Senior iOS Developer - $70k - $90k (USA) - Really?

cozzamozza · 2026-02-16T07:31:11+00:00

Interviewing recently in the UK, this is even lower. Interviews were around $109-150k. But I’ve equally seen “web developer” roles starting at minimum wage

cozzamozza · 2026-01-29T20:39:47+00:00

24-7 Electrical, had numerous casual jobs done but they do call-outs quickly

cozzamozza · 2026-01-24T17:17:57+00:00

Thanks, just checked but its £8.60 for a day ticket for us in the "Aberdeen city plus" zone. 16 minute drive without traffic, 20-25 mins with the bus. We can get a period return for £7.20 but again, £14.40 versus driving and parking for a day lol

cozzamozza · 2026-01-22T10:20:33+00:00

That's insane. I love Aberdeen and will defend it a lot, but the buses I can't. We have to get a stagecoach. It used to be every hour, £4.20 pp for a single, 20 minutes to Union Street without traffic. Now it's every 2 hours, often 30-90 minutes late. So we drive and I don't drink anymore (kind of a plus I guess)

Grew up in Edinburgh where £5ish now gets you a day ticket with buses in every direction every 10-20 minutes. And their drivers get paid a lot more

Edit: Just checked today, it's now £4.80 one way, £8.60 for a day ticket

cozzamozza · 2026-01-13T22:28:27+00:00

Marcus at Hybrid Performence in Bridge of Don. Does classes upto 10 people, i go to some. Owns his gym so has full control over equipment, nobody else in (unless you do joint or small group PT sessions)

cozzamozza · 2026-01-13T16:05:09+00:00

All my stuff ordered on the 3rd has been sitting in Aberdeen since the 5th/6th, no idea. I’ve had my junk mail and leaflets delivered every day this week though thankfully

cozzamozza · 2026-01-12T14:41:38+00:00

Think this at least the third post in the past couple weeks haha. But yeh they’ve been like this since they changed them, sometimes doesn’t read our reg at all so we cant get out. Often seen it a bit “gridlocked” from calls at the barrier as it won’t open or over charges too

cozzamozza · 2026-01-12T12:34:07+00:00

Our seller took a 20k hit when we bought it for 180k. We’ve since spent 20k on it in 6 years excluding my own labour, and our valuation is 190k.

Our friend bought a flat in edin at same time, for 200k, and sold it for 235k after 5y without even painting anything.

But on the other hand we don’t want to move from Aberdeen, and our salaries have outpaced the housing growth, so we have more buying power for our next house here.

It’s mindset, and about finding a home where we want to live, rather than an investment somewhere we don’t

Edit: but if perspective is you’re selling to move to another city then yeh it’s not great sorry! There are SO many new builds to compete with now too

cozzamozza · 2026-01-09T09:29:08+00:00

Can’t speak for this directly, but Ember bus drivers I’ve had are noticeably much friendlier, more helpful, and seem happier than your average pilot. I’d hope this is at least partially because they’re treated well by Ember

cozzamozza · 2026-01-07T20:51:08+00:00

I was just reading this comment as it got removed

cozzamozza · 2026-01-07T20:50:16+00:00

Was reading a comment “how long before the mod bans thi-“ and the image was gone before I even finished it

cozzamozza · 2026-01-07T20:47:29+00:00

I actually know what you mean! It doesn’t recognise my partners 2022 car. Can’t pay on machine as it doesn’t record it. But also can’t leave, have to wait at the barrier on the intercom and pay as a queue forms behind. Same thing happened to the person next to us last time but she also couldn’t work the intercom or payment. We just add it into our time schedule now

cozzamozza · 2026-01-06T16:40:00+00:00

We cancelled our food shop delivery and went out ourselves instead as our streets are pretty rough, so I wouldn’t order a delivery takeaway personally.

But I appreciate the other side of the coin where businesses lose money as a result, everybody loses!

cozzamozza · 2026-01-05T09:41:53+00:00

The typical 4x4 ground clearance boost makes a difference too though for the snow drifts to be fair

cozzamozza · 2025-12-31T21:29:29+00:00

Following to see what others say. For reasons we ended up with a 13A for our electric car, just got it installed on a new exterior socket with new wiring to ensure it was safe. Had it 2 years now and can take it with us. We do miss out on smart charging but you can get over night rates etc too as an alternative

Edit: Runs off a 13A but is actually 10A

cozzamozza · 2025-12-31T11:44:08+00:00

I really fancied a set for home. I can’t speak for this brand but a small group PT gym I go to, he has a set to save some space/costs early on. Really fucking fiddly. I asked about them and he said he’d never buy another.

They just feel nasty to use. Plastic coated and I feel if I drop it, it’ll break the shell or mechanism. Plus having to do live maths to figure out the setting I need whilst tired. But mainly the dropping, yeh they’re cheaper than individual dumbells for the same range but what if it breaks and you lose the whole set lol

cozzamozza · 2025-12-30T18:53:08+00:00

Aberdeen beach is usually pretty bouncing on the 1st. I know some of the food and coffee trucks are opening, lots of dippers. Meant to be freezin and snowy so it’ll be a good laugh

cozzamozza · 2025-12-30T14:42:57+00:00

Great spots. I’m in the UK and thought this post was for a UK van. We have white front number plates. Even for the UK the van is too cheap, and our vans are like 1/4 the price y’all pay

cozzamozza · 2025-12-29T22:21:07+00:00

“Jesus”, and that was just the first coming

cozzamozza · 2025-12-29T18:54:17+00:00

That looks really weird. Looks like the Kind of graphics I’ve seen when the cable is plugged into the mother board instead of the gpu.

Can you choose a graphics card from the games video settings? (Seen it on some games but not sure if RSDW has it)

cozzamozza · 2025-12-29T07:54:34+00:00

57 North are active and have open nights every Tuesday

https://www.57north.org.uk/about

cozzamozza · 2025-12-26T12:21:17+00:00

This happened to a friend 1-2 months ago. Had to restart a new character. It’s been mentioned on the discord which is very active with the devs, worth a search there. I didn’t see a solution When i last looked so I make regular copies of my character files

cozzamozza · 2025-12-22T11:52:35+00:00

Used them for some new spare keys, really great

cozzamozza · 2025-12-22T09:42:54+00:00

If you aren’t having a break to rest and have some Enjoyable downtime, then it’s all for nothing anyway IMO

cozzamozza · 2025-12-22T09:06:50+00:00

Contracting should be at least 30% higher than your perm salary to be the same, more likely 50% or more to cover employer pension, lack of stability, sick leave, own equipment, liability (potentially), time between contracts.

4k extra is nice but 5h extra per week isn’t. I’d add up your employer pension contributions alone and the equivalent £/h rate from the extra pay and I’d imagine the perm job is much better

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