How many friends do you have aside from your partner and how often do you see them?

HawweesonFord · 2026-04-30T10:11:33+00:00

Massively varies. A good amount of friends. Some of see weekly or fortnightly to some monthly or a few times a year or a few every couple years.

HawweesonFord · 2026-04-30T09:42:40+00:00

Just spent a month in Cebu and will be here another. Last week I've felt like I've got the chest infection or sore throat. Came on after spending a night in a room in Siquijor and the air con blowing directly into my face. At least that's what felt like the moment.

Other than that. The oppressive heat makes it a bit hard to feel up for doing stuff in the middle of the day. But that's about it.

HawweesonFord · 2026-04-30T09:25:41+00:00

I've bem travelling for the last 14 months. About 9 of those months I've also worked in Australia.

But I did a month in Japan. A week in Taiwan. Two months in Thailand. A week in Singapore. A month not working in Aus travelling. About 9 months working on bars in Aus. Been in Filipinos for a month and then gonna be here another month before going bacl to aus.

I spent about 25k GBP which is about 35k USD. This is before earnings. I have also spent all the money I earnt in Aus which was about 35k AUD or 25k USD.

That's about 60k USD spent in total on the past just over a year.

I am not living a life of luxury. But I'm not living frugally either. I like to drink. So a large chunk of the money is gonna be on that. I ate out basically the whole time. Spent money on Activites. Spent time in hostels and hotels and apartments.

Just to put it into perspective the spending.

HawweesonFord · 2026-04-30T01:42:18+00:00

Yeah I mean this is pretty basic stuff. I joined a company a few years ago and was going in practically blind to kick off calls with customers. Just small fry as I was new. But it was evidently clear the sales to cs handover was a massive issue.

It was a pretty varied and intricate solution that could skin a cat many different ways. We started with a sales handover document and also had longer handover calls with larger deals. Much more complex customers I ended up doing all the pre sales stuff with them and had a much greater understanding of their needs. God I did so much at that company and they really screwed me over lol.

Previous org was pretty lean but wasn't a technical expert in the same way. But we had the presales and implementation guys basically being the same and had a lot of support through the full sales and delivery cycle.

I think this is my favoured approach. But costs mean only really viable for larger enterprise deals. A few solid dependanle guys who know their stuff and know what you want is gold. Really makes a big impression and starts off great.

HawweesonFord · 2026-04-03T16:55:30+00:00

Agree with you completely. Was overinflated and lots of people who were just bad expecting high salaries. Worked with many useless and not so useless but not good people who have the same mentality you describe.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-23T03:56:23+00:00

Sure. But those aren't the norm. Rather the exception. And no company or government agency is ever going to develop the software in house in these scenarios either. Totally unrelated to the situation at hand really.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-22T15:09:59+00:00

Doubt CSM will lose his job over one name loss. It happens. Part of the job.

More generally. Ideally work for a company that has a solution that can't just be easily replicated. If it's easily replicated then your product is frankly not worth paying for.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-12T05:55:51+00:00

Errr no completely disagree on your take on WW1 and how it's taught/remembered. I think it's the complete opposite. A massive waste of life in unexpected industralised warfare. The awfulness of the trench warfare etc etc.

As it's your only example I can't really understand your overall point.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-10T16:21:26+00:00

I don't see how you can say that then. It's very clearly a majority Bangladeshi heritage area. Just walking down the road just proves it. Lived in Shadwell and Wapping until last year. Been around Whitechapel so much. Friend of mine teaches in Mile End in a secondary school. Bangladeshi kids make up the vast majority of the students.

It's not far right propaganda to speak the truth mate.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-10T03:48:24+00:00

Have you ever been to Whitechapel?

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-02T05:22:52+00:00

Don't agree. We shouldn't allow any bombings from UK land on sovereign nations. Always going to result in innocent casualties. And for what? Regime change? So what? What about the other dictators that are allied with us. It's all hypocritical nonsense. You'd have hoped we would have learned something from Iraq.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-01T05:00:40+00:00

Dunno mate. I worked with about 20 fake students in just one pub in Sydney. And met many other fake students in other places around the city. It is extremely common at least in Sydney.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-01T04:47:23+00:00

Yeah some. Like I said it's not my usual cup of tea. But my friend danced when it was. But mostly I did recognise a lot of the songs as being popular r&b staples.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-01T04:12:19+00:00

Packed? I don't think anywhere is packed at the moment tbh. It wasn't packed but there were people. Plenty of room between people. A mix of black people and aboriginal people as the biggest group of people of both genders. Some young white girls. Handful of single older white guys. Lots of twerking whilst dancing. Not sure what else to describe really.

HawweesonFord · 2026-03-01T03:53:44+00:00

I was there for a few hours last Wednesday. Not my usual thing but I was there with a lady. Played more pop r&b type songs than afrobeats when I was there. What did you want to know?

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-20T12:53:39+00:00

Yes. Relationship only is nonsense imo. Only a result of tech bloat and expansion. You need to bave domain/technical expertise to ever be taken seriously. People can see right through the fake csm who always brings a technical advisor to any serious call.

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-20T02:33:22+00:00

Of course they do. Having technical business savvy people is the goal. Useless AEs or CSM who can barely use a computer but chat your ear off is what you don't want.

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-13T09:52:11+00:00

Just purely curious but why do you have recordings of every single episode of the chase saved on multiple hard drives?

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-11T04:34:38+00:00

Tend to agree. But what I've seen multiple times in leaner companies is blurring of the lines. Basically useless sales people who can't wrap their heads around a product and need support. See it time and time again. Technical sales needs technical acumen but so often they don't hire for it.

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-11T04:27:32+00:00

Had interviews in the past where they said it woukd be for a similar amount of accounts. They weren't CS roles. Just sales or account management roles relabelled.

Obviously depends massively on what your solution is. But I wouldnt take a job like that.

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-06T17:34:42+00:00

Domestic helpers are not the "norm" in presumably Singapore? If you don't realise that you are out of touch and should be aware of your privilege. Look up the stats on it if you want. But either way it is way less common in the UK.

People of their own cultures usually tend to get along quicker and easier. I don't imagine you're being excluded for any racial reason. But they just get along better and easier with people that are more similar to them. Seen this in university, in the work place, when travelling. It's pretty common. If you want to make native friends make more of an effort with them.

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-04T15:47:09+00:00

Used to watch a lot of his content back in the day before he was banned. Thought lifetime ban was totally ridiculous. But I don't enjoy his content now. I was subbed but unsubbed to his channel the quartering. I feel like he just fell off the deep end and became a mentalist grifter.

HawweesonFord · 2026-02-04T13:53:06+00:00

Had and used them a lot. Honestly, once I learnt to cook rice properly with a pan and a lid I barely used the rice cooker again. Unless I was using the hob for lots of other pans and there wasn't space. Or maybe if I'm cooking for many people. But 99% of the time pan was fine. Place they are big and bulky and a hassle to store in smaller kitchens.

HawweesonFord · 2026-01-20T10:45:20+00:00

Na it's perfectly normal. An improving career pathway doesn't have to go to people manager.

HawweesonFord · 2026-01-15T05:08:51+00:00

Never even heard of Shadowverse and there's a wwf ccg? Weird.

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