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Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View PostImagine 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.Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
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Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View PostImagine 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.Comment
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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.Comment
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[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.Comment
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View Postscreen scraping doesn't work."Don't part with your illusions; when they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live" Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by Fronttoback View PostI'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.
Maybe a good source of staff?Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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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 regulationsLast edited by motoukenin; 27 April 2017, 06:57.Warning unicorn meat may give you hallucinationsComment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostGolf, masturbating and torturing animals.Comment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostA friend of mine became a floorwalker at the local 6th form college.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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