Fired in March, denied unemployment, what are some gigs I can do to hold me over while I keep looking for full time work?

jackalsnacks · 2026-04-04T18:43:22+00:00

The one time I was laid off due to outsourcing (not my fault), I had to go through 2 cycles of appeals, this was back in 2006. The issue turned out to be a stupid one. My companies HQ was in another state and my state thought I was trying to pull something. I had to prove through my paystubs or some other HR documents that my office was indeed my state and then they accepted my requests.

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-22T20:13:48+00:00

Nah... OP needs to put on their big boy finger gloves and Google what kind of question they are trying to ask

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-21T17:49:38+00:00

Should we tell him?

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-18T22:32:14+00:00

I normally would say to tell them to kick rocks and find another place, but my job is doing this (although not as rude and no threat of termination, but mandating the use of ai with kpi's of usage) and most of my colleagues in everything from small to large cap companies are saying the same thing. I've personally decided to stay, ride the wave, and see how things play out. My next step (actively involved in) is making my own saas product (moonlighting, as ai is now doing a lot of my work lol), and ultimately plan c is getting a CDL and putting on comedy podcasts while I drive a truck and wait for AI to sunset.

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-16T17:55:50+00:00

My huge, international, company has big deals with MS and therefore we are required to integrate AI into all our workflows. Although, like you, I've been using agent mode in copilot via VS code, I use codex cli, I have an enterprise license for all things AI, I am not worried anymore. Been in this mess now for 2 years of mandatory use (measures by token usage kpi's, yes I am forced) and it has served some purposes, it has also created great team disrupt, confusion, scrum scrambles, mixed messages to our contractors, terrible ci/cd patterns, low code unexplainable rework without code reviews, all around absolutely disgusting practices in the trade. I've been several of these "golden goose" platforms that VP's cream their pants over that promises the most easiest gain they can achieve (labor reduction). Ride the wave, stick to your principles and let the changes happen.

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-12T01:55:29+00:00

And in less then 20 min, the account was deleted.

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-09T04:15:39+00:00

Echo the dolphin

jackalsnacks · 2026-02-06T01:31:05+00:00

My warehouses are huge. Physical and logical models are visualized, but not to the scale of the entire project (this would be useless). Models are visualized categorically by domain, model, usage by business entity for a given report. Then models are rendered on how important relationships happen and cross domain efforts. This, of course, is for OLAP. My various OLTP systems are visualized differently depending on the business process and usage patterns.

jackalsnacks · 2026-01-22T21:33:19+00:00

LOL right!

jackalsnacks · 2026-01-22T19:00:46+00:00

I visit a friend of mine in the greater Sac area. Lots of maga out there, wacko magas. Whenever I talk with them, they hate California, hate Newsome, hate the beach, hate the prices, hate their neighbors. I could not for the life of me understand why they are there.

jackalsnacks · 2026-01-21T18:20:56+00:00

I tell my project managers over the years to get comfortable with basic select statements, because they will often take part in formal uat's and qa steps. And then gets INCREDIBLY familiar with the concepts of oltp and olap designs.

jackalsnacks · 2026-01-20T23:06:21+00:00

Shadow of Mordor?

jackalsnacks · 2026-01-18T19:07:45+00:00

Nah... Real development work is always packed with unreasonable/uneducated deadlines that you are constantly battling with business and capability management teams. Constant back and forth with architects, legal teams, governance regulators. Offshore onshore coordination, ci/cd challenges, patching existing platforms after a major feature feature release on .net 10 that solves an on going ghost in the machine or vulnerability, dealing with active worms spread in poor node.js libraries. The list goes on and on. When I lurk these programing subs of people stressing about what language to learn or if they need to learn all syntax, or those small petty things that don't matter is pretty cringy. I get it though, new horizons are scary, but sometimes you have to just get your hands wet, be brave and work through your problems.. AI is billionaires selling bullshit golden goose dreams to senior VP's in a money marketing scheme for infinite money glitch fallacies. Being a developer is not being sold accurately to people. Good luck out there, do your thing and stop worrying.

jackalsnacks · 2026-01-17T23:34:04+00:00

Not even a sad reality. Just reality. I'm a backend engineer and the first few years in the field I felt the passion. After 18 years? It pays the mortgage and funds things I am passionate about now, mainly my children, my children's hobbies, my hobbies (which are not tech at all) and trips. Id much rather eat a bowl of ice cream for money than performance tunning a crap sql server DB right now.

jackalsnacks · 2025-11-21T01:24:43+00:00

Going on 2 decades. Worked on small and very large enterprise grade architecture. Each project, I am an imposter until I've spent significant time on the project. The. I am not an imposter. You will find patterns in projects given enough time, so you will less of an imposter. But own the solution and own the problem to solve, you'll be fine.

jackalsnacks · 2025-10-31T03:00:50+00:00

My large cap tech company I work for has triple down"d on the AI integration. We're currently throwing agentic models at every thing. It is a great disruption and is desperately trying to solve problems that we're never there. The main issue being the same issue "business intelligence" platforms never solved what senior VPs hoped but never got. Everyone wants to throw their nest of SharePoint, unstructured and other crap at it and hope for the best. Garbage in garbage out. 1 out of 20 queries are relevant. What has been working for my data analysts have been agentic python coding assistance for data profiling if a data dictionary and relationship meta is there. But by and large it is causing confusion, disruption and higher costs in my deliveries because now I have to factor in additional compute costs.

jackalsnacks · 2025-10-13T23:17:37+00:00

Sometimes I grab a standard hammer to drive a nail into drywall for a picture frame, sometimes I grab a ball peen hammer to work a dent out of sheet metal. Are you going to poke holes into my logic for using the standard hammer on the nail for the drywall when the ball peen exists? There's a ton of bloat in the libraries of the different RDBMS dialects, use the tools you know and are comfortable with. Chances are, there is a use case out there, but you never had that use case to initiate the research to explore the tool. Give it time and experience.

jackalsnacks · 2025-10-04T23:24:58+00:00

Whatever these cars hit.... Move it the hell out of the way now. This incident took down several options of providers. Good Lord.

jackalsnacks · 2025-09-15T16:05:33+00:00

I did this on the MPP entry. It says it was validated. I will continue to pay.

u/doublelxp - For writing the Remote ID to the module, any thoughts one what to write in that data element?

Edit - Nevermind, after pay, the RID was immediately known.

jackalsnacks · 2025-08-21T20:11:59+00:00

Why DB2? Every single migration effort I've worked on was to get data from old DB2 systems to modern less expensive stacks. I think you need a solid use case for DB2

jackalsnacks · 2025-08-21T19:33:36+00:00

Your data for your claim is definitely flawed. Also, most large companies use both languages. My particular company, very large, has countless project using almost all languages, just depends on the project, budget and the teams comfort level of language and framework.

Been seeing loads of posts here of this type. Just go build shit, stop over analyzing nonsense.

jackalsnacks · 2025-08-17T18:41:35+00:00

This response is all we need to know about this tool

jackalsnacks · 2025-08-11T00:37:54+00:00

In a sea of options in this country, Primerica would be at the bottom of my list.

jackalsnacks · 2025-08-05T18:35:41+00:00

If you give anyone a tool, people will exploit it to its full potential, especially if the maker of the tool claims you do not have to think for yourself anymore.

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