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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jul 17, 2012, 18:49 |
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I live a very comfortable life, hold a job, in a relationship, have friends, but I will disappear again soon.
real life isnt about acquiring possessions and territory and passing on your genetic information
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jul 17, 2012, 18:08 |
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I find this story very believable. I worked in contract data warehousing for years in London and it was totally unregulated. Ideally you would have a good CV and references but half the time the projects I worked on were asking for such a specific permutation of skills (specific business area, specific database, specific toolset, specific OS etc) that they would take a chance on the most promising people based upon a good skill match and an interview that went well. Everyone got six figures, and the worst that could ever happen to someone for incompetence would be to not be renewed at the end of three months.
The work I did personally required being on client site so I can't relate to that bit in the article but I did meet a guy who hired someone cheap to work on his contract for him and pocket the difference. Also the frequent travel is accurate, you always go where the work is and swap one group of work mates for another at the drop of a hat. This specific chap suddenly leaving of his own accord seems like a specific quirk to him but the month to month transient nature of the work definitely made some people dysfunctional in the long term. I met more than one guy who worked abroad all the time and barely saw their wife for like 25 years, and several guys who lived double lives. They would have the family life at home but live away in hotels during the week, hitting the town big time in the evenings. They'd normally work hard but have massive nights out drinking, taking drugs and routinely cheating on their wives... |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jul 17, 2012, 14:17 |
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This guy sounds like he has serious social anxiety issues - assuming he's even for real.
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