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Originally posted by Fraidycat View Post
Grad debt = Car loan, but no Repo man if you cant make the payments
Lots of folks with 500K+ mortgage debt these days.
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Originally posted by Fraidycat View Post
Grad debt = Car loan, but no Repo man if you cant make the payments
Lots of folks with 500K+ mortgage debt these days.
Grad debt + unaffordable housing = major problem for the under 40s.
500k+ mortgage debt = poor financial management, living outside your means… but blame the kids and tell them they have it so easy. Buy now, pay later works up to the point that someone has to do the paying.
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Originally posted by Bluenose View Post
Check out the legendary recruiter-on-recruiter posts going on about the Hays financial results.
The short version is Hays tried to undercut everyone to keep the lights on and its had disastrous results for them and the recruitment ecosystem.
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https://www.business-live.co.uk/ente...es-92-29790071
'CEO Dirk Hahn stated that market conditions were "increasingly challenging... with low confidence levels and longer-than-normal 'time-to-hire'."'
What a great name, should be actor.
qh
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Originally posted by SussexSeagull View PostHoping that with the schools returning next week at least lifts us out of the short term lull.
I don't think the LinkedIn algorithm helps and people out of work are more active than those in work but there is a lot of people both contract and permanent who have been out of work for a long time. Recruitment looks like a blood bath.
The short version is Hays tried to undercut everyone to keep the lights on and its had disastrous results for them and the recruitment ecosystem.
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Originally posted by SchumiStars View PostState of market is tulip.
Oasis are reforming, looks like they have ran out of cash as well. Maybe this will be the kick the economy needs, some how...
ps: I have no idea how the markets work.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/ar...gle-job-market
So if experienced folk can't find jobs and grads are not getting them either, there's either no jobs or someone else is getting them...
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Hoping that with the schools returning next week at least lifts us out of the short term lull.
I don't think the LinkedIn algorithm helps and people out of work are more active than those in work but there is a lot of people both contract and permanent who have been out of work for a long time. Recruitment looks like a blood bath.
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State of market is tulip.
Oasis are reforming, looks like they have ran out of cash as well. Maybe this will be the kick the economy needs, some how...
ps: I have no idea how the markets work.
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Originally posted by rocktronAMP View Post
Dittto. I believe it is also very toxic place to work for and with. Full of 20-30 somethings with crazy power hormones. It is just not commutable north of Watford by public transport in my case.
I had a good idea they were pushing Scala since ThoughtWork 2010, but I'd thought that Sky would have given up and moved to Kotlin programming language, because of the never ending Zeolotry between the TypeLevel and TypeSafe folk. The bin bun fighting ruined the dream I guess.
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Originally posted by escapeUK View Post
If you did the contract, you'll start 2025 out of work and with a Marxist occupational government determined to destroy what little is left of the economy and most likely in the winter of discontent mk 2. All for 4 months of contract?
If I were you, I would be frank with your old client and say that you don't want to leave your new job in this difficult economic time. However, you could do 2 days a week since you loved working with them (you could make that work right?) They get someone they can rely on and trust, and the project delivered in 8 months rather than 4 (roughly) and you get some more money for Labour to steal! Good luck whatever you decide!
There is no Marxist government in power and they seem firmly in the centre, with a hint of centre left politics creeping in at times. Look at government debt levels of the last two decades and you can see that since the financial crash things aren't going to get better any time soon.
Get out the house and stop reading stupid posts on social media. If you've lost your brain you will not be getting hired easily by clients who will interview and detect this sort of stupidity easily. Sort yourself out.
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Originally posted by Bluenose View PostState of the market summary - 115 pounds inside ir35 per day, Bradford, 4 days onsite.
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Originally posted by Fraidycat View PostThe hope is that doesn't happen and the central banks have pulled off a 'soft landing'
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Originally posted by rocktronAMP View Post
Dittto. I believe it is also very toxic place to work for and with. Full of 20-30 somethings with crazy power hormones. It is just not commutable north of Watford by public transport in my case.
I had a good idea they were pushing Scala since ThoughtWork 2010, but I'd thought that Sky would have given up and moved to Kotlin programming language, because of the never ending Zeolotry between the TypeLevel and TypeSafe folk. The bin bun fighting ruined the dream I guess.
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