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I've been wondering if being a data analyst is still a career in 2026..you can just use AI to clean your data and build all of your reports right? Why would there be a need for a DA to do that stuff manually?

I watched this video the other day where the guy talks about how entry level roles in DA and Data Engineering are down 14% .. which is more then any other role in tech.

As for myself, I've been in IT wanting to change domains having some experience building a report with python and excel. I'm being told its pointless at this point in time and I should instead focus on agentic AI and vibe coding.

In search of a cool supportive Discord community for producers and lovers of experimental, idm and ambient music to share tracks, plugins, and sound design tips as well as get feedback on music.

Thank you!

I'm pretty confident that I'm about intermediate level with Python and SQL.

I don't want to work in IT anymore working in offices at MSPs and working on tickets.

Without having any experience with Snowflake or Kafka, is there any way I can get ahead into entry level work in this area? I really enjoy working with SQL coming up with data pipelines.

I know its a rough industry right now, but I'm only interested in data engineer work now with wfh flexibility. Otherwise im gonna work for my friend as a carpenter, and work on houses because I don't want to play the IT help desk game just to get a paycheck, especially to fight over so many people just for a decent job.

I was thinking about this today about things like the overall decline of marriages and the rising numbers of single men and women. Since the pandemic it's been very difficult because young adults have a lot less money and there aren't a lot of third spaces anymore where people meet and greet and become friends.

At least in my town I know that nobody wants to build a third party space that young people will have fun hanging out at because they can make more money with a luxury bar that has oldies covers that appeal to old money folk and baby boomers.

Then there's the issue of online dating apps which are private Enterprises that use a predatory algorithm to get people hooked on being a customer of the app and never finding a match, and then in addition to paywalling the ability to communicate with people like send messages.

Overall some of the factors affecting dating and relationships and also marriage is one the cost of living of everything and to everybody's addiction to the internet and social media.

Then there's also things like White Collar jobs in corporate environments making people work so much and even requiring people to work over weekends and during after hours limiting time that they can spend with families or their significant others. I feel like a 4-day work week might help remedy this, but I don't know.

This is the great question I'm trying to figure out in regards to the current cost of living crisis.

I think a business pays an employee what they can afford to pay and what the demand is for the job. They have no control over what housing costs and what groceries cost, that's all a supply issue and the current government making it worse with Protectionism policies while also not supporting healthy Market growth enough to build enough houses so that rent and mortgages come down.

Thoughts?

Im coming from the IT / CS industry and the job market is absolutely pathetic.

Im thinking about jumping into CNC and becoming a CNC Programmer. Do I have to start as a machine operator sitting and doing the boring stuff?

Is this a viable career change?

This is a term I made up, but let me explain the scenario to you and see if this resonates.

Say you're a new hire at a company, you finished all the HR stuff, I9 and all that. You are now an active employee, you go to the office for your start day. You start "working", and then you find out none of the tools are setup for you to start doing your job, or your manager and other associated colleagues are so busy that they can't do any formal training with you.

Days and weeks go by, and then it starts to feel like management has forgotten about you - either your direct reporting manager takes a vacation, is so busy that they can't work with you, or you never get the tools you needed such as requests to certain web accounts for the software you're supposed to be using. In addition to that, management and associated people(s) are so busy that they can't even sit down and train you on the tools that you're supposed to be using to do your job.

So what do you do? You either a) jump in and start doing things yourself, or b) You sit on your ass at your desk. If A, you get reprimanded for overstepping or going outside what you're given permission to do. If B you get reprimanded for not doing any work, or learning too slowly.

Then weeks and sometimes months go by, and maybe you FINALLY start to get some of the training you need on the tools, and then something happens and you're hit with the news - you're fired. The reason you're being fired is due to "poor performance" or "you're not a good fit for the position" something along the lines of "not adapting quickly enough".

It turns out that the expecation was either that you were supposed to learn everything on your own in a setting you know nothing about, and work with clients you've never met before OR you were supposed to be such a good self starter that you by some miracle chatted up enough people to have them help them with their job to stay busy.

So this to me is called Onboarding Purgatory - a situation of pre-employment that has the illusion of full employment, but you're never fully onboarded with the company or ever complete any formal training for your role leading you to try to keep your job against impossible odds.

Thoughts?

Just to provide context I got hired to be an AI Administrator and Platform Engineer, and I've been struggling a bit as it is my first admin role. It's also the first role of its kind in the company.

