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my best use of AI this week!...
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WOW! OMG!
Seriously: phone round your mates at the pub/golf club/tufty club/masonic lodge, get introduced to a very good accountant and run through it with them and pay the accountant some good cash to help you out! Make sure you bring the wife along!
I've seen so many posts like...
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There are so many recruiters out there that cannot read. Especially on LinkedIn. I'm retired. It says so on my profile. So many messages, "can we have a catch up about so and so". "I'm recruiting for a shelf stacker/stuntman and like the look of your profile". - Show me a shelf stacker...
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the drive time between the two sites might not be that much. Allegedley!...
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Way, way back in the day, apparently the biggest user of these in the UK was the MoD.
The MoD machines had their own building on a certain MoD site and the dedicated support team worked out of the building next door. Allegedley.
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ChatGPT has been my go to.
Wasn't particularly impressed by Claude. You can do very much until you have to pay.
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CoPilot has been amazing with Microsoft specific stuff.
Google's AI has been pretty ropey especially when you ask it about me! - Apparently I went to Eton and Oxford,...
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Take time off and out before you are forced to. Eg Burnout or other health issues and do it regularly.
Stay healthy etc.
Hitting the wall and being forced to take 3 - 6 months plus off with ill health will harm you even more financially even with a good war chest. If something happens...
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