I used to work for Adecco (contracting agency) and still get emails from time to time. They're hiring for kitchen staff for the Apple Park campus in Cupertino. Pay rate is $15 to $20 per hour. That's the going rate at Facebook. Contractors get fewer perks than fulltime employees.
The U.S. needs more younger people. The majority of younger people in the 21st century will be born in developing countries. Meanwhile, developed countries will have more old people (retirees) than young people (taxpayers). That imbalance will dramatically change society in the coming years.
Because in a permanent job, HR will be looking at you closely, monitoring the amount of time you spend on your employer's dime getting into childish arguments on Slashdot.
HR would determine that I get my job done in one hour and recommend laying off three to five workers to give me enough work to keep me preoccupied for the remaining seven hours.
As a permanent employee, you are more likely to be shuffled onto the work that they can't find anyone else to do.
As a contract employee, I look for the work that the permanent employees don't want to do. I get a lot of crap on Slashdot for cleaning out storage closets, but every IT department I ever worked in needed some kind of organization before I can even start my job. By maintaining a clean work area, I set an example to the other workers that they don't have work in obscene clutter.
[...] if spamming links on Slashdot were *really* a money-maker, other people would be doing it at commercial scale.
It helps to have a 10+ year old account with excellent karma and get more up votes than down votes by the mods. A brand new account would get modded to obivilion in short order.
But no, it requires you to sit there, read through all the comments [...]
Which is what I've already been doing for years. That task has gotten easier as the jocks run off the nerds, and most comments lack intellectual heft.
think of some way to jam an affiliate link into your response, write your response, and post it.
That's the easy part. The hard part is analyzing the sales data. I want to go after the people who drop $1K in a single purchase (7 to 10 cups of coffee). I had three in the last three months.
This is Slashdot. Facts are mocked. Figures are low balled. Success is scorned. Suicide is the answer for everyone else's problems. Nihilism at its best.
You're making the assumptions that coffee money represents only one cup of coffee per day (some people drink two cups per day), and that the potential income is a flat line instead of a curve.
Whenever a recruiter or hiring manager asks why I don't want a "permanent" job, I ask them why they're hiring a contractor and not a "permanent" employee. I can't get a "permanent" job if all I'm being offered is contract jobs.
If you're an IT support contractor, you're thinking about your next job the moment you show up for Day 1 at your new job. When I did a six week contract at Sony, I had job interviews on the cellphone while in the men restroom (mostly in front of the mirror but sometimes at the urinal), as that was the only private spot I could find. For a few weeks, I had an phone interview every day. I had a new job lined up as soon as I finished the contract.
Taking refuge in nonsense is the last recourse of the the idiot.
Uh, no. Everything I do on Slashdot is a marketing experiment. Amazon doesn't provide granular data on what links are being clicked from where on Slashdot. I already know that some Slashdot readers will click on any old link. So I changed the tag in the Spam links that I use for "spamming" my critics. