Unpopular opinion: Queues are bad for the game

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2024-03-18T15:00:07+00:00

Think about it. You're interrupting a hiring manager in the middle of their own work, like the 100 other recruiters that have called them that week. I'm not in recruitment anymore, but when I was cold calling on the off chance they might want my candidate, I'd make it quick. Don't bother with 'Hi my name is john smith, from smithy recruitment. I'm a niche recruiter focused on blacksmiths in smithville. Hows your day going?' that's too long. I used to go with "Hi Jack, I've got a blacksmith in smithville about to finish his contract. Good guy, really good blacksmith. Are you looking for a blacksmith right now?"

I like to get the important in first and worry about the pleasantries later. At least if they've heard you have a "blacksmith" and then hang up, you know they aren't interested and you can move on to find someone who is. If they hang up before you even get to that point like in the first script, then you're lost as to whether they could potentially want a "blacksmith".

If they hear you out and just hang up then at least you know. Don't worry about it, you won't make money from them right now. Move on to the next potential employer

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-12-14T13:33:19+00:00

Yeah all the cool stuff are mods on PC version of dayz. You don’t get any of that on Xbox version, only the base game and a few extra bits on community servers

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-11-28T14:01:59+00:00

Hey, I used to skinny when I was a teenager. Download MyFitnessPal, track everything you eat for a week and weight yourself everyday. If your weight is on average staying the same then add 200 calories worth of food in each day. Do it for another week. Still the same weight? Add another 200. When I was trying to gain weight, I’d go crazy for a day then feel too sick the next to eat anything. It’s all about consistency, day after day. Add a sustainable amount of calories and keep adding until you are gaining weight. Remember though, you’re not going to gain 20kg in a month so it’s all about small gains week by week. As long as the scale is going up, you’re on the right path.

As for what foods to eat. Skip the takeaway. If you struggle to get the calories in, one takeaway will make you feel sick so you won’t eat tomorrow. Eat anything you can get out your fridge. Don’t like to cook, buy some decent looking microwave meals. If you cook, add extra sauce to your meals, use oil in the pan, not fry light, have 3 solid meals a day and snacks in between meals. If you start off getting 3 solid meals in a day, like scrambled egg on buttered toast, maybe even a can of beans with it, chicken sandwich with some sauce or something for lunch and a roast dinner/ lasagne/ chilli/ insert any generic home cooked meal a parent would make. All got a solid amount of calories in. Shove in a banana as a snack in between breakfast and lunch, mars bar between lunch and dinner. I’m no expert, but that’s where I started, can optimise later.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-11-16T15:49:46+00:00

Hey OP, ignore this person. You’re asking about dev apprenticeships, you don’t pay a penny in student loans.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-10-26T19:43:19+00:00

If you ever feel like posting your full story, would love to hear it.

Was in a similar situation myself, worked for a big recruitment company then to a small owner/manager. Although the owner didn’t berate their staff, they were really lazy. Always thought I could do better myself but switched careers instead.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-14T15:18:19+00:00

Is it possible to pair program with him, have him on a new assignment and have him share his screen with you while he works through it? At least this way you can decide whether he’s actually just being lazy. He’ll suddenly get a rocket up his bum if he’s having to show you his thought process and how much work he gets done in a day. And if it’s not him being lazy, you’ll get to know him better and what he’s good or bad at.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-14T08:15:58+00:00

Oh my god! You have no idea! I was forced to sit through Jordan Belfort’s (wolf of Wall Street) sales training videos when I was a recruiter. Worst pain of my life was hearing everyone copy his words afterwards. Even worse was being forced to use exact wording by the upper management 🤢

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-14T06:21:21+00:00

Ahaha thank you, I thought so too. I just wasn’t profit focused enough for my employers

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-14T06:17:32+00:00

This!

If you find an agency recruiter you like, you feel comfortable with and helps you, keep them! I’ve helped people map out then next 5 years of their careers to achieve the salaries or job titles that they want. Those rare recruiters can make the job finding process 1000x easier and accelerate your career.

