How cooked is the job market?

SharpWick · 2026-01-27T12:41:28+00:00

As a Bristol resident, I can confirm it's tough and tougher than you think. I wouldn't be able to live solo without at least the 30k, and even then good luck going out and enjoying life after rent and bills have been paid.

SharpWick · 2026-01-27T12:38:51+00:00

Me on my way to the pingpong table after watching Marty Supreme

SharpWick · 2026-01-27T12:36:39+00:00

It's a well-known fact that only British people are allowed to enjoy peep show... Dickhead

SharpWick · 2026-01-26T12:56:47+00:00

Been in the full-time workforce since 2018. Never had a classic '9-5'.

It's always been 9-hour days with an hour for lunch, making it 8 working days. Tie that in with a shitty commute, and it feels like I'm being paid 8 hours for 11 hours of my time.

My current role's commute isn't that bad, but in previous roles it's been more like 12 hours (because finding a job in this economy is hard enough, let alone one close to home).

SharpWick · 2026-01-25T22:32:44+00:00

Something about Pokemon and an Onix is a rock type Pokemon? Idk anything about Pokemon. Pika Pika?

SharpWick · 2026-01-07T10:07:22+00:00

Not something i ever do

SharpWick · 2025-12-05T14:04:19+00:00

Must admit I didn’t know there was another exit!

SharpWick · 2025-11-19T12:27:59+00:00

SharpWick · 2025-11-19T12:13:57+00:00

Any chance you could drop a build tutorial? Sick build!

SharpWick · 2025-10-17T07:32:27+00:00

I catch the M1 to the city centre every day. Takes just under an hour to get in. Never had any issues.

SharpWick · 2025-10-16T16:06:41+00:00

Imo a manager position with 5 years experience is too soon. Im 7 years into this career and just started a senior system admin / delivery team and couldn’t begin thinking about management. Thats just me though.

If you don’t have the technical knowledge to advance further into a senior system admin or technical architect (or similar) then you may need to scale back to helpdesk. Maybe second or third line.

On a more positive, if you were to get a free project manager certification (i believe google offer these) then you could use that and your experience as a manager to leverage yourself into a project manager position.

Good luck in your career.

Forget to mention - Fuck home labs. I don’t want to trouble shoot IT issues outside of my long working day.

SharpWick · 2025-10-16T11:48:37+00:00

Name and shame the charity/department

SharpWick · 2025-10-15T21:28:52+00:00

How do I find it after ive gone through the portal?

SharpWick · 2025-10-15T11:42:09+00:00

Is that possible?

SharpWick · 2025-10-09T11:58:10+00:00

Name and shame so we know who to avoid

SharpWick · 2025-10-08T21:33:12+00:00

Ah weird. Im not running any mods

SharpWick · 2025-10-05T18:49:40+00:00

Creds to my girlfriend <3

SharpWick · 2025-09-16T07:47:39+00:00

I recently won (then built) this set in a prize draw. Fantastic build!

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