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Hi, Anyone got update on renegotiation with IBM?
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Wet mouth noises...😖😖😖🗯🔥
Millenials < Chewbacca
Please, make this ad on LinkedIn go away.
Thoughts on having PMs manage media teams?
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No idea. The only thing harder than being an artist is not being one.
100%
I would have just gone into finance. I didn’t want to work 20 hour days my whole life even if I made bank. Balance and family was important to me… turns out I have to work all the time, I’m not rich now, and I can retire early.
Rising Star
Anything else
Any job with a pension. Maybe government
If you entered at the right time and stuck with it, gov't pensions are a dream. But if you started within the last 10y or so, they're a bit of a joke (at a state level, can't speak on fed). Contribution margins inflate quicker than raises and payouts are being squeezed - in my area, they're even firing people once they announce intention to retire to rob them of full benefits or force investigations after spotless records so they feel pressured to resign before eligibility periods. Also, beaurocrats are reliably worse to work with than most clients I have had.
I was a contractor running marketing on large professional development conferences through state contracts until being recruited to work for the state's internal comms team. 3y later and I have no power over my investments and lose out on gov't matched contributions unless I never leave. I'm mandated to contribute 13% every period, they match 3%. Estimated annual returns rest around 5%. I'd be better off with a Roth IRA and personal advisor rather than a pension that reinvests in volatile local markets. If I leave before 10y, I essentially will collect ~2-3% in growth from my contributions after losing out on vested matches.
TLDR: retirement from gov't, unless you're a decent politician, is becoming harder to see as a viable option. Pensions aren't as reliable as they once were.
I’d have been in that band, One Direction
Cop. There’s too many bad ones out there and I think I would have been a good one.
Congrats? Hey, do me a favor: in one year, come back to this post and tell us honestly how many people you have brutalized, and how many people you have helped to be brutalized by looking the other way when your cop buddies break the law.
Rising Star
Something actually artistic instead of pretend artistic.
YOOOOO
Architect
This was what I originally wanted to be and I ended up as a creative director in advertising 😢
Lottery winner! 😍🔦🏃♀️👀
Something in real estate or construction
Chippendales Dancer
Influencer management
You know you get a “do over” every day, right?
In this economy? 😮💨
Writing for TV. I had horrible self esteem when I was younger and never thought I could make it
Law
Anything tech-related, maybe science
Architect. I didn't pursue it because I had so much trouble with math [arithmatic] in grade school/junior high. That trouble ended when I was about 15. I guess my brain just had to develop to a certain level so it could deal with math. Unfortunately, the earlier trauma of my poor performance and low grades swayed my career choice.
Of course, if I had majored in architecture, I might have spent a lot of time unemployed
Rising Star
I hear you about the math. It’s the reason I didn’t go into physics.
If you asked elementary school-aged me—Olympic sprinter
Psychiatrist