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gables
gables
Fingers like lightning
Last Activity: 1 May 2026, 09:26
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  • gables
    replied to State Pension Affordability
    I imagine a lot of us have stories like this.

    When I first started working in London, after a couple of years of renting, in 1992 we bought a 2 bed flat in West Ealing for £77k, I think our joint salaries was around 28k. I seem to recollect the max mortgage was 2.5 * joint and required...
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  • gables
    replied to State of the Market
    I am sceptical about AI and can certainly recognise the hype, I was merely pointing out that there seems an investment in it if that floats your boat, not for me though.

    IMHO this type of hype has been a plague within IT all my career since 1989, and although I may have ridden the crest...
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  • gables
    replied to State of the Market
    Not sure about dead for 3 years as I've been working in banking since 2022 which was my first time (this century) bar some time off last year on my part, but as I say below it helps if you have contacts.

    As to AI, it appears here it is being invested in and heavily.


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  • gables
    replied to State of the Market
    So what is it about an AI generated CV that makes this happen? Is is the writing style, format.......
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  • gables
    replied to State of the Market
    That's bleeding mental, it really is ...
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  • Playing devil's advocate a little... he's good at something by being able to stay on for 11 years, isn't a goal of being in 'business' repeat custom ...
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  • gables
    replied to State of the Market
    Not withstanding HobNob's calculation I'd be taking the role as a contract, you might find you'll get paid quicker than FTC i.e. weekly rather than monthly. This happened to me when I restarted contracting in 2015 and got paid weekly, which was a surprise as my previous contracting was billing monthly...
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