The job market sucks…

[Anonymous]

+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

There's tons of opportunities just not in DC. Grifters are having it rough and their biggest strength is whining so it sucks as background noise but at least they are too lazy to riot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

There's tons of opportunities just not in DC. Grifters are having it rough and their biggest strength is whining so it sucks as background noise but at least they are too lazy to riot.

Reporting from outside DC area and no, this is not true. Not tons. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

The lazy public buying into technology 100 percent screwed themselves.

I was skeptical and critical of the whole mess in the 90s at the very beginning. The vulnerabilities of the systems and devaluation of the individual was obvious from the start. In many ways it made work more time consuming, annoying and nitpicky. Less lucrative in many ways as well. Every innovation and paradym change I made fun of and if anybody who worked for me complained I would say "told you.. technology but you didn't listen" I take great pride in being 100 percent correct in my instincts. Everybody has been disempowered and physically weaker.

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Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

I thought they were firing the 80000 armed IRS agents Biden hired to harass citizens.

Funny…looks like they just moved them into ICE to also harass citizens.

Of course, the IRS agents would have paid for themselves like 5X over.

Harassing and ejecting non citizen invaders will help save money for social security and Medicare.

Except many are actual citizens getting detained.

Considering none of the immigrants are eligible for Medicare or social security…not sure how it will save money for those specific programs.

You don’t really understand how the economy or economics work…which is typical.

Of course, somehow you will claim there is no more inflation when it’s everywhere.

[Anonymous]

There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

Doesn't the 2026 appropriations cut the FBI and ATF budgets pretty badly (especially ATF)?

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Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

If only everyone could be a ML engineer in their, what, 20s?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

There's tons of opportunities just not in DC. Grifters are having it rough and their biggest strength is whining so it sucks as background noise but at least they are too lazy to riot.

Go back to your napping pod.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

Yeah getting hit up on linkedin bots to join a startup for a 20% reduction in pay isn't exactly poaching. Actually, if you think of yourself as poachable you're already doing the economy wrong, as if you're owned by somebody.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

Yeah getting hit up on linkedin bots to join a startup for a 20% reduction in pay isn't exactly poaching. Actually, if you think of yourself as poachable you're already doing the economy wrong, as if you're owned by somebody.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

Yeah getting hit up on linkedin bots to join a startup for a 20% reduction in pay isn't exactly poaching. Actually, if you think of yourself as poachable you're already doing the economy wrong, as if you're owned by somebody.

I joined a start up with a 50 percent pay cut. I got a lot of RSUs and left after two years and had a lot of great experience. In end not public yet But my stock is worth the difference. would have stayed longer but need more base. But if Single I would have stayed. It was cool, hip, learning like crazy and would have stayed four years to fully vest.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

Yeah getting hit up on linkedin bots to join a startup for a 20% reduction in pay isn't exactly poaching. Actually, if you think of yourself as poachable you're already doing the economy wrong, as if you're owned by somebody.

Well..actually getting hit up by Meta for a crazy amount of $$$s and decided to go through the process. Already at a high profile AI company.

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Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

Yeah getting hit up on linkedin bots to join a startup for a 20% reduction in pay isn't exactly poaching. Actually, if you think of yourself as poachable you're already doing the economy wrong, as if you're owned by somebody.

I joined a start up with a 50 percent pay cut. I got a lot of RSUs and left after two years and had a lot of great experience. In end not public yet But my stock is worth the difference. would have stayed longer but need more base. But if Single I would have stayed. It was cool, hip, learning like crazy and would have stayed four years to fully vest.

If that's true I'm really happy for you. Your experience is rare unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:There is always a bull market somewhere. My kid is an ML engineer and constantly trying to get poached.

Yeah getting hit up on linkedin bots to join a startup for a 20% reduction in pay isn't exactly poaching. Actually, if you think of yourself as poachable you're already doing the economy wrong, as if you're owned by somebody.

Well..actually getting hit up by Meta for a crazy amount of $$$s and decided to go through the process. Already at a high profile AI company.

That's not a bull market, your kid is just exceptional.