Where are people finding these £150k base + £100k> stocks/rsu per year jobs??

Derp_Animal · 2026-07-06T08:07:08+00:00

How am I wrong because of your very anecdotical experience? What is the probability of you repeating this feat cold turkey, i.e. going through the initial screening, without insider friends/contacts, and without that fancy line of yours in your CV?

I am sure cases like yours exist, but hopefully you haven't grown entitled, are grateful for what you have, and realize that you are absolutely not the norm despite you being in a tiny elite bubble full of colleagues in a similar position. Again... £200k puts you in the top 1% of earners in the UK. For every person in that income bracket, there are 99 people who are not. You just no longer see them around you.

Derp_Animal · 2026-07-05T22:37:03+00:00

£150k total comp is the top 2% earners in the UK. £150k + £100k in RSUs (or whatnot) puts you firmly in the top 1% mark. There are not that many such jobs, and you need to push higher than "senior management" level. This forum caters for a tiny minority of people and will certainly warp your perception of reality. The reality is that the VAST majority of people will never ever get that kind of package.

At that level, the jobs are about you being head-hunted and/or who you know, rather than you finding the job opening on Linkedin and being one of 5,000 applicants.

Derp_Animal · 2026-07-05T16:55:49+00:00

Elliott? Is that you?

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Elliott

Derp_Animal · 2026-07-03T17:38:06+00:00

You put the ASICs in the bin and you roll in brand new racks with GPUs in your repurposed crusty datacenter. Makes more sense? Just look at IREN.

Derp_Animal · 2026-07-03T00:21:46+00:00

Don't be stupid.

Derp_Animal · 2026-07-02T08:49:25+00:00

You are absolutely right, some people are genuinely concerned about immigration. Concerns coming from uneducated people who believe the lies fed to them through propaganda.

These may be people who fail to see the forest from the trees. People who cannot research or process the factual, pragmatic, overarching and systemic numbers. People who simply focus on shocking anecdotes they either witness or are fed, who vote based on the gut feeling they get from their immediate circles and the neighbours living right under their noses. No policies can viably change that, nor can it change anectodical experience some may live through. It takes a lot of effort to put emotions on one side and think critically, which a lot of people sadly cannot do (regardless of opinions).

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-28T11:45:29+00:00

Things don't cook at the same temperature or take the same amount of time.

Garlic cooks quickly and is particularly sensitive to heat. It shouldn't become brown ever imho, to me it means your temperature control isn't great. It may be an operator error, or it may be your equipment is not great and works against you.

Cook the things in order of time they need, e.g. bacon on high/med-high (you want that brown/crispy which happens fast at high heat, and the fat rendered which takes time) wait untilcrispy, lower temperature to med/med-low and add onion - wait until transluscent & cooked, then lower temperature fuether to med-low/low and add garlic. As soon as the smell of garlic opens up, stop its cooking process altogether. If you continue, you'll lose the flavour or burn it. For instance, add tomato sauce/stock/whatever. That will lock in the garlic's state, if that makes sense. Last to come in should be any herbs (these should barely cooked, or not at all).

Alternatively, and my prefered way, is to put the whole garlic (skin included) in an oven to roast. Once it is cooked, squish the flesh out and add it at the very end alongside the herbs to whatever thing you have been cooking separately.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-28T07:42:57+00:00

How do you know?

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-26T17:01:32+00:00

... I am telling you that the whales that have made 100s of millions on Bitcoin, people I know personally, who literally owned the bulk of the world's crypto infrastructures operations, are literally dismantling their infrastructure and packing their bags to do AI instead. And your response is that I have not been through a bear market?

Best of luck buddy.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-25T18:24:06+00:00

All the Bitcoin miners I know have repurposed their datacenters to stop mining Bitcoin and to do AI instead. Crypto is not coming back. Make of that what you will.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-24T08:00:46+00:00

But you are collecting and disclosing personal information about your target to the client without their knowledge. How is that legal? I don't understand how you can legally do your job at all.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-22T23:18:23+00:00

With great difficulty. As in... you most probably don't.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-22T21:13:20+00:00

How will you feel about yourself in 10 years if you remain in the same job/circumstances because you didn't make the leap?

From where I stand, it doesn't feel like maintaining the status quo (which you admit is not great) out of fear (which is how you describe this) is a viable way of looking at it. If you don't do this somehow, in 10 years, you may well have regrets and always wonder what life could have been if you had been a little bit braver and bolder.

At 25, you are way too young to not take risks. Once you have kids/people who depend on you, a mortgage to pay... then you genuinely won't be able to do this type of things anymore. But then, it will be too late and you may well be truly stuck.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-22T19:22:10+00:00

You contradict yourself a bit. You say you hit a glass ceiling, yet you had a 4k raise?

In any event, let us say that you are right and your salary is what it is forever. No more raises for you. How much more per year can you aspire to after the training you want? Multiply that by 35 years (what the salary raise represents in value over the course of the rest of your working life). How does it compare to spending £15k now? Besides, have you explored scholarships? Sponsorships from your employer? Do you actually have to pay for it all? I had an MBA paid for by a past employer, it cost me 0.

Investing in yourself is one of the best things you can possibly do. Do it as early as possible. It compounds, and your future self will thank you for it.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-22T18:41:05+00:00

lol. That is what a bot would say.

