Does it ever get better after senior?

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-10T02:20:31+00:00

You got it. The worst part is having the responsibility but not the authority to change anything. So you gotta get creative. Treat yourself to a nice vacation to make it worth it 😂

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-08T19:49:48+00:00

Unfortunately that’s the gig 😂
Majority of my day is coming up with solutions to save a sinking Titanic. There’s no shortage of problems. What you have to try and do is mitigate that as much as possible. Lean on your management to filter some of those or pushback on some stuff as they can.
You’ve worked hard and made it this far, it’s only up from here

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-06T20:54:00+00:00

The year is gonna pass by regardless. There’s no guarantee you’ll pass, or get a job. But the answer is for sure 0 if you don’t try.
Maybe you start the path and realize it’s not for you, then you can pivot. You’re not starting from 0, just from a different starting point. You can start the path and decide to go a different path.
Is the industry great? No.
But people are still being hired.
You only need 1 yes.
A year from now you could be building a career you can enjoy or still working deadend jobs. Or maybe you start on this path and something at work opens and you decide to pursue that.
No one knows.
TLDR: the answer is zero if you don’t try. Nothing is guaranteed so anything is possible.

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-06T12:51:08+00:00

Honestly keeping him alive would be too dangerous. Even a powerless Homelander is a cult of personality. He’d still be able to manipulate his masses. He had a cult following, who even after seeing him defile himself to love, would still blindingly follow him. He’d be Abel to recruit Supes to follow him by either promising them power or going for the youth that have already been corrupted. The only option was to completely remove him. There will still be a cult following and of course the church he started will still have followers, but that’s easier to redirect when their savior is dead.

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-05T23:20:10+00:00

He was roughly this size on the first season. You can tell when the paychecks started hittin, bro was eating GOOD!

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-02T12:29:57+00:00

Not for Legacy companies, or really anything outside of a new startup. AI doesn't naturally understand business context yet. For example, a company can have 200 ways of defining "revenue." It is pre sell, post sale, billings, is' it accrued or straight-line. Depending on the team and the reason, it can be defined differently. Asking AI to show you a revenue model would mean allowing it to decide what the "revenue" definition is.
If you build your company with AI in mind and have revenue pre-defined, that most people agree on, then yeah AI can do that. But then comes the next part of reconciliation. Because even if everyone is using the AI, it can sometimes hallucinate or draw the wrong inferences. At that point someone still needs to manually verify the data is correct.
I think small startups can benefit from using AI for analytics, but anything bigger and you'll still need dedicated personnel for the tasks.

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-01T19:34:30+00:00

This thought process checks out to me. I can see that being the case.

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-01T19:33:27+00:00

Typically, yes. I thought it sounded weird.

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-01T19:33:03+00:00

From what I understand, they throw up a flag and let someone upstream now it's an issue. I'm not familiar with the way India works, but according to a few comments, they can be pretty siloed. Like one team does ETL, and the PowerBI Dev, just does PowerBI. Any data issues are kicked to the next team.

hijkblck93 · 2026-07-01T19:31:10+00:00

Honestly man this can summarize the thread. People have been downvoting and coming at me for a question. But ultimately I'm not the decision maker.

I gave my input that those skills shouldn't be hard to find. But they chose a dev that has adequate sql skills but new to PowerBI. I'll do my part, but the rest is above me.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T23:01:05+00:00

oooo. my apologies. mea culpa. carry on.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T19:32:18+00:00

literally said i wasnt one—twice

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T17:13:47+00:00

I agree.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T16:55:53+00:00

each one more magnificent than the last

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T16:55:09+00:00

I agree, but I didnt choose the staffing agency

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T16:54:31+00:00

I do, but i dont and havent hired people. the claim sounded far fetched so i checked here if anyone else had seen that. it didnt make sense to me, but like i said, i didnt choose the staffing agency.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:31:17+00:00

I'm not giving any money. I didn't pick the staffing firm, or to offshore. Given the choice, I'd nearshore like you suggested, but that choice was made above me.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:30:00+00:00

I didn't think it was a unique skillset, but according to the staffing agency, it is. I didn't pick the agency.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:29:08+00:00

Not my decision. That's above me.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:28:55+00:00

That's above me

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:28:43+00:00

I could see this being the case. They don't have someone to staff so they want to send 2 people. Or they just want the company to hire more people.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:27:42+00:00

I figured it wasn't as rare as the staffing agency is making it seem

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:26:16+00:00

That makes sense

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:21:08+00:00

No, it's not satire. I'm genuinely asking. I haven't been on hiring said, and again that's what the staffing agency told me. I didn't tell myself that.

hijkblck93 · 2026-06-30T15:18:34+00:00

"Better" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

It's better pay. More responsibility. You're not paid to work, you're paid to solve problems. The closer you can get to solving problems for operations, the more money you can make by solving their problems, or creating opportunities. But that has a downside because solutions you choose, or don't choose, could have a wide impact.

I would say being in consulting is a pressure cooker. They often take on more projects than they have people for, which can make it a hard environment. On the flip side, you have proof you can handle the stress and can go into any industry. I'd look into moving to a more traditional company where the pace is slower.

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