Hi all so im back with an update, so I got accepted to community college (yay) but now my heath has decline n I might be in a wheelchair soon.
These are the degrees I found on their website that I was interested in n I want ro hear from others what they went into as a wheelchair user.
-anthropology/ history
environment science
-cybersecuirty
-theater design
-international relations/ communication
Overnight tech became obsolete.
I have been unemployed longer than I have held a job.
I have sent thousands, thousands of resumes. Nothing.
I need to pivot. 28M. BSc Computer Science, MSc Algorithmic Trading. Hedge Fund quant trader exp.
Where can I go from here, need a job in 4 weeks or I move in with my grandmother.
Hello! I'm entering my first year of college next year and I'm planning to take Finance as a course for college. I've been doing some scrolling online to see jobs I can get with this degree (My main target is to become a Wealth Manager over due time) in case my main plan doesn't work out, but I've been seeing lots of comments saying Financial careers would be in danger due to AI's influx and I'd like to know if it's still a safe job market despite that.
People complains about the job market and suddenly people become coaches and criticize how they apply to 300 fucking job everyday and how it is wrong . F** you smart boys.
I've sat on the hiring side. Here's what's actually happening on the other end of your applications.
Half the postings you're applying to aren't real. Companies keep listings open to build a talent pipeline, satisfy a visa requirement, or make a team look like it's growing. Some are already filled internally and the posting is a formality HR is required to run. There's no way to know which ones from the outside, which is exactly why "just apply to more" is bad advice. You can't out-volume a listing that was never going to get filled.
Secondly, your resume isn't being rejected by a bot the way people think. ATS software doesn't have some secret keyword algorithm eating your application. What it actually does is let a recruiter filter and sort. If you're getting filtered out, it's because your first six lines don't match the first six requirements in the posting, not because you're missing some magic phrase. Fix the top third of your resume for the specific role, every time. Generic resumes lose to specific ones even when the generic candidate is more qualified.
Thirdly, referrals aren't a shortcut, they're the actual front door. At most companies, a referred candidate gets an actual human read within 48 hours. A cold application sits in a queue that may not get opened for two weeks, if it ever does. This isn't fair and I'm not going to pretend it is. But it means your time is better spent finding one person inside a company than polishing your fortieth cover letter.
Fourthly, the interview is not where you get evaluated the hardest. The screening call is. Most candidates save their best energy for the final round and coast through the 15-minute recruiter call like it's a formality. It isn't. That's usually the highest-elimination stage in the whole process, because it's the cheapest one to reject you at.
And here's the thing nobody wants to hear: Silence after an interview is an answer. Companies love to say they'll "follow up either way." Most won't if the answer is no. Stop waiting on companies that already told you by not telling you. Move on and put that energy toward the next lead.
If you take one thing from this: Stop measuring your search by how many applications you sent. Measure it by how many real conversations you started with actual humans. Ten warm conversations will outperform two hundred cold applications every time.
Hi wise people!
So I am a recently turned 30 year old female living in the UK 🇬🇧 I don't know how I got here, I'm still trying to come to terms that I turned 24 which felt like yesterday!
I'm not terribly behind in life. I have a decent job, not that it pays loads but it's very fulfilling. Working as an SEN teaching assistant. I am on the look out for the next thing though. I have no qualifications other than my GCSE's (and I guess 6 years now as working as an SEN assistant).
I do want to get qualified and enhance my education and life skills even further than I currently have them but not sure how to go about it.
I am very interested in Health and Social Care and applied Health care routes such as Speech and language therapy, rehabilitation, ect ect but had no experience in this field just know I'm interested in helping others. I signed up to volunteer with the NHS to give me some experience.
I've been toying and froing if I want to commit to 3 years at uni now without the typical "uni" experience that other youngsters get l and I just feel completely lost.
I just wanted to know if anything had any advice for me. As I don't feel totally happy. There are some things going great in life and others where I just totally behind in.
Please be kind in the comments and offer any real advice you might have. Thanks ☺️
Students remain unplaced in FMS also??
