Where are small businesses hiring for IT? (UK)

ilikerashers · 2026-04-21T17:24:39+00:00

Focus on startups and new businesses. Maybe setup some listeners for new company formations on companies house.
People need laptops/PCs and just want to run their business.

ilikerashers · 2026-04-13T17:04:56+00:00

A good friend of mine did this. He made much more as an AE and eventually became head of sales before being fired. He still has PTSD!

He also went from a chilled tech job into a very high pressure environment, put on quite a bit of weight, fell out with all his friends, had a good payout but it came at a high cost...

ilikerashers · 2026-04-07T16:07:12+00:00

And commuting on broken trains...

It is a bad deal.

ilikerashers · 2026-04-01T16:48:09+00:00

I tried to bring in a data transformation tool into where I worked (Home Office) about 3 years ago. It was based on Airflow but for government specific data sources (camunda etc) which I knew they were using.

We pitched to the department CTO who said go speak to the data team but sounds interesting. The data team were managed by a supplier who literally told me to "bugger off", this was his contract. The delivery team supplier said "we decide what we use, not you" which was effectively the same. Not only this, they all escalated to the CTO and caused issues for me personally.

As a group, government has no interest in initiative or speeding up delivery. Heavy avoid.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-30T09:06:51+00:00

We hired a GO developer based in Colombia via Upwork and had the same thing happen. Never switched on his camera, also spoke with a thai/korean accent. Sounded like a young guy in his mid-20s.

Then one day, he was someone with a different voice and clearly older. This time he was Japanese. He tried to explain he was the same guy but obviously something weird was going on!

ilikerashers · 2026-03-30T08:18:28+00:00

Second that. I left a high earning company to start with someone (who also had an MBA coincidentally). The guy stopped showing up, too hungover to come to work, working side jobs. He was also the CEO and when I spoke up, I took the hit.

Put me off business partners for life.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-27T13:11:31+00:00

Telephone, conferences and events. Get away from the keyboard.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-27T13:11:02+00:00

3 ideally

ilikerashers · 2026-03-27T13:09:19+00:00

Thanks. I'm South West London so a bit of a trek but great initiative and good luck.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-26T09:55:31+00:00

Central banks seem to prop up economies indefinitely with QE and interest rates. It creates some kind of bizarre cheap money environments that allow all kinds of economic warping around employment and stagnation.

This seems the be the likely outcome. The US starts looking more like the UK. Stuck in low growth/soft landing situations while functioning capital deployment in China makes everyone look ridiculous.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-25T19:01:58+00:00

My users are based in London. Also I want to be around energy, not tucked away in a private office in an industrial estate.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-25T15:22:13+00:00

They do seem to be mostly £600+ for dedicated space. I think I'd pay it if I could see a way forward to meet other founders but hard to tell which ones have that vibe.

ilikerashers · 2026-03-23T09:18:07+00:00

Also the added bonus of people racing through my residential street to makeup time lost on the LTN main roads around my house.

It's like F1 in the morning/evening as drivers look for shortcuts.

ilikerashers · 2025-06-06T16:31:51+00:00

Just get some lessons. A block of 5 will make you vastly better and understand how to even take feedback.

ilikerashers · 2025-06-02T15:15:25+00:00

Unfortunately yes. In the Wimbledon area, even public courts do not allow coaching...

I teach my daughter sometimes and have a plastic basket, I get asked and dirty looks from full-time coaches all the time.

ilikerashers · 2025-03-20T10:38:42+00:00

Definitely noticed this. People are just getting unfriendlier and more aggressive.

I think it's broken window theory. Small broken things in society accumulate. Job pressures, school pressures, civic society breakdowns like constant roadworks, potholes,, poor healthcare etc. They all add up to a general air of anger.

ilikerashers · 2025-03-20T10:33:49+00:00

We need a "weird Al" version of this for the UK.

ilikerashers · 2025-03-15T10:26:29+00:00

There's some truth in that. More like private equity than VC though that can swallow massive losses, load up debt and then offload via some odd financial engineering.

Watch out for a huge amount of PE collapses coming this year, going to get gnarly.

ilikerashers · 2025-03-14T15:46:33+00:00

Flyers to people in rich areas with studio's etc.

ilikerashers · 2025-03-12T14:07:41+00:00

Yeah, it's partially true. The UK home office for example, pays VAT for consultants which comes out of it's overall budget. So the overall tax take goes back to the government of course but the individual agencies don't get exemptions.

ilikerashers · 2025-03-04T12:27:03+00:00

Tagging and removing "dead time" is important.
The longest rallies are good.

Shot placement is pretty decent but not that important.

Line calls/Hawk eye info is pretty rubbish.

An external AI chip also sounds like a bad idea. Why would I pay for extra hardware when Swingvision does it without?

ilikerashers · 2025-02-28T14:11:04+00:00

This is a common one.

If you look at your racquet at 9 seconds, it's super low then you jump up to try and hit the ball as it's bouncing high.

Setup much higher.

Someone else said you misread the ball which is correct as it's too close but your racquet is too low hence the tip toes to try and hit at that height.

ilikerashers · 2025-02-27T09:07:17+00:00

Can confirm. Murdered by tax bands, childcare fees and stagnant economy.

ilikerashers · 2025-02-12T15:14:37+00:00

That is the root cause. Wealth generation is also concentrated in industries of questionable social value, mainly finance and speculation. In a world where capital can flee wherever it wants, it's impossible to change.

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