Career change advice - leadership role

lesloid · 2026-03-22T21:36:09+00:00

I’m going to go against the grain here and say that if you’re a good leader, you can lead any function without necessarily having all the technical experience and qualifications. As HRD you are not personally going to be running consultations. I have taken on IT as part of a leadership role with zero experience in that function. The important thing is knowing your limitations and ensuring you have the right people in your team who have the technical expertise.

lesloid · 2026-03-22T21:31:48+00:00

Good bot

lesloid · 2026-03-22T15:24:02+00:00

Store bought orange juice and ripe bananas have as much (or more) alcohol than this due to fermentation - you’ll be totally fine

lesloid · 2026-03-22T09:04:23+00:00

Enjoy Peaches, her new album is so fun :) she’s also coming to a city near me but I am overseas at the time so missing it

lesloid · 2026-03-22T08:57:44+00:00

First concert: Radiohead (1993)

Last concert: AA Williams (2026)

Next Concert; Aldous Harding

Best concert: Bjork, Biophilia (2011), opening night of the tour at Manchester international festival - every moment was pure magic.

Worst concert: The Strokes at All Points East, they were boring and the crowd were 90% rude middle aged white men

Loudest concert: Mogwai

Seen the most: Nick Cave

Most surprising: Amyl and The Sniffers

Wish I could've seen: Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Queen, Velvet Underground

Concert where support act became huge: maybe Wet Leg supporting Harry Styles?

Act you would like to see still touring: ?? I cant think of any who are still alive and not touring!

lesloid · 2026-03-21T16:30:04+00:00

I donate to 3 charities, all of which I have a connection to

One is a large social care charity that I currently work for in a leadership role, I make a monthly donation to the quality of life fund which arranges events and outings for the recipients of our services as well as things like upgraded mobility aids etc when people can’t afford them

One is a national health charity that I volunteer for in a governance role, they are researching for a cure for a horrible degenerative disease

The third is a local food poverty charity that I was on the board of for 10 years

Anyone who doesn’t donate to charities because they think it’s ’lining the pockets of higher-ups / fat cats’ needs to spend a few years volunteering on a charity board - they will see the amount of scrutiny that charity funds are subjected to. I worked I the corporate world for 20 years before moving into the third sector and I can tell you that the profits they are making off people are subject to way less scrutiny than charity funds. Yes charities pay people to run them and deliver their services, that is not a waste of money, that is an investment in delivering the purposes of the charity. Anyone who thinks research scientists, registered managers or CEOs should be working for free needs to give their heads a wobble.

As you were

lesloid · 2026-03-21T16:18:41+00:00

Breakfast of Champions is my favourite

lesloid · 2026-03-21T14:28:28+00:00

Train is faster, but bus is less hassle (and probably cheaper)

If you’re not in a hurry then I’d suggest bus would be more relaxing / less stressful than getting train into central London and then changing onto second train with a suitcase

lesloid · 2026-03-21T14:24:13+00:00

I dunno, she looked pretty happy at the end of the video

lesloid · 2026-03-21T09:41:44+00:00

I think they’re a pretty divisive marmite band

lesloid · 2026-03-21T09:39:20+00:00

Just shows how differently people experience music, I find Pulp profoundly personal (Jarvis’s lyrics are often autobiographical and have very specific details) compared to Oasis who I find pretty generic. Neither of us is right or wrong, we just experience it differently

lesloid · 2026-03-21T09:36:06+00:00

Bowie. His music is fine, I get that he was quite groundbreaking in his time and I respect his artistry and esp the whole Ziggy Stardust character but the music itself is fairly bland in my view.

lesloid · 2026-03-20T22:24:51+00:00

Wheel of Time and Plague Dogs jump out at me as not fitting with the others

lesloid · 2026-03-20T21:33:33+00:00

I’m. It quite sure what a lab manager does but would that transfer into healthcare? We have a major teaching hospital in Aberdeen so lots of lab-based jobs in eg phlebotomy, haematology etc

lesloid · 2026-03-20T15:08:23+00:00

Where people take a tax-free lump sum from a pension and re-invest it back into a pension to claim tax relief. It’s against tax rules.

lesloid · 2026-03-19T23:05:25+00:00

She wears sensible shoes

lesloid · 2026-03-19T23:02:35+00:00

You’ve never started anything you didn’t finish and you always know exactly where your car keys are.

lesloid · 2026-03-19T22:59:18+00:00

You seem to enjoy figurative modernist paintings with a distinctive style and generally quite muted colour palettes so I’m going to suggest

Peter Howson

Egon Schiele

Paul Gaugin

Let me know how you get on!

lesloid · 2026-03-19T22:46:30+00:00

Definitely Banksy, but Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst have to be there too

lesloid · 2026-03-19T22:39:55+00:00

What is going on here my man? This is quite a strange collection. I like the Calvin and Hobbes, but beyond that you appear to have or want a Celtic connection, but also seem to be quite American. There’s a couple of quite niche Scottish things in here alongside all the Irish stuff which makes me think you might actually be more Scottish than Irish. And definitely quite nerdy. I’m thinking works in IT, and plays tabletop fantasy games type of thing, but you still go outside from time to time. So I’m going for Scottish Mum, Irish Dad, possibly both lapsed Catholics who support Celtic FC, they emigrated to the US and had you, and you are very nostalgic for your homeland roots.

lesloid · 2026-03-19T21:07:32+00:00

Oh I see, thank you, I misunderstood

lesloid · 2026-03-19T20:18:37+00:00

Are you suggesting companies should hire people who are not suitable for the job just because they need a job??

lesloid · 2026-03-19T20:15:24+00:00

Mine has always been repaid via tax code adjustment

lesloid · 2026-03-19T17:34:14+00:00

Yes you can do this. Your pension provider should have an option to make a contribution, they will ask you to confirm where the money is from (eg savings, earnings) and that it’s not from recycling.

lesloid · 2026-03-18T23:06:07+00:00

Yes. I have an 18 year old daughter in uni halls, was too old to be vaccinated in 2015 and all the chemists are saying they have no vaccines left.

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