swiffswaffplop

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[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 63 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I’ve worked in the SaaS world for nearly a decade. I’ve never had an issue getting a new job every couple of years. The best path for promotions and salary increases in this world. I was unfortunately part of a layoff back in the summer, and I have never had such a hard time finding work in my life.

Every time I go to apply to a job that’s fairly new, I can see there are already a couple thousand applicants. Suddenly my decade of experience isn’t enough to land an interview, much less a job.

It. Sucks.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 70 points 9 months ago

You either die a Frodo, or live long enough to become a Gollum.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Oh it’s the same here in the US. I had to spend weeks fighting with insurance that I actually was diabetic and needed it. It’s a “fashionable” drug so it was hard for the people who actually need it to get it.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As someone who is diabetic, and took Ozempic, yea I lost weight. However I was visit-the-hospital sick for 5 weeks. Yes my A1C went down, but at the cost of not being able to eat, drink, or sleep for weeks on end. I will never ever take that medicine again.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting school mascot

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Let’s see those train pics, my dude! Let that conductor-freak flag fly here.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

THEY’RE TAUNTING AN APPLE BUYOUT

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Jeff Buckley Ella Fitzgerald Edith Piaf

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Also a killer songwriter. His side project, Bad Books has a song called “Pyotr”, and it’s an incredible song.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I got into to Brandi Carlile because I kept hearing her songs and not knowing it was her. Each time I thought “damn, this is really good”, looking up the song and each time it was Brandi Carlile. That happened 3 times and I finally decided it was time to start listening to albums.

[–] swiffswaffplop@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Not me personally, but my grandpa was transferred out of Pearl Harbor a week before the attack. I often think about how some random person’s decision that many years ago created my entire family line.

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