It's matched betting on the grid scale.

          I already developed most of the automated betting software. But I need smart manual labour to place the initial bets - screen scraping doesn't work.

          I'm looking for smart undergrads that have compsci and maybe some stats knowledge. But I can teach them the stats- that's the easy bit. There's no intelligence there. Stats is the low hanging fruit of the maths world.

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            #25
            [QUOTE=Fronttoback;2408261]I'm setting up a betting farm. It's matched betting on the grid scale.

            I already developed most of the automated betting software. But I need smart manual labour to place the initial bets - screen scraping doesn't work.

            I'm looking for smart undergrads that have compsci and maybe some stats knowledge. But I can teach them the stats- that's the easy bit. There's no intelligence there. Stats is the low hanging fruit of the maths world.[/QUOTE]

            You are obviously 'thick as mince' (Copyright AssSnob 2010)
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #26
              Originally posted by Fronttoback View Post
              screen scraping doesn't work.
              Have you tried SikuliX?
              "Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark Twain

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                #27
                Originally posted by Fronttoback View Post
                I'm setting up a betting farm. It's matched betting on the grid scale.

                I already developed most of the automated betting software. But I need smart manual labour to place the initial bets - screen scraping doesn't work.

                I'm looking for smart undergrads that have compsci and maybe some stats knowledge. But I can teach them the stats- that's the easy bit. There's no intelligence there. Stats is the low hanging fruit of the maths world.
                Friend of ours (a single mum) used to do that for a company. It was very attractive to her working from home and with no set hours. I believe she had a degree and career etc. but the kids interrupted it.

                Maybe a good source of staff?
                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                  #28
                  Problem with any product based idea is the marketing, getting your product out there even on a modest scale can cost 100K plus, seen a number of betting and stock market apps going nowhere because the dev has not been able to attract a significantly large enough investment.

                  Steps for creating a business are fairly straight forward:

                  1) Find or develop a product that you get excited about needs to be a new idea to attract attention
                  2) Get Angel investors or less likely bank finance to market and sell the product
                  3) Get a team together that have skills in selling and marketing on a budget
                  4) Export to other countries, bear in mind that you can get charged anything from 5 - 10 K per country to make sure a product meets that specific country product regulations
                  Last edited by motoukenin; 27 April 2017, 06:57.
                  Warning unicorn meat may give you hallucinations

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
                    Golf, masturbating and torturing animals.
                    Sounds like a sequel to Lock, stock and two smoking barrells.
                    "He's actually ripped" - Jared Padalecki

                    https://youtu.be/l-PUnsCL590?list=PL...dNeCyi9a&t=615

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
                      A friend of mine became a floorwalker at the local 6th form college.
                      Not an option for BBP - not since the incident.
                      Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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