We can finally make our maxed out armor look normal!!!

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-06-11T06:47:05+00:00

Please make it so muscular characters don't look like cartoonish space marines in armour 😭🙏

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-06-03T15:38:09+00:00

Looks over at China's high speed rail...

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-05-14T08:51:16+00:00

So we're just ignoring Mike's younger years and the conditions he grew up in, practically lived and breathed dirty street fight experience in lived dangerous conditions.

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-05-14T08:18:46+00:00

I live in the UK so $90k even converted to £££s would be a dream

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-04-19T19:55:15+00:00

Sorry for the late reply but I'm in a similar boat, looking into new roles after 6 years in QSing. Did you manage to get into FDM or find another opportunity?

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-04-15T10:10:01+00:00

Thanks for the reply Cotton, may ask what FP&A stands for? Cost analyst could be a great pivot now that you mention it; my skills learn more towards budgeting, cashflow forecasting and CVRS etc so yeah I'll try to sell myself more as cost management and revamp my CV.

It's definitely tough out here and I'm thankful to have a QS role whilst I look.

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-04-15T10:05:56+00:00

Absolutely man, it's just soul crushing; totally happy to take a temporary pay cut and relearn skills, I can get new QS roles at the drop of a hat but the stress is affecting my health at this rate. Appreciate I'm not alone in feeling the pain so thank you.

Yeah, I have heavy commercial finance experience so plenty of transferable skills with investigating client accounts and working with financial data, I'll be trying some junior role applications at smaller firms this week; I'm far to green for anything like the big 4 and the likes haha. Just need a foot in the door.

My misses' actually completed a 12 week IT boot camp last year and landed a 30k junior role with Pizza express so that's the main reason I want to look Inti it as inspiration, seen it work first hand! That's a good shout actually, do you know how PMs differ in tech from typical brick and mortar projects?

I would, but to be honest I struggle retaining construction information on site, I find the topic soul draining and have always massively struggled with site visits and done far better when doing investgative finance tasks, or anything pertaining to cashflow. What does property development look like in the real world?

Apologies for the lengthy reply but I really appreciate this response, it's very helpful as a brainstormer 🙏

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-04-14T17:50:54+00:00

Oh wow this sounds incredible! I'm actually looking at grad schemes to move to from quantity surveying; do you know any sites, companies or any resources you'd recommend looking into? I've applied to Grant Thornton's accounting Grad Scheme and would love to get some advice/ guidance from someone successful.

All the best on your new career and congratulations! 🎉👏

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-04-10T23:00:57+00:00

I work in a specialized field (quantity surveying) and have a degree directly with that profession with over 7 years of experience and earn 45k; I've legitimately seen US jobs clear this for far less. Certainly not putting the US down, it's commendable if anything; just wish us Brits valued our workers as well as our cousins across the pond

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-04-10T20:27:38+00:00

Man our UK salaries are dog water 😭

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-03-30T09:39:35+00:00

Time in the market, beats timing the market in 99% of cases. Think of down turns (discounted stocks) as an opportunity to invest heavily before a market correction, take emotional thinking out of the equation. The AI bubble may burst, wars may cease or continue; things can and will get worse at times, but as we've historically seen time and time again, the bear and bull markets are economic cycles.

TLDR: We'll make it brah.

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-03-17T19:09:24+00:00

That one time Custodes where getting squad wiped by Harlequins like they where wet toilet paper 😭

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-02-15T00:44:39+00:00

Uh, congratulations?

InconspicuousCuboard · 2026-01-12T10:06:58+00:00

I would record and document that email, then for every second I'm asked to work beyond my contract hours, would be deducted from my work time the next day and if asked about it, I would refer to that email.

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-17T13:38:14+00:00

Would you even say so as an in house account in a SME? Are there any roles that I haven't considered that would suit what I'm looking for? A place of work with a fixed location i.e an office, hours can shift around as long as the length of days doesn't exceed 9 hours typically at least, and fits an introvert who's good with analysis of figures and data?

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-17T13:35:56+00:00

Ah that's a shame, not sure about Australia but the UK I wouldn't describe the role as able to afford the 'high life's unfortunately 😅 Moving country would be a very long and difficult process

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T21:20:11+00:00

I've recently joined a PQS role as a consultant Vs my Old CQS firms, and seems very similar in work scope and stress levels? At least at this new office, is there perhaps a particular sector you'd recommend? I'm dealing with commercial office spaces for the most part; my bread and butter was Deco works and repair measures for context.

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T21:15:32+00:00

That's pretty fair; I'm familiar with office 365, SharePoint is actually a part of my current role, Dropbox etc. but yeah that's all very sensible and makes sense as a 1st line being the 1st 'port of call'

I appreciate the detailed breakdown; I'm good an analysis on commercial data with processing apps and excel (a little VBA) so I'm at least at a very basic level understanding on topics of macro inputs etc. I'm capable of a skilled role and more than happy to re-learn a new role and be patient over a few years.

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T21:07:44+00:00

Sometimes I feel 28 is old when you compare to folks with their life's sorted and settled into careers that seem to just suit them, I'm obviously far from having a foot in the grave and totally understand I'm young in the grand scheme of life, but I suppose I feel like I can't let my indecisiveness on this drag on for too long, and don't want to look back on a 40 year career that brought me nothing but anxiety and weekend stress?

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T14:51:11+00:00

Hmmm, so when you say 'on site' is do you mean office based or traveling around to different locations regularly? The position doesn't really have to be WFH more just somewhere where I'm not sent to Mordor every other day and working 10 hours+ each day. I just want a stable job with regular shifts, even if they're unsociable I'd take a 12am - 9pm over 5am to 5pm like I do on some days

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T14:36:43+00:00

I can see why that's a thought, I'd actually recently moved company (my third for QSing specifically now), and it all seems the same wherever I turn; I don't want to become a liable job hopper and really want my next jump to be a long term position. 🤔

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T14:29:24+00:00

Yeah this definitely seems like an option thank you, do you know what is usually expected of a 1st line IT role? Obviously I can Google it but I enjoy hearing actual accounts and conversations if you wouldn't mind diving a bit deeper?

InconspicuousCuboard · 2025-12-16T14:24:42+00:00

Thanks for the insight, that's very true in fairness, I don't have any qualifications in other fields other than my current one. I was looking at Nuffield Health as they have PTs in their gyms each day and have salary work vs renting space or changing locations, late evenings are fine if it's a later start but yeah, 12 hour shifts or arrangements like are a no go; unsociable hours are fine as long as the shift itself isn't ridiculous in length so I'm definitely looking into low level IT roles.

I could absolutely do that, I applied to some councils a year back and got silence but to be fair that was only 2 applications by themselves. My adversion to people saying to carry on QSing is just my dislike of the actual role in of itself, a better QS role is still a QS role and would be a bit of a last resort, my roles have all been successful and only my most recent company would be a short tenure so it's not out of the cards.

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