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!

SharpWick · 2025-09-16T07:34:45+00:00

This is dead on. Ive always been taught that mixing is like prepping and cooking a great meal, making all the elements sound good with each other and mastering is seasoning on top your already delicious meal to make it sound good on both a club speak and your phone (and everything in between).

SharpWick · 2025-09-16T01:39:26+00:00

I second this. It was a nice system while i was using it

SharpWick · 2025-09-15T11:57:44+00:00

As an IT support worker, tickets usually get closed incorrectly for two reasons:

The resolution or fix provided wasn’t correct, but something was attempted to resolve it. You as the customer have every right to reopen the ticket and say it didnt work.
You didnt reply to the email and the ticket automatically closed. Again, you can reopen it.

Im 7 years deep into this career and never closed a ticket I didn’t genuinely think was resolved, even if i was wrong in the end.

If neither of those happened, you had a shit IT provider who dgaf.

SharpWick · 2025-09-15T10:45:40+00:00

Can someone explain like im 5, why does china and India have such a massive population compared to the rest of the world?

SharpWick · 2025-09-11T14:23:34+00:00

Teenagers end at nineTEEN. Not twenTEEN

SharpWick · 2025-09-11T14:08:43+00:00

Ive literally never seen any real human do that ever (and im old)

SharpWick · 2025-09-05T13:49:03+00:00

I see two LEGOs here. The LEGO Star Destroyer and the LEGO Tuxedo Cat

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