I agree, I just got a job heading up some enterprise arm Ai stuff.
my commute is about an hour each way by helicopter, assuming the pilot and autopilot cooperate.
at least I can do work stuff each way
Americans in general are less mobile than they were even 30 years ago. More folks prefer staying in place and that is a good thing: https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-moving-less-social-demographic-changes-2022-8?amp
Why would people put their families through major changes when their new boss might collude with our corrupt government to make them work at home and force them all to take toxic experimental medications at any time?
I have recently received a couple of emails from red-dot Indians looking for AFS/CL3 experience. Here’s what they sent:
Hello,
Hope you are doing good. This is Akash Jangwal from Stellar Consulting.
We have an excellent long-term contractual opportunity from UST, please let me know if you are interested with the below requirement and share the updated resume.
AFS AND CLE AND Lending
Job Title: AFS CL3 SME / Consultant
Location: Cleveland, OH - Onsite Preferred, (open to remote – if remote, travel as needed (minimal travel and would need to be in EST)
Must have:
• 3-5 years of experience in AFS CL3
• 5-7 years of commercial lending experience
Primary Responsibilities:
• Provides subject matter expertise in the AFS CL3 application. Assists client in implementing, upgrading, or migrating from AFS CL3 application.
• Utilizes professional expertise to perform analysis, and/or development activities with technology. Requires demonstrated subject matter expertise in the specified application.
• Serve as the subject-matter-expert on the AFS CL3 (mainframe platform) commercial loan application.
• Strong knowledge and technical understanding of AFS CL3 system with implementation/upgrade experience.
• Consult on large project initiatives for commercial loan system implementation, upgrade, and data migration effort from AFS CL3 to AFS vision or Loan IQ.
• Understand accounting process of AFS CL3 and be able to define the approach to handle account balances of CL3 accounts during platform migration.
• Lead the change management of commercial loan servicing data and processes.
• Ensure execution of tasks defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
Best Regards,
Akash Jangwal
My response:
Permit me to clarify a couple of points:
1. If you had actually read my resume, you would have realized that my AFS / CL3 experience is very out of date. I have not worked with this system for decades. This tells me that you aren’t really paying attention – you’re just key word searching and hoping to get a hit. I find this lazy and careless approach to recruiting to be unprofessional and insulting.
2. Wild horses and the French Foreign Legion could not drag me to an urban shithole like Cleveland Ohio. Quality of life means something, and that is why I moved to northern Idaho over 20 years ago.
While I am open to remote work, I will not entertain a job posting reference from you under any circumstances.
Regards,
I’m certainly not going to move to a big blue city for any amount of money.
It’s not worth it to uproot and willy nilly move for some job, when they can fire you and or lay you off for any reason, at any time
I found by happenstance that moving to a new job would raise my pay.
You gain experience. Keep the resume up to date. Go to places like salary.com to see the pay levels. Learn new things. Definitely get office skills like Word and Excel. You can learn much on the internet for free for jobs in an office and other skills.
Other jobs may mean going to a trade school for hands on training. Ignore the doubters and that includes yourself. Be prepared when you go in for an interview. Number 1 is turn off the phone!
Dress for the job. Ask questions about the job. Never say you will be there a short time and move on. Get the job, learn all you can then start to look for that better paying long term job. Once you have a job be sure not to talk about personal stuff or the boss to your co-workers. Politicians in every work place. Save your money.
Maybe it means that there are so many people who are 'set' with family money that they really don't HAVE to have a job.
If that were so, it would explain a lot of the craziness we see now... growing belief in socialism, climate hysteria, trannies, pervs going after children, rampant drug use, apathy, nihilism, silly pastimes like twitter, TicTock, decay of our most important institutions, etc.
If people are grounded in reality because they MUST have a serious income-producing job, they tend not to have hobbies such as the above. You can talk sense to them.
I just insist on 100% remote contracts. Moving is no longer necessary.
No mention of confiscatory property taxes that make it harder than heck to sell and/or buy a home...
Probably need to fa tor in a lot of millennials and younger who never left the nest and have no intention of ever doing so.
Can’t afford to rent or buy in another city if you’re still paying off that useless degree that prepped you for a job that has lower market value than, say, a Starbucks barista.
So few people are willing to relocate for a new job.
Except those from India
I just plain don’t want to work in an office anymore. There is not legitimate reason for the kind of work I do not to be remote. I’ll work for any decent company as long as they have enough work for me and I can do it remotely.