I've been in my current position for about two and a half years now and lately I just feel like I'm going through the motions. The work is fine, the pay is decent, and my manager isn't terrible, but I don't feel like I'm growing anymore. I stopped learning new things months ago and I dread Sunday evenings knowing the week ahead will look exactly like the one before it.
The tricky part is that the job market feels unpredictable right now and I'm nervous about leaving something stable for something unknown. At the same time I keep wondering if staying too long in a comfortable but stagnant role is going to hurt me in the long run, both for my resume and my own motivation.
Has anyone been in this situation before? Did you wait it out and things improved, or did you make a move and feel like it was the right call? I'm also curious whether people think it's worth having an honest conversation with your manager about wanting more responsibility before deciding to leave, or if that usually backfires.
Would love to hear from people who have navigated something like this. I feel like I need some perspective from people who have actually been through it.
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Background
I've been employed as a junior legal counsel since 2023 and hold a bachelor's and master's degree in law, plus two certifications (CIPP/E and CIPM) in data protection and governance.
Location: EU member state
Im sorry for any strange sentences and spelling mistakes, English is not my first language.
The Situation
I've been the only junior counsel in our small legal department (alongside one peer and our Chief Legal Officer) for most of my tenure. During this time, we've handled significant milestones. A full company restructuring from 1 to 14 entities, multiple market entries and exits, and several brand launches. This required negotiating and duplicating supplier agreements across all new entities, a substantial workload increase.
Our industry is heavily regulated, and our legal department has absorbed compliance responsibilities beyond our scope. Mostly because the skills are not there in the compliance department.
I applied to become the Data Protection Officer (something that our regulator requires us to have. Basically, there are various work functions that needs to be approved by the regulator. I had to, among other things, provide my birth certificate to the regulator) in June 2025 and obtained my CIPP/E and CIPM certifications last autumn autumn. While not formally titled as DPO, I performed the role and drove substantial progress on GDPR and data protection compliance ever since December 2023. I was finally registered as DPO with the regulator and national data protection authority in May this year, the process took 11 months for the regulator to approve me. This is apparently a standard time frame for them to approve new roles.
I was recently informed of a raise and received an offer this week, 3,000 EUR more than my current salary. This is significantly less than I anticipated (I expected around 10,000 EUR). Additionally, my title changed to "Legal Counsel", there's no official DPO designation despite holding both the role and the necessary certifications.
This feels undervalued, especially considering colleagues without law degrees or university education (MLRO, compliance staff) earn the same salary as I will post-raise. We had a big restructuring last April where about 50 people had to leave on that day. This crested some chaos within the business and we have not really filled those seats yet.
Considering my job, I know the financials of our business and I have gone through the financial statement. I also know that we had a big dividend payout back in June this years because I created the necessary documents for it.
The issue:
In a few months, I'll reach my four-year anniversary, which entitles me to one month's salary as a bonus. My notice period extends to two months after that milestone, which could deter prospective employers
I'm also eligible for an OKR bonus (roughly one month's salary) in August
Other factors:
My manager recently left and won't return until September, all communication will be via slack or email. He will soon be going to a different time zone so our working hours will never click.
I received a 5,000 EUR raise last year
Salary benchmarks suggest the current offer is mid-range for "Legal Counsel" alone, but doesn't account for my DPO responsibilities. It also doesn't account that I literally know everything about the business. I can basically answer any question anyone might have without me needing to look anything up.
My manager mentioned he advocated for our department's raises, so I'm hesitant to appear ungrateful
Three Options I'm Considering
Accept the offer, collect both bonuses (August and four-year), then leave
Resign without a job lined up to avoid the two-month notice period
Negotiate directly with my manager (or escalate to the CEO/owner) for a more appropriate raise
I'm concerned about appearing opportunistic if I highlight pay disparities with colleagues.
Anyone got any ideas?