So for starters, I didn't have any of the access I needed on my start day, and an MSP owns our tenant. My first task given to me was to figure out all the permissions I need, so I got that information and had my manager submit a ticket for me. I had to wait an entire week for this to be done.

Then after that the next assignment for me was to figure out how we give everybody in the organization the ability to use agents without giving them a copilot license and I came back with that answer, and I wasn't able to bring it up until I had a meeting to present all of the information. I then had to put in a request to the next supervisor to prove the plan and then come to find out we're not even ready to roll with the plan for another month because my manager had to present this idea to the executive leadership team.

Then everyone started to turn into an asshole, and I really felt the hostility.

I then had a meeting with my direct manager who then told me I wasn't moving things fast enough and said I was performing poorly. He also made a statement about how I'm not supposed to listen to music at work, which I've done while I was spending time reading stuff.

Then the head of our department decides to schedule a call with me to do a performance review for my first 30 days the guy was like I want you to give yourself a one to five on how you think you are on technical expertise and how you're connecting with your coworkers.

I gave myself a 4 out of five.

He then proceeds to tell me that he would give me a two out of five on technical expertise because he said I've been slow to catch up m even though I had to explain to my manager what but pay as you go policy is and the difference between an on-premises and a cloud group.

He then proceeded to give me a two out of five with how I've been building relationships and said that i have trouble connecting with people, l and said that they've observed me just getting my breakfast and then sitting behind my cubicle for the day. He then also said one of the reasons I'm performing poorly is because I've needed a lot of guidance on how to do my job.

Then come today the CIO schedules a meeting with me and then tells me that I'm being let go because of culture mismatch and skill set.

He then proceeded to say things like how I would have lunch at 9:00 a.m. which is not true, I would come to work with the bagel sandwich need it at my desk or I would sometimes bring a microwavable breakfast wrap and use the kitchen to heat it up.

I asked him what the cultural mismatch was and he said I'm just going to leave it at that implying that he didn't want to actually go into detail and say something hurtful about me being neurodivergent.

I don't know what I could have done better I guess coming to work with a bagel and coffee and eating at my desk is unprofessional for this environment. He said something about me being late but when I asked about the working hours it was pretty ambiguous and they made it sound like it was okay for me to come in a little bit later as long as I worked a full 8 hours. I normally came in around 8:30 and worked until 5:00, and nobody told me it wasn't okay then I spoke to the other colleagues who said they do similar schedules.

The Enterprise management team isn't even in this office the majority of the time they either work remotely or they work in other locations they come to the office once a month.

I feel like the majority of the time this job didn't have clear objectives or tasks that were assigned and they just kind of threw me in there with no formal training and expected me to pick up everything myself. The majority of the time I was waiting for my manager to give me assignments to do while he was constantly in meetings all day.

To be honest I also don't know what the fuck a company expects to do with the position like this when most of these agents that this guy built were generic chatbot that I could have built within 15 minutes and he bragged about it like it was some important project. We didn't even get to the point of putting out agents the entire organization but that being said I don't even know why they think it would be enough work to have one person dedicating time to it when there's probably only a small portion of the company that actually cares about using AI agents.

This is the second job I've had this year that doesn't work out so I don't really know what to do going forward.

Hey reddit.

So I got hired to be an AI Administrator and Platform Engineer, and I've been struggling a bit as it is my first admin role. It's also the first role of its kind in the company.

So for starters, I didn't have any of the access I needed on my start day, and an MSP owns our tenant. My first task given to me was to figure out all the permissions I need, so I got that information and had my manager submit a ticket for me. I had to wait an entire week for this to be done.

Then after that the next assignment for me was to figure out how we give everybody in the organization the ability to use agents without giving them a copilot license and I came back with that answer. However since my manager is mostly in meetings for the entire day I had limited time I was able to talk with him. Eventually I was able to present to him the need for us to have a pay as you go billing policy with a public group for everyone that's going to be using Copilot. I then had to ask the next manager up for approval on it and he didn't reply to my email and give approval until a week later.

I then had a meeting with my direct manager who then told me I wasn't moving things fast enough and said I was performing poorly.

Then yesterday the head of our department decides to schedule a call with me to do a performance review for my first 30 days the guy was like I want you to give yourself a one to five on how you think you are on technical expertise and how you're connecting with your coworkers.

I gave myself a 4 out of five.

He then proceeds to tell me that he would give me a two out of five on technical expertise because he said I've been slow to catch up and demonstrate that I know things even though I had to explain to my manager what but pay as you go policy is and the difference between an on-premises and a cloud group.

