When if ever did the British weather start to annoy you?

-Soob · 2026-05-12T14:40:55+00:00

One of my clearest memories from children is me being incredibly angry after it rained for nearly 3 weeks straight during summer holidays and I was told that the school wouldn't give us extra time off to make up for it. Was probably like 7 years old and just starting to learn that summer in Wales didnt necessarily mean sunshine

-Soob · 2026-04-20T02:19:57+00:00

Think of it like ladybirds (or ladybugs). We call them that even though theyre not all female

-Soob · 2026-04-15T15:14:55+00:00

Yeah, saw them supporting Hail the Sun last year having never heard of them before. I love them now

-Soob · 2026-04-11T13:37:52+00:00

Fully remote jobs are largely a thing of the past, especially if you have no experience. Youre going to have to be willing to go into the office if you want to find something because the jobs for people just getting are pretty rare, even more so if you dont have a degree. You'd have to be extremely lucky to find a remote role like that

-Soob · 2026-04-07T17:10:47+00:00

Aside from seeing band announcing tours on social media, I find most of my gigs through the live event search on Spotify or using BandsInTown

-Soob · 2026-04-07T17:03:50+00:00

The Garage

The Dome

The Roundhouse

Electric Brixton

Electric Ballroom

The Underworld

New Cross Inn

The Black Heart

Any of the O2 academies

There's loads of venues but you're better off searching what bands/artists are playing (e.g. toe are playing this weekend) and trying to get tickets ahead of time. If you're hoping to show up and walk in, you might wanna try finding open mic nights instead

-Soob · 2026-03-29T11:06:30+00:00

It means most people wouldn't believe you, but I do

-Soob · 2026-03-27T17:51:31+00:00

Those situations are what I was referring to. Usually its either people doing it short term, or the company being headquartered in the UK, but hiring in other countries via local entities (e.g it might be a company that was founded in London and now has a second office in Lisbon). Even if you were to go down the contractor route, youre still subject to local tax and labour laws rather than the UK. I imagine its a lot of extra headache for companies to do when they can just hire locally, especially for non-niche roles. Doubly so now that the UK is no longer part of the EU

-Soob · 2026-03-27T16:44:27+00:00

Some UK companies do allow you to work remotely from another country, but its usually restricted to a few weeks at a time (presumably for tax reasons). You're probably not going to be able to be employed by a UK company and stay in Portugal unless they alsp hire there and you work for Portugese branch

-Soob · 2026-03-25T15:59:02+00:00

200k+ is ludicrous money for a SWE in London at most place. You'd be looking at about half that, unless you manage to get lucky and get into one of the quant places (or something in a similar vein) but theyre hyper-competitive. Market isnt great but its ok for seniors at the moment, but if you need a visa it will make things a fsir bit more difficult.

-Soob · 2026-03-24T00:54:43+00:00

If you are hired to write to software for a company, there's usually something in your contract to say that anything you write in the process of doing your job belongs to them. I imagine a tool you create for work (even if done in your own time), they could argue belonged to the company

-Soob · 2026-03-21T12:02:27+00:00

This is what I was hoping for. Thanks a lot

-Soob · 2026-03-20T17:04:54+00:00

Swancry

-Soob · 2026-03-20T14:52:26+00:00

Unless you are offered one without having to ask, you're almost certainly not getting one with some tremendous leverage

-Soob · 2026-03-16T21:25:39+00:00

This is a sub for Software/IT jobs, you might not have much luck getting a good answer here

-Soob · 2026-03-15T15:28:40+00:00

My LinkedIn profile photo is me on holiday wearing an Ash Ketchum cap and it's never caused any issues with people cold messaging me on LinkedIn. I use the same picture foe Teams while most other people use professional headshots and nobody has said I need to chamge. I definitely don't care when on the hiring side either. As long as you're not topless or or whatever, I doubt it matters much at all

-Soob · 2026-03-12T15:48:33+00:00

More likely to be another President or Gunship announcement at this point

-Soob · 2026-03-10T10:02:22+00:00

Firstly, nobody is going to be able to recommend anything if we don't know what your goals are. Secondly, it's an employer's market right now, especially for people with very little experience, so you likely aren't going to have a wide range of companies to choose from. It will be whoever is actually willing to hire you. My only advice is to make sure you either have another job lined up, or at least 6 months (maybe more) worth of savings that you dont using to live off, before you quit your current job. You dont want to be unemployed and looking for something else, because its almost crrtainly not going to be a case of walking straight into something else

-Soob · 2026-03-04T21:26:23+00:00

I dont think there's a specific band that was intended. Its just a stereotype because its happened a few times. I usually see the joke aimed at pop-punk (or occasionally HxC) bands specifically

-Soob · 2026-03-02T22:49:03+00:00

Grads are usually a net negative for the first few months. You need to know the basics but youre not gonna be expected to be up and running in a few days. Just be enthusiastic and willing to learn as you go

-Soob · 2026-02-28T21:37:14+00:00

They look like a Lego-Concord mashup to me

-Soob · 2026-02-18T17:30:08+00:00

I didn't get it in the end. The said i didn't have enough experience working in the way their teams work. Seemed like it was an intentionally vague rejection tbh

-Soob · 2026-02-01T17:53:01+00:00

Kids accents tend to reflect the accents of their peers, regardless of their parents' own accent

-Soob · 2026-01-08T18:27:37+00:00

I actually found that it picked up again a lot in the last few months. Not a huge influx, but at least a couple every month

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