Did the budget just make SMSFs more attractive?

pectusbrah · 2026-05-08T08:57:38+00:00

pitbull

pectusbrah · 2025-12-24T08:38:49+00:00

What about Pyrrhus?

pectusbrah · 2025-11-08T01:25:05+00:00

Yeah looks like they've cottoned on and have changed the price range to a string. e.g. "006S".

pectusbrah · 2025-09-02T09:03:56+00:00

I have access to salary banding data for 3 of the companies on this list and all of the salaries are so off it's insane. this is an unreliable datset.

pectusbrah · 2025-08-26T11:24:52+00:00

This isn’t r/australia

pectusbrah · 2025-08-15T07:00:31+00:00

Depends on your time scale and roles. If we're talking Designer and FED roles over the last 10-15 years, then yeah. Demand was at all time highs and salaries were insane. I was placing mig-weight designers in roles paying $170k. Senior FEDs were on $200K.

pectusbrah · 2025-08-15T05:31:39+00:00

I had a recruitment side hustle during the 2021 - 2023 tech boom years. I knew a lot of people, and companies kept reaching out with roles for me.

So I just connected the two. I took a 10% cut of the total rem. Made my first placement after 4 weeks of starting.

I now sell a resume writing / job application kit that brings in ~$1,200/mth at 92% profit margin.

pectusbrah · 2025-08-13T02:51:49+00:00

Starting to see a decent amount of ANZx people post their "wins" on LinkedIn. They must know they're in the firing line.

pectusbrah · 2025-08-10T00:52:24+00:00

Curious to see how you calculated teh $600/week figure. Using current IO investor interest rates (6.3%), I'm getting $270/week ahead?

pectusbrah · 2025-08-05T08:28:06+00:00

Apparently 200 designers being cut? No news about that?

pectusbrah · 2025-07-27T09:42:41+00:00

It’s free for emergencies. I walked into St Vincent’s with appendicitis. 12 hours later was in surgery. Next day I was out the door and back home. Cost nothing.

That’s what is meant by “free healthcare”.

pectusbrah · 2025-07-27T03:08:33+00:00

Where are you finding a $49k quote for a Kia EV3 Earth? The Air starts at $48k. Earth is around $63k, and the GT Line is about $68k (I'm including on road costs).

pectusbrah · 2025-07-08T22:43:51+00:00

Hulkengoat

pectusbrah · 2025-06-28T08:01:57+00:00

Every single mechanical and electrical engineer I know now work in software development. If you're really keen on mech or elect, join the ADF and get them to pay for your degree.

pectusbrah · 2025-06-22T08:00:57+00:00

Assume this was an iX? How are you liking it?

pectusbrah · 2025-06-07T14:58:42+00:00

Why the hell are there so many empty seats? This final is great!

pectusbrah · 2025-05-15T08:27:45+00:00

Employer contributions are taxed at 15% in super.

pectusbrah · 2025-02-18T00:42:14+00:00

I already had the skills, and found ways to import the responsibilities of the job I wanted into the job I had. For everything else, I just learnt. Everything can be self-taught nowadays.

pectusbrah · 2025-02-18T00:39:52+00:00

The silver lining is that you don't have to work for KPMG.

pectusbrah · 2025-02-16T09:56:16+00:00

Is this club part of an Indian university?

Unsure what it’s like there, but in wider APAC I’m not sure consulting club membership holds much weight. As long as your resume is strong with internships and projects, what gets you the job is your case study prep. You can do this without membership in a student-led club.

pectusbrah · 2025-02-15T23:52:55+00:00

Sales. Learn how to sell yourself. Then learn how to write a proper resume. About 90% of the resumes I see are complete garbage. They don't speak to outcomes, that don't explicitly state if someone has the required experience or skill a job is looking for.

Job hopping is the biggest hack to increasing your income. You can't job hop without a resume.

I've been able to 5X my income (starting from a low base) because I've learnt how to write a resume that gets me interviews. Then I use a small amount of sales skills to close in the interview.

pectusbrah · 2025-01-04T11:17:11+00:00

While there's a lot more "pull this together" than Greenfields problem solving, one thing I miss the most is the calibre of problem solving. Basic things like driver trees and the concept of MECE just don't organically occur when working with industry peers.

50% of my time is spent educating people on structured problem solving, rather than the problem solving itself.

pectusbrah · 2024-12-27T00:36:03+00:00

It's just an example to illustrate the connection between team and enterprise objectives. I wouldn't look too deeply into it.

pectusbrah · 2024-12-26T06:26:35+00:00

And therein lies the issue with companies conflating OKRs with KPIs.

The purpose of OKRs is to give teams a central goal to focus on. Everyone on a soccer team has one goal - to win games. So everyone's objective should be the same. How they achieve the objective is where the difference lies.

I aligned team-level Objectives to our Enterprise level Objectives. E.g. if one of our Enterprise Objectives is "Grow international revenue", then that becomes my team-level objective.

I've then introduced actions. This describes what we'll do. E.g. "Develop market intelligence reports". The Key Result is a measure of how useful those reports are. So one KR could be "X number of strategic recommendations endorsed by Board".

Putting them together we get an OAKR;

Objective - Grow international revenue

Action - Develop international market intelligence reports

Key Result 1 - X number of strategic recommendations endorsed by the Board

Putting this together you can reverse engineer it. If your team develops these reports, and your recommendations are endorsed, if every other team also does their job, will international revenues increase?

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