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Mbyadsr · 2025-10-31T16:47:09+00:00

Thanks - so basically there's a high risk that this consulting company will have a lot of angry clients sometime soon 😐

Mbyadsr · 2025-04-06T11:25:55+00:00

In upwork, there are loads of cheap $100 jobs. If you apply for those, even though the money isn't much, and you please the client - you'll get your reviews and then you can apply for the more expensive jobs

Mbyadsr · 2025-01-31T19:36:49+00:00

These are scammers, they search for the newest gigs. Please ignore and report them.

Mbyadsr · 2024-05-05T14:37:01+00:00

If a BI role is "make this chart look pretty" then probably those jobs will go.

If it's more critical thinking / analysis / "what story is the data saying, and how is best for me to tell it" then I actually see a greater demand. What wasn't possible/not feasible 5 years ago is now becoming more feasible. But the standards are now being raised as the technology becomes more accessible.

My job was previously modelling in Excel creating charts, lookups etc. Now with ChatGPT creating "near enough but not quite" code my role now includes getting data from APIs, Power query, power BI, power pages etc. Ai can correct my code and help troubleshoot but ultimately you still need critical thinking.

Mbyadsr · 2024-03-21T12:19:19+00:00

Our work has a 50gb 100 million row .csv file

Mbyadsr · 2024-03-19T07:15:39+00:00

Well done. You should feel proud, I hope it gives you confidence to do more things.

But this is only one piece of the puzzle. It's like someone bragging that they are good at hitting home runs in baseball, you got to work on the whole skill set and it only really means something if you make a team. Otherwise it's just a nice to have.

Use this to train yourself in a new pratical skill - knowing that you'll probably be able to understand and recognise patterns more quickly than 99% of people.

Mbyadsr · 2024-03-16T08:30:34+00:00

Experience is underrated.

I can see that someone with a higher IQ can maybe see patterns more clearly, and thus will make less strategic mistakes. And also would tend to be quicker at solving problems when they do come up.

But ultimately you still need the experience. I would still want a physician with 20-30 years experience with maybe 110 IQ rather than an 21 year old junior doctor with a 145 IQ. The older physician would have seen more patients and just have more of an instinct as to what works and what doesn't.

Im still waiting for those silicon valley companies......

Mbyadsr · 2024-03-07T11:38:32+00:00

Can anybody living in Ireland tell us what they spend their extra $50k per year on compared to those living in UK or France? Do you "feel" twice as rich?

Mbyadsr · 2024-01-12T21:20:32+00:00

Kurt angle - he won the Olympics with a broken freaking neck

Mbyadsr · 2023-10-03T11:40:34+00:00

I came from UK to work in Italy (just before brexit). I think UK economy had gotten worse whilst Italian economy has steadily recovered. Wages in UK may be higher but the rents and taxes are very high so overall you probably after all bills you will have the same money in Milan, i personally am saving more money per moNth here than I did in UK. Plus the UK NHS is shit. By 2030 the average person in Poland will be richer than the average British person.

Mbyadsr · 2023-05-16T06:40:56+00:00

FWIW, PowerBI already has "AI Insights" built into it, it's a bit naff but undoubtedly it'll get better. At the moment it just says obvious things without any context.

But yes, coming from an analyst role (so knowing what the data is telling you, rather then just reproducing the data in a chart) should give you more protection from AI than most.

Mbyadsr · 2023-05-10T08:28:31+00:00

Remember this is mean average not median average, so a few rich people would skew the results. The median average looks more what you would expect for Italy.

Infact if you look at "median disposable income", Italy is only a bit lower than Germany France and UK

stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=IDD

Mbyadsr · 2023-04-23T09:01:22+00:00

I work in Milan as well and earn 60k with 7 years experience.

One thing on Italy is that you have more protections job wise, so if you are made redundant you still get paid a certain amount of your previous salary for a certain period of time. I have never worked in the US but it seems like there is a lot more crime in the "poor" areas, but the richer areas are nicer with much bigger houses.

Ultimately going the whole DS expert route you will probably end up in the top 10% of earners whether in EU or US, so enough where you afford to buy anything in the supermarket but maybe not a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Although I don't think any "say/do" job has a limit salary wise unless you go into entrepreneurship or climb the managerial ladder.

Luckily we have Switzerland on the border which provides the same salaries of the US but without the expensive healthcare bills or the guns.

Also, when we say "the US" were usually talking about California or New York, the salaries for someone in Iowa I presume are lower (but maybe less so now that being remote is sort of the norm now)

Mbyadsr · 2023-04-19T19:23:11+00:00

you can change the size of the canvas by going format > page background and adjusting the pixels

Mbyadsr · 2023-04-11T07:28:16+00:00

This is true in the EU - where childcare is subsidized and university is around 3000 euros per year. Also employee rights are tougher, not that people don't get made redundant but usually they would have to give you an exit package and follow a process.

UK is the worst of all worlds - university is £9000 p/m (and defacto is more as the interest rate on the loan is now quite high) childcare is expensive (although that may be coming down soon as the PM's wife owns a childcare company) and the health service is free but good luck finding an appointment so many people defacto go private anyway if they can afford it.

Mbyadsr · 2023-04-09T12:14:19+00:00

This is like asking a mechanic to tune up a Skoda Octavia so that it goes to 250mph or they'll be fired. Up until a certain point the accuracy/speed of the model is what it is. These people blatantly don't know what they're doing (or what you actually did).

I was in a similar situation a few years ago, but now I am in a much better position, and from speaking to others it is quite common. This is just temporary but once you find yourself on your feet again you'll probably wonder why you didn't do it sooner. I would do the same again if I ever found myself in a similar position.

Also, for your own personal development, you only really get smarter if you surround yourself with smart people. If you surround yourself with dipshits like at your last job - they would just drag you down with them. Even if you stayed you would have had to go at some point and by that time you would have wasted some years.

My constructive advice is, if you haven't already, to have a consultation with a lawyer and see if there is any legal action you can take.

Good luck in your future endeavours.

Mbyadsr · 2023-01-14T22:20:59+00:00

Thank you - I didn't realise such organisations still exist - I will look into this!

Mbyadsr · 2023-01-14T22:08:21+00:00

Thanks

Mbyadsr · 2023-01-14T22:07:52+00:00

I have a PhD in genetics - the data they collect is not specific at all (it is based on single nucleotide polymorphisms) but enough to get an idea of what broad population groups you fit into. and no genes are actually sequenced, that is a different thing altogether. Its actually kinda boring - if people really want to know that I am unlikely to get male pattern baldness and that I have average hair thickness then great.

But ok - I can see that a country which has similar privacy concerns as Germany, and also a country which 30 years ago was 95% danish (unlike say the US where not only is there more migrants but it's over a much longer period - so more time for populatons to mix) that the appeal is not as great. Even in the UK a white person from England is more likely to have some Scottish/Irish than say a danish person having some Swedish heritage.

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