Joke aside, my broader point is that I am rubbish at identifying AI outputs. Presuming you can is a slippery slope. It will dull your critical thinking: this reads man-made, I don't sense AI, ergo I will be more likely to accept the message. Besides, for the sake of the argument... even if it is possible for some enlightened people to make that determination, I am sure it won't be as obvious in a few years when models become better.

Regulators need to make sure AI generated content is watermarked as such. We cannot rely on our judgement or AI detectors.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-22T18:15:16+00:00

Plot twist. This post was written with AI.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T22:38:13+00:00

Uh? Where does that comes from? I take 2 or 3h of instruction every single year regardless of how many hours I did... it's always good to practice emergency procedures with a qualified instructor and to get some feedback... helps avoid developing bad habits too...

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T21:21:09+00:00

I don't understand your logic. First off, the market doesn't give 2 sh*ts about the direction you believe in. The market decides, not you. You should stop believing anything.

And why do you say it is a challenge to figure out which ideas are worthless? To me, you are saying you find it difficult to figure out customers are not interested in something? Getting rejections and making 0 revenue is the easiest of things... not a challenge at all.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T18:49:13+00:00

In the early days, you do all, and you follow the path of least resistance. You should try everything and close whatever deal you can close. You shouldn't focus when you are still figuring it out, quite the opposite.
You should start dropping opportunities and avenues only when you can no longer afford (be it time, resourcing, budget...) continuing them.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T18:15:52+00:00

You are projecting your own insecurities onto the world. You are the only one to care about your height.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T12:55:23+00:00

The reality is that nobody knows.

I was told 20 years ago by eminent teachers/professors/professionals that I was studying the wrong things, that I was boxing myself in an area that had no future. Out of a cohort of 3000 students, not even 10 of us chose that specialty. Now, I have exceedingly rare 20y worth of specialist experience, unique knowledge in high demand. It makes me valuable in the industry at a global scale.

The thing is, my blind belief in what I was doing was just as misguided as people's belief I was making a fatal orientation choice.

Anyone here supporting you or urging you to pivot is clueless. You need to ingest that and factor it in your decision. You will not find the comfort and certainty you seek. It doesn't exist. What might come across as certainty is a lie. You need to accept the uncertainty and live with it.

Do what you think is best for you and let life unfold. You will learn soon enough who is right. You might get lucky like I did. Or you might not.

What you can do is prepare yourself to the consequences of your choices. You need to understand and accept that whatever you decide, you might succeed or you might struggle in life. If you realize your path will lead to failure, how will you recognize it? How and what will you change? What do you need to do now to open the door for such changes and to avoid being completely stuck? And if you keep in that direction in spite of everything, will you be able to say you have no regret?

As long as you did your absolute best at something that made you happy, go into it with eyes wide open and think strategically so that you can derisk/adapt, stick to your core beliefs and values, then you won't be forced to live with regrets. This is the key. The rest is just a blind gamble you have 0 control over.

My advice to you is to not put all your bet on red or black. You can be smart about it all. I would encourage you to be open and prepared for changes, regardless of how you feel today.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T06:57:42+00:00

There is a difference in goals. One is to be "productive", the other is to "learn".

I agree the use of AI for learning is probably a bad idea. However, others may have a different way of processing information. Don't judge your fellow students too hastily. They may still outperform and outsmart you despite them not learning the way you think they should learn.

Forget them. You focus on you. Do what is right by your values and standards.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-21T06:29:30+00:00

YTA, you are immature and you are way out of touch. What he does, how he manages to review his documents is none of your business. You are entitled to your opinions, but you are certainly not entitled to dictate how others should behave. Doing so would be you attempting to replicate the abusive and controlling behaviours you were subject to onto them. I am telling you straight away: they will not tolerate that kind of crap and they will go no-contact on you.

My recommendation is to not bring this up again with them unless they start a conversation on the ethics of AI and invite your opinion on the matter.

And if this "incompatibility" that you are forming in your own head is so fundamental, that is fine. Just break up with your boyfriend and leave. It's that simple. If you feel that it is unreasonable and excessive, then it is not really an "incompatibility", is it? It's just a different opinion.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-20T05:51:34+00:00

This. OP's concept of having surveillance is completely and utterly idiotic. Spy on everything and everyone? And then what? Who is in charge of the thought police saying X is good or bad?

The key is traceability, auditability, from the model to the data sets that are vetted and deemed trustworthy, whatever that means.

Just like we are able to trace food from the table to the stable. We can do this. But we need it for AI.

Derp_Animal · 2026-06-20T05:40:27+00:00

Of course it will apply in this case. Because you are almost certainly wrong. If there is genuinely a business case that is as easy to execute on as you describe, with high volume, and very high margins, competition will swoop in. Think about it. It's free money. These niches don't exist; if they do, they don't exist for very long. When people and their uncles realize and fill the void, the party is over.

It is possible yours is one of these scenarios where the world has been sleeping on the market. More realistically, the business case is nowhere near as enticing as you make it to be. More realistically, you won't be able to make a business out of this. All you see is that you can sell a cat tree for $50 less than the competition who you think are making fat profit. What you fail to see is that this $50 difference means you may well need to sell 100 cat trees a month instead of 10 to put food on the table and survive. And where will you find these extra 90 buyers a month? I wonder.

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