Hello, i am 20 years old and in college for a psychology degree, on track to graduate next year. I have been running a small photography business for the past couple years since high school, and i would say im pretty good at it. i genuinely hate the idea of working in an office job or something where i dont get to be creative but realistically i haven't found anything else that would be stable and allow for the lifestyle i want later in life (ideally wanting to start a family with my bf in the next couple years and possibly stay home/wfh with our future babies). wanting to hear if anyone else with similar passions to me (photography, art, reading, design etc) has been able to make a successful career out of it where they are not extremely burn out. i'm trying to be realistic though and i feel like the older i get im going to have to be unhappy with some part of my career and stop looking for an unrealistic "perfect career" any advice from someone older would be helpful, thanks!
I am 16 and struggling to decide what to do with my future. Everything is still undecided.
I took science and maths because I love computer science, engineering, and tech. But a few days ago my cousin came to visit and he's working at NVIDIA. He was just sitting in the corner for hours on his laptop, basically doing nothing but typing code. That completely changed how I see CS engineering.
I used to imagine myself doing big things like what CEOs do, but now this picture of just sitting and typing all day is stuck in my head and I can't digest it.
The main problem is I don't feel seriously interested in anything. People always say "do what you love," but what if I don't even know what I love?? I also keep reading posts from people saying they wasted their life studying something that gives them nothing in return. They're stuck and regret it — some in their 20s, some in their 30s. I really don't want that to happen to me.
Can you guys give me some advice?
Guys Im lately having a hard time finding a job. I just have 15 months experience as a data analyst and 6 months as ESG analyst. One job I was hit by layoffs and other was contractual. I’m really stuck and can’t think of any possible hope. How do I find one?
I graduated in 2023 and was placed in a company, where I worked as a Data Analyst for nine months before being laid off.
After five months of job hunting, I secured a one-year apprenticeship at Cisco as a Network Engineer. I worked very hard, enjoyed the work, and gave my best in the hope of being converted to a full-time employee. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints, they were unable to convert any of us.
Since then, I have been searching for a new job, and it has now been almost eight months without success.
During these eight months, I have attended almost six interviews. Out of those six, I reached the final round in four interviews and successfully cleared them. However, even after clearing the interviews, the companies have not released the offers and have instead informed me that my candidature is on hold.
I am very worried because I have to look after my family. I feel stuck and depressed, and I am trying my best to stay positive while continuing my job search.
Bonjour !
J'ai 23 ans et j'obtiendrai ma licence (B.Sc.) au printemps prochain. Actuellement, je cumule trois emplois à temps partiel et, comme je vis encore chez mes parents, j'investis la quasi-totalité de mes revenus. De ce fait, j'ai accumulé un patrimoine net d'environ 150 000 $ : 60 000 $ dans mon CELI, 15 000 $ dans mon CELIAPP, 15 000 $ dans une fiducie à mon nom, 5 000 $ cash comme fond d'urgence et le reste dans un compte de placement non enregistré.
J'ai l'impression d'être à un tournant de ma vie. J'aime vraiment mon domaine d'études scientifiques, mais il est mal rémunéré et je ne me vois pas y faire carrière à long terme, à moins d'ouvrir ma propre clinique ou mon propre cabinet privé. D'un autre côté, j'ai les notes pour entrer en médecine ou en médecine dentaire, mais c'est un cursus tellement long. En même temps, le monde des affaires m'intéresse beaucoup. J'y ai déjà un pied grâce à mon poste de Responsable des ventes et de l'expérience client, et je me demande si un MBA et une transition vers le monde des affaires ne seraient pas plus judicieux (j'ai entendu dire que c'est un milieu difficile…).
Je suis une personne très ambitieuse et déterminée, et l'un de mes principaux objectifs est d'atteindre l'indépendance financière dans ma fin quarantaine.
Vos conseils et avis seraient les bienvenus🙌🏼
Update: I didn't get fired
My manager is very harsh in her feedback (she's said this about herself to me).
When performance is down, she certainly lets us know...
One of the things she said in her most recent 1:1 with me was that the AEs were outpeforming the BDRs.
