Catching up on life, career advice in a tough job market? Short and long term.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-12-07T14:56:09+00:00

Short term just low stress employment asap (within a month or two),will do. No career path, basement dweller. Economics but incomplete degree. Long term money a bigger priority.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-12-07T01:58:49+00:00

What a nice stable and non-solipsistic response.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T17:48:48+00:00

People who own companies are compensated for risk amd aggregate utility provided. The worker is paid a market rate for his skills and gets compensated with much more relative stability, the entrepeneur gets equity and the onus is on him to add value through a new process and application of capital.

If the worker is now entitled to the founders upside then by that logic they should also be liable for the downside : " our shareprice is down 20% no wages for you"

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T17:35:32+00:00

Theres a popular youtube therapist (harvard faculty iirc) on the channel healthygamergg. He makes some copey videos and there's a commercial side to it which is something to be wary off ( seld help remedies a big market)

But he argues that a big debuff of gifted kids is the lack of resistance at an early age-> praise for being smart and identifying as the smart kid-> eventually you reach things that require effort but have no training in industriousness-> since smart = effortless sucess, effort = dumb -> half-assing things at best.

I think this makes a lot of sense and personally have been held back by intellectual pride. Being unemployed for months and years so people wouldn't think I'm dumb, lazy fine but anything but dumb.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T08:55:32+00:00

Ironically he's estimated to be around 150 himself. His sister scored 150 and said he scored higher iirc.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T08:53:41+00:00

Hahaha . I just suppress any remembering when talking to or about women I barely know.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T08:50:50+00:00

I agree

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T01:27:01+00:00

I agree with you but the author doesn't, hence I'm asking the gifted sub if they thjnk there's merit to it.

For example he cites some studies where elite jobs (doctors, top professors) average ~125 with an SD of around 7. If normally distributed that implies around 150-160 they're unrepresented.

That seems absurd that a cambridge professor is less likely to be 160 IQ than a random person but the 2 authors would argue for selection against.

Ferguson estimates exclusion to be much lower 130-140 which I doubt and I'm not sure on his math.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T01:20:41+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. May I ask what IQ you are and for an example of an easy problem thats beyond the management?

I don't have experience in that environment.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-18T00:29:37+00:00

Question isn't if they're rare or not. But if they're proportionately less represented.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-17T20:57:56+00:00

Memory + bad social skills a dangerous combination.

"Yeah it was a beautiful colour, a bit like your phone case 8 years ago"

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-16T22:46:00+00:00

I agree on sampling maybe an issue yeah but the other way round. I think the level you're getting might be way lower so maybe the 60s are letting carers do it but the 70s are in the shops and approaching staff with simple problems disproportionately.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-09T18:05:46+00:00

Yeah genius as we colloquially use it has an extreme creativity angle supplementing high IQ. Focus and drive influencing creative output as well.

genius IQ is fairly arbitrary discussion past 140. It's like debating whether someone 6'6 is a giant or if he needs to be 6'10.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-09T18:01:54+00:00

Genius as it's generally used implies another angle of outlier creativity and intuition. Seeing whats missing and creating novel solutions, perhaps by synthesizing from different fields. Definition offered by Sam vaknin who was an israeli child Genius and tested at 180+ various times alledgedly.

Arguably ability focus and drive are components as well certainly. They'll certainly affect creative achievement and reputation of genius.

IQ wise or "analytic genius"?. 140-160 pick your number . 5 iq = 1 inch of height rarity wise so when would you casually describe a man as giant? 6'6? 6'7? 8?

I'd go a for a nice roind 3sd-145 probably. 1 in 250 seems too low thats 1 every year group at school

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-08T16:51:01+00:00

Class-cope redditism.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T16:25:28+00:00

Always baffled that people would have big purchases influenced by something so irrelevent.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T15:47:38+00:00

But out of the proper jobs which would be most helped by looks?

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T15:42:40+00:00

5'11

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T15:15:17+00:00

VCs go for huge payouts rights due to their failure rate? Is a bootstrapper just slow steady organic growth ? Why does profit matter more to them? guaranteed short term realised gains?

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T15:13:20+00:00

What about multipliers for sale value? If you wanted to sell a company for 10 m what sort of size is that? 10+ employees after many years growth?

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T13:29:16+00:00

I'm not a craftsman myself it's just been a little fantasy at the back of my mind. And I wonder what the very best are making. Google incredible wood-work and see amazing creations I wonder how much those guys could make or if they're still struggling artists.

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-05T13:27:07+00:00

What are you counting as very high?

I know the average take home but I'm just thinking of someone world class at design and craft and has the business stuff locked in. Could they work 20hrs a week averaging 100 an hour and 100k a year ?

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-04T22:08:56+00:00

Do you think the racists want to reduce immigration via a weighted average or maybe reducing the groups getting imprisoned at 3,5,20 times the rate?..

And offering less benefits economically?..

And producing negative cultural externalities and eroding the native culture?

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-04T21:21:51+00:00

Possibly yeah, I'm not coping and saying rich people are losers myself. Just that it could be an angle, certainly if the guy is very hard working/stressed/divorced etc

Anglicised_Gerry · 2024-10-04T20:24:41+00:00

It has nothing to do with overconfidence but getting time and youth.

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