He then proceeded to give me a two out of five with how I've been building relationships and said that I'm too antisocial and said that they've observed me just getting my breakfast and then sitting behind my cubicle for the day. He then also said one of the reasons I'm performing poorly is because I've needed a lot of guidance on how to do my job.

So that being said it looks like I'm already on the chopping block because I haven't been taking complete ownership of the project and moving things forward fast enough which is putting all the co-pilot agents out to the entire organization.

So I finally put together a plan to do that next week now that I almost have everything I need to give everybody in the company ability to use agents. And I know that there's a right way to do this but they seem to care more about getting the AI agents out to everybody rather than how it might affect their compliance score once they're out but I don't think that's really my problem.

And I just don't really know what to do it takes a long time to request stuff I need since an MSP owns our tenant and I had to take some time to research the right way to do this stuff with the people I report to being in meetings for most the day and me only being able to have 10 minute conversations with them.

Need some advice here because I'm starting to mentally suffer and I can't even enjoy my weekend right now. I feel like I've been trying really hard and I don't know why I can't meet their standards. This is also my first time in an admin role like this and I understand for most of the time there's no formal training or guidance on anything like this.

It might be already time for me to move on but I was really looking forward to this being my first admin role but if I have to go back to doing technical support related stuff just for peace of mind maybe that's the move.

I recently got hired as an AI platform engineer at my company and we plan to roll out hundreds of Agents throughout the company being requested by various people including executive leadership.

I am the first person of its kind to be doing this at my company and we are still learning. Microsoft makes it really complicated with their pricing tiers and Licensing and I just figured out yesterday that I need another license to be able to manage Agents from agent 365.

My boss is no expert on this either and he's already built a ton of Agents with agent Builder that he wants to deploy. Feel like the right move here would be to convince him to move them all into Copilot Studio so that they can be managed better. Our first one is supposed to be an agent to answer general HR questions and is using knowledge sourced from a public SharePoint folder, but it was made in Agent Builder not CSP..

To make this more complicated an MSP manages our security and all the admin accounts are Cloud accounts which can't have licenses on them or be assigned on-prem groups. And The Catch 22 here is that you can't touch any of the controls in agent builder in 365 without a copilot license..

You also need an E7 to use Agent 365 *sigh*

Should we be managing all our Agents from Copilot Studio exclusively? Or should I have full admin rights to CSP, Power Platform and M365?

Im genuinely worried about being priced out of this state. NYC just did a rent freeze for the city, and our rents are increasing in part due to the flock of NYCers moving here and increasing the demand..

The state is not going to build new housing quickly enough for the prices to come down. Even though I make around 57k a year, most livable apartments are still not very affordable without giving up 3/4 of a paycheck, snd the yearly rent increases are making it impossible to save for a house on that income.

Hey guys,

Lately I've been working on mixing psychill for some DJ mixes. The progressive type of psychill ranging from arpund 120 - 130 bpm like the Altar Records sound.

I have the Altar Records top prog-psy compilations, but I've mixed with those compilations a lot already. Where can I find more psychill in this style? Labels other then Altar or Ultimae?

I'm talking about the kind that is still psytrancey, has the rolling basslines, but isnt fast enough to be played on a main psytrance stage.

I really don't like it it's especially annoying when exploring the alien ruins area of the game because many of the mission objectives require you swimming to where you can't swim using just the tadpole but then the area itself is full of aggressive creatures or makes you travel really far from your tadpole giving you a little time to get oxygen before you have to go back up.

I really don't like how the game forces the maximum depth reached with the tadpole, I think you should either be removed from the game or fixed so that it is less forgiving especially since it seems like the alien ruins area doesn't treat the ocean floor like the typical ocean floor.

They don't seem to respawn, if you've built your base in an area of the map where you've constantly farmed water slugs, they get harder to find.

Is there no way to raise your own water slugs yet? They should at least respawn after a time so I don't have to hunt every inch of the map for them. I think this is an issue that needs to be fixed, especially since they're essential for surviving.

I'm finding that if you weren't making at least 70k a year living on your own is basically impossible and then again it's not even worth it if you're trying to save up for a house and other things since the average price for a one bedroom is around $1400 to $1700 a month.

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This state is going to see its millennials disappear completely in the next few years, and with it an entire demographic of people that support local businesses like restaurants and bars.

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My conclusion is that there are 3 ways to make it here and save up for a house.

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1. You are reluctant to live rent free somehow and stay with family. This becomes less common as you get older and not everybody has that as an option. I don't.