I thought it was worth noting that the majority of the AE meetings booked were warm inbound / not cold outbound like the BDRs.
So after tracking the data of meetings booked by source, I corrected her in a chat w me and the other BDR, basically trying to (in a non-inflammatory way) correct her.
Yes, was I also mad? Definitely.
I think there isn't wrong with firing someone for performance reasons, but you don't have to personally attack them and bring them down along the way...
Now I have a 1:1 with the CEO of the small startup on my calendar for the afternoon today.
Should I be worried?
I think it's also worth noting she recorded our last 1:1 where the AE v. BDR meetings booked conversation occurred (she never records them), but neither of us said anything that would raise flags for being inflammatory... except she was harsh as usual...
I just graduated this month and I have been thinking about it a lot lately and I am curious what people here think. I mean a realistic path where someone can have financial stability, a good quality of life and earn well. My goals in life are basically to have financial freedom, a stable career, the ability to travel good work life balance if possible and earning a good income significantly more than the avg salary.
Will that help me generate wealth in the long run?
I would love to hear perspective from people in diff sectors tech. Please do share your insights according to the current market.
I'm a 26 male who has a mechanic background from going to trade school in diesel and automotive for a 2 year program to working as a mechanic in a body shop. Been in the trade professionally of 5 years and considering a switch in another industry. I keep debating on leaning towards fleet diesel repair that I was offered a job for. I have worrisome to keep stacking debt when buying tools in the mechanic side of it byt can be a great investment. Has anyone switched from mechanics to HVAC work? Have you faced slow seasons from times when it was slow when hours were cut short in HVAC? Here's the Offers below... 1.) I got a offer in Residential Retro Fitting HVAC Install work as a apprentice at starting $19 per hour. With weekly pay and 2 week vacation after a year. I believe it's very long hours at a 5 day work week with possible 10 hoir days and deal with customers face to face. They offer on job training and in house EPA 608 Certification. They have told me they don't do commercial work but out of town to do Residential repairs and retro fit work in customer homes. OR 2.) I got a offer at a fleet diesel repair shop that maintains their own fleet. Starting pay as a trainee is at 24 per hour when is definitely nice and will go up. They offer a 4 day work week to only work from Sunday to Wednesday 10 hour days plus overtime. They pay for my CDL and get my inspection license that's paid for. It's a new shop being built with clean floors and only 20 minutes from home. Give out paid holidays and get 4 additional days off after one year to atleast 1 to 2 weeks off then get 2.5 weeks off after the second year.
My company, like many others, is investing heavily in AI, so I built a custom AI tool for my office. It ended up getting a lot of positive attention, and leadership decided they wanted to scale it across the entire company.
The only reason the project got visibility was because I shared it with our corporate AI team. At first, I was included in discussions about how to expand it, but eventually they just took the idea and ran with it. Since then, I've received essentially no credit, but honestly, that's not even what bothers me the most. What frustrates me is that I've been completely left out of the team building the company-wide version. I don't need recognition I just want the opportunity to contribute to something I created and potential to take on more responsibility.
I recently brought this up with the head of the AI team and told him I'd really like to be involved. His response was something along the lines of, "We could use your feedback on what you'd like to see in the field," as if I hadn't built the original tool in the first place.
I've been with this company for six years, and this project was the only thing I've done that I am proud of...the rest of my job is basically grunt work that I don't enjoy and doesn't fill my time. This felt like my best opportunity to take on a larger role and grow my career, and now it feels like that opportunity has disappeared.
I'm honestly at the point where I've considered quitting over it.
Has anyone else been in a situation like this? If so, how did you handle it?
So I got an offer from another company for $15k more. Told my boss I was leaving and suddenly they found budget to match it and even promote me. Now I don't know what to do. Part of me feels like if they could afford to pay me morethis whole time, why didn't they? And if I stay, am I just a marked man? I found the new role online, it seemed legit, but now I'm torn.
Anyone taken the counteroffer and regretted it? Or is it actually a win?