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Not with high interest rates they don't, that is the very reason market is tulipe and will be for quite some time....

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I'm just over 40 and I'm tulipting myself thinking of job hunting in 2-3 years let alone 10yrs from now. I have a feeling experience simply means less and less these days and that most hiring managers thing anything can be thought on the job. I'd even go as far as saying around 40 is a good time to find...

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"What counts as risk assets avoided during high interest rate periods? Well, funding companies with uncertain futures is a pretty risky asset. So, at times of high interest rates, the weaker companies collapse, strong companies use high interest rates as an excuse to “clean house” every 10...

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The feck, those are £10k a pop? ...

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The way they are going about it, yeah they are way behind, also most armies in Europe are super small, funding has been low for years in pretty much every country and Europe hasn't even ramped up ammo production, let alone anything heavier. There's plans of spending more, but it's mostly plans, as if...

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Ukraine and Europe is ****ed if the orange man is president. Partially Europe's fault for not ramping up weapons production and relying on the US.

Then again I heard that Trump's plan is to tell Ukrainians that they need to give up some land and sign a peace treaty with russia or no more...

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That's why I always say "feck classes" or actually I should say "feck turning everything to a class"....

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It's around £5 for a standard seat, they often split people as I think priority is for parents and their kids, those have to sit together.

Love the poor people comment and being too tight to pay for a seat besides you pay for seats everywhere now anyways, at least that was the...

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It's the same sh*te you get from any other budget airline, although I have to say they had the least amount of delayed flights last year I think when every other airline had loads (easyJet being the worst I think). Overall their website isn't that bad, you pick your baggage "bundle", pick...

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Green energy sector was super hot when gov money was pouring in, now that tap has been turned off and suddenly it's not that great, perhaps green energy should cost more as otherwise companies can't even break even let alone earning anything etc. High interest rates are a killer atm, so pretty much...

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The thing is, is this is what most offer, this becomes the market rate. Who cares what used to be paid 5-10yrs ago....

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Got an extension till end of the year, which was a fairly big plot twist, still that doesn't resolve much as I want to go perm, but there's a hiring freeze currently, so lets see.

Market wise, contract at least, it's dead for me, no upticks, no movement. Perm is a bit different, seems to...

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Who gives two tulips about millionaires? Also, clearly China has a problem ...

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Just shows how bad the market is I guess......

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I'd say you have skills which are hard to find (overall, or just at the moment) and every recruiter out there found your CV and started banging on the door. Happens to me every single time there's a job offer in my niche area, I get 10-15 phone calls initially as there's only a few CVs in the UK with...

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How else you are going to gather money to fix all that is broken? and everything is broken. I've said it before and I'll say it again, taxes will go up for sure, the only problem is that if they go to heavy-handed on it, they risk dampening the already laughable economic growth. They can't borrow more...

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Based on where I am (green energy) and the chats I've had with people in IT / software dev (and outside as well actually), most companies are either sacking / re-orgin + hiring freeze. So if you are not getting sacked, count yourself lucky. If there's job ads announced, they go to internal hires, but...

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Nothing is set in stone though, all they need to say is that after coming into power and reviewing the state of the budget, they have to increase corp taxes for example to pay for all sorts of public services and everyone will applaud them. Businesses will reduce spending again, cut costs wherever and...

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It seems that if the upper mgmt is clueless about what the company actually does, they often go for a "digital transformation" as if that's the sure way to increasing efficiency etc. it's basically what Agile was back in 2015-2020, the magical ticket to hyper-efficient organisations.
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In my case there already was a re-org like a year ago, but mostly just shifting people around, this time though it's pretty major, with new org groups and the new manager is hell bent on pushing people hard and thinks consultants are just money grabbing lazy bastards, so pretty much every non-permie...