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Objectively though the market has gone tougher overall, way less outside roles, the IR35 changes did the damage and other factors like interest rates / brexit etc. also played a part. Regardless of how good of a role you are in now and how lucky you were before, there's no denying currently the market...

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In a way I have a feeling that UK was always pretty special when it came to people working as contractors, rates were pretty good for a long time and you could do it for years earning way more then permies, often doing exactly the same job (whether this was legal is another matter...) so for me it's...

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The norm now is that people with 20yrs of experience are benched for 12m+, clients / employers have a list of requirements which covers responsibilities of at least 3 senior roles and they are paying 50% of "normal" rates or less. So yes, the landscape has definitely changed and I think strict...

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I'm surprised any are still open tbh....

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Wow, any ideas how ridiculously their rates are? or how ridiculous the wish list of reqs is?...

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It's probably complicated, that one person will tick two jobs, but it means no one else will be doing the second one, so you could also say that it should increase unemployment. Simple exaggerated example is a group of 10 people, where one does 10 jobs and 9 people have no job, unemployment rate then...

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Isn't this because a fair amount of people are doing two jobs just to survive? jobs are paid at 2005-2010 levels, with current prices and mortgages being uber expensive, some people really have to work constantly to make ends meet. This would drive unemployment down, but it isn't a positive thing overall...

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Wow, so much goodness..."exceptional [...] opportunity" and "VIP support" also never new that having a car is a skill....

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More like an electrical inspector who also has to design your extension and build it....

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There's still a human in the loop, the text, whatever you feed it, was made by humans. It's not created out of thin air, someone put effort / work into all that data that's available for training. I know the process is unsupervised, but it's not like AI can just make it's own training data blocks and...

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Well you always have to train AI, some humans have to get involved at some stage. A well trained AI model can definitely do visual checks, heck even a dumb script which does an action based on mouse location and then checks the intended result with a screenshot is fairly useful (seen that done once...

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Damn that's a tulip mixture indeed, although perhaps gives you a bit of a breather from the commute? I was doing 1.15hr on average each way 5 days a week, it was also middle of summer, being stuck in traffic on the M25 / M4 was just killing me. So much wasted time and life......

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Still better than 6 weeks on £0ph isn't it?...

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I've done a circa 1.15hr one way for 3 months and bailed at the end. It just kills you in the long run (if you have a family especially), but back then I had the option to do something better paid and closer, so it was a no brainer. In the current market...I'd still consider it as it's still money....

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Interesting to see permanent placements doing so tulipe since Oct 2022, I guess at that point temps were used instead, but since end of last year even that went tits up.

I know this means nothing as it's just a tiny example, but at my current client stacks of people have left and no one...

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If a presentation or at least a chat about your final project / paper isn't necessary then unis (in the UK) are a bloody joke. The whole idea of a degree was always to research a topic, create either a paper or a project and then present it (typically with questions from professors re subject and how...

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Don't you have to present your final paper / project in person? surely then the lack of English skills would be evident?...

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I've started off roughly 8 years ago on £35 per hour, so would probably be ok with something even that low as it pays the bills and puts food on the table. Assuming of course there was even a possibility of getting a contract / job in the first place as I think this is the main issue people are dealing...

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Yeah US stock market seems to be pushed by the big 5 / 7, but still, normally stock market growth and economy go hand it hand to a larger extent and I do realise it's anticipated growth, but with GDP growth predicted to be tulipe, how are the big 5/7 supposed to grow so rapidly anyway? We can clearly...

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What makes absolutely no sense is that with all this tech world tulipe + low GDP growth pretty much anywhere, the stock market has seen some crazy % growth, 20% last year and over 80% across the last 5 yrs. How is any of this tulipe possible? how can it be so great yet so bad at the same time?