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2. You have a lot of money, or make enough to live on your own and save for a house and front emergency bills like car maintenance, medical procedures, pets etc

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3. You know someone like a friend, family member, or romantic partner to help you either by splitting costs or another way.

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It's possible things could turn around after the election but I still somehow doubt it.

Looking for resources to learn about sound design or dark ambient music like Lustmord or any of the Cryochamber releases. The really spooky / eerie kind, not lofi with pianos and stuff.

I'm interviewing for an AI Administrator job where I'll be managing Copilot agents in Copilot Studio and Power Automate.

I started practicing some things like agent creation on my own with a trial account.

I have to say I love it so far. If I don't get this job, I'd really like to try to get another where I'll be working out Power Platform or building Power Apps.

Way more fun then doing support desk or basic system admin crap like managing licenses and permissions in Entra ID, and it feels like a gateway into developer related roles.

I wanted to know if anyone here is a platform engineer, and if there's anything I can do to get more jobs such as this?

I'm interviewing for an AI Administrator job where I'll be managing Copilot agents in Copilot Studio and Power Automate.

I started practicing some things like agent creation on my own with a trial account.

I have to say I love it so far. If I don't get this job, I'd really like to try to get another where I'll be working out Power Platform or building Power Apps.

Way more fun then doing support desk or basic system admin crap like managing licenses and permissions in Entra ID.

I wanted to know if anyone here is a platform engineer, and if there's anything I can do to get more jobs such as this?

The staffing agency I worked with today told me about an opening for a system engineer job that I've seen a posting for on LinkedIn for almost 2 months now. Unfortunately I applied for this position so the staffing agency isn't able to represent me for it.

Then the person at the staffing agency reveals to me that they actually haven't hired a single person internally and that they've decided to go through staffing agency to fill the position because their human resources department can't handle the volume of applications. This is kind of a catch-22 because I have no way of knowing what their internal operations are like yet applying to the position through Linkedin as I saw it actually worked against me in this case because not only is there internal hiring process broken but I now can't be represented by a staffing agency for that same position.

So I'm now out of an opportunity due to something that's completely out of my control.

This isn't the first time I've seen this happen either I've seen other local jobs that have been posted online for quite a while and they're in a similar situation where they just stopped accepting applications and decided to go through a staffing agency to get the position filled.

I've also had some bad experiences with the interviews with human resources that may have potentially sabotaged my opportunity and one was this lady saying "We don't want someone who will leave after a year" - so basically revealing to me that their pay isn't competitive enough to keep people interested??? That people are either overworked or the work doesn't keep people who want to move up in their career???? Way to not think before you speak!

Also on another note I've been having an unemployment issue due to my last employer incorrectly reporting that I was still employed full time after being laid off, and their Human Resources is nearly unreachable by phone or email to get them to resolve this issue.

In regards to Human Resources being overburdened with applications I don't know if I should take that as a red flag or not that either A) Their HR people don't understand how to screen for the right candidate or B) their internal hiring process sucks, or C) they cant get the right people interested because its a 5 days on site / pay is too low but asking for senior level experience.

Is hiring just in general broken due to HR!?!?! That's crazy

I was recently let go from a job as a contractor through a staffing agency. Since the seperation resulted in my contracted being ended with the client the staffing agency was working with, I was told that I could file under "lack of work" since my contract was ended.

Weeks later, I discover my UI claim is held up due to Issue on File. After reaching out and speaking with the DOL, I was told that they reached out to my most recent employer, and they replied with stating that I was still employed with them full-time. Obviously, this is not correct because my last workday was 4/17.

I've been unable to reach HR directly, I finally got hold of Payroll dept, and the person I spoke with stated that they did not receive any correspondance from the DOL. The information I'm being told is contradictory to what was told to me directly by the DOL representative.

At this time, I do not know what to do because it feels like the previous employer is not cooperating and I'm now stuck in a loop because both sides are contradicting the given information about my situation.

I figured that the best solution would be to request a letter of proof of seperation from HR to then forward to the DoL adjucations dept with the last date of employment. However, HR has either been unreachable, or seem to be giving me the run around. To further complicate things, the automated system provided a number for employment verification that is incorrect - I called the number and it turns out to be a contact for an Auto Parts Dealer.

I need some advice on how to proceed here since the employer does not seem to be cooperating or has any reliable channels of communication.

The worse possible scenario seems to be that the adjucations dept, will have to conduct an investigation that will take 4 to 6 weeks in which that time I will not be receiving any benefits.