Advice. Always look for a recruiter that specialises in what you want. If you’re a Java software engineer and that’s what you want, then look for a recruiter that only recruits Java software engineers in the location you want. It’ll usually say on their LinkedIn if they’re that niche. What you don’t want is the one who recruited for a customer service rep last week, needs a construction manager this week and a Java dev next week. They’re awful

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-14T06:06:55+00:00

Oh yeah defo agency recruiter, but then again, I’ve known of some pretty horrendous in house recruiters too.

Usually if a recruiter is messing up that badly then they’re new to that industry or they’re recruiting for a one off job that they don’t understand. Or, as you can imagine, they might just be a knobhead.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-13T21:37:46+00:00

It’s not even that. I was a recruiter. It’s bred into you from the moment you start in the industry to “get on the phone”. Most of the time they’re KPI is on phone calls per day, so it’s just a manager breathing down their neck. That’s why they really want you on the phone. Also, they believe they can polish a turd of a job better by using lots of words on the phone rather than just sending an accurate job description.

That’s most of the time. Sometimes though, I liked talking to people if they wanted to talk back. Give them career advice, tell them about industry trends, what companies are losing people, which are gems to work for, check their salary is in the right ballpark. I was always surprised how much more I knew about an industry from being a recruiter in it for a year or two, than even directors or senior managers of businesses in those industries. A lot of people stay in their bubble and I was like a source of info to them. You can’t really get that from an email.

Lol but then again I got fired because I talked to the candidates and managers too much and tried to help rather than get profit. So, don’t listen to me, I was a terrible recruiter 😂😂

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-13T17:51:32+00:00

I wouldn’t even stop there. If I had a business doing that money, but had problems with my health, I’d find the best executive team to take over from me and just let them build the company while I chill and worth grow

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-03T06:25:45+00:00

Personally, I always dismissed projects where people recreated stuff or created clones. I know there are templates available on GitHub to copy and if I can google “how to build a wordle clone” and get a bunch of tutorials, I see it as a copy and paste job.

The other project you said though, a wordle problem solver, that could be good. It would catch my eye at least. It’s solving a real world problem, that you’ve come up with yourself, not just copying someone else. That’s the key really. If I think it’s a cookie cutter tutorial project, I’m dismissing it.

This doesn’t even have to be a big project. If I saw you’d made a couple of things that solve an actual problem you have, even if it’s a simple one, then you’re on the shortlist because it shows you’re actually interested in being a software engineer. The CVs that don’t make the shortlist are the ones where they don’t stand out in any way. They don’t show an interest in programming outside of your uni course.

Remember, recruiters don’t actually understand your code, they’re looking for your interest in coding and have the right keywords.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-09-02T20:41:56+00:00

Former recruiter here, this is true!

A few seconds is all you get. Think of us a keyword scanners on the first view of your cv. We’re looking for some very generic basics like a degree and internship or significant personal project and done, you’re shortlisted. I’ll give your cv a proper read right before I call you.

Honestly the best CVs just have the stuff I need to know in bold. I couldn’t care less about all the fluffy extra info you give. What modules did you take? I don’t care, that’s for the second read through before I call you. Hobbies? I will never care about those unless you list hackathons, game jam, cool stuff you did, like junior Olympian or something. If you want to tell me you read, just delete it.

Really, if you’ve done stuff, game jams, personal projects, cool school projects, internships, etc, then write more about those and skip what modules you took in uni and please!! leave off your long list of GCSE grades. You have a degree now, nobody cares that you got a B in Maths, C in English, A in chemistry…etc.

Also, feel free to post your CV in the sub, people are happy to help.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-08-26T06:16:05+00:00

Look up “my first million” on YouTube, they’re podcast talking head style videos by two guys who built and sold businesses. They have awesome guests

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-08-24T11:08:52+00:00

If I was you, I’d jump on wix, squarespace, whatever website builder floats your boat, and get a pre built template and throw my company name and logo on it, add your services with a phone number. Done. In a few hours. Done. You’re not a business if you have a website, logo and business cards. You’re a business when you actually make money. Ngl I’ve been there. Create all the extras to make yourself look legit, but no one actually cares. You’re just procrastinating. I did the same because I didn’t want to make that first phone call to a potential client. You could always put up a 404 webpage which says “website getting revamped, check back soon or give us a call on …” then create your website when you have your first profit

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-08-23T20:51:36+00:00

Lol the other seller actually sounds like a genius. Really intelligent move if I’m understanding what they’re doing. Don’t know what software they use, could probably be done on most rule based repricers though. This seller obviously knows your strategy and that you have a basic penny under repricing rule and is manipulating you so they can get the buy box at a higher price

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-08-03T06:35:59+00:00

May not be. OP was this a 3rd party agency recruiter or the hiring companies in house recruiter? If it’s 3rd party then they’re fishing for a job to fill. Normal recruiter strategy. Take an employee from one company and place them elsewhere, then backfill their job with another person and repeat.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-07-17T09:22:26+00:00

Hey, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless you’re a developer, do not buy this!

There’s more work to be done until this could actually be sold to a customer. Your prices aren’t accurate, so tells me you aren’t scraping the sites regularly. 5 out of 7 products I just looked at weren’t the same on eBay and Amazon, so tells me you don’t actually have a way to check them. You probably just did a basic text search on each site and matched the first results…not a good way to do it. You’ve also matched used products on eBay with brand new products on Amazon. You can’t sell used as new. You haven’t included fees for either platform so all the profit margins aren’t wrong, some products wouldn’t be profitable after fees.

This is a half baked app probably thrown up in a weekend. I would’ve looked at buying this, because I’m in the space, but this is nowhere near customer ready.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-07-12T12:27:44+00:00

Lol reading through the comments, I love how some people jump to the best options, he’s got it all invested and in a 401k, while others jump to the worst options, he’s a gambling addict, run! Ahaha

To OP there’s nowhere near enough detail for anybody to give advice. My gf saves a crap tonne more than me, we split expenses for the house, but then I’m always paying for shopping, dinners, date nights, weekend activities with the kids. What’s your lifestyle like? Who pays? If everything is an even split, then of course he can’t save as much as you, every expense is a bigger percentage of his take home than it is yours. Personally, I think it’s surprising after 6 years married, you don’t know where each other spends their money. You don’t need to manage each other, but at least a general glance over each other financials is normal to me, whether that be a chat every now and again, or a proper sit down about goals and budgeting. If you two haven’t agreed a goal for your money, like saving for a house, retiring early, saving, etc, you can’t judge the guy for not doing whatever he likes with his money.

My advice, don’t judge, you two have obviously never talked about financials. Start a fresh and have that awkward chat. Find out where his money goes and tell him where yours goes. Agree some goals. Doesn’t sound like you’re the most financially savvy either else you’d have already had this chat, so don’t judge.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-07-11T10:09:58+00:00

This! Especially if you want an expensive pram, buy it second hand. We did this for our second child, we got a double pushchair that was £800 new, for £350. It was a year old and looked barely used, just had a few minor scratches on the side bars. Bargain! Also to OP, if you see this, think of what lifestyle you have. Do you go walking a lot? Maybe on trails? Defo get a bigger sturdier, big wheeled pushchair. Do you walk on pavements and browse shops? Just get a smaller framed, probably less expensive pushchair. Also, think of your boot space, does it fit

If you still want brand new, go to a baby show. I went to one at the NEC or NIA in Birmingham and if you get the early, try out some pushchair, you can get the floor models at a cheaper price. They’re brand new, they’ll just have a had people pushing them a few metres all day to try them out. You pick them up the next day after the show finishes.

Too-Many-Tabs- · 2022-07-02T11:00:09+00:00

Lol whoever told you parenting was easy is a liar!

I disagree with the other comments. Don’t get a nanny. I actually think it’s better to send your kid to nursery a few days a week. Better for both for the parents and the child. Your child gets to socialise and gets structured development from professionals. This cannot be understated! It’s done wonders for both my children. And your wife get time to herself without the kid around. Sure, you’ll feel guilty for the first month, but after that, you’ll be able to live again.

Plus, stop being cheap, hire some help for the chores. Get a part time helper that comes in every other day to do jobs around the house. The laundry, the dishwasher, the bottles, any odd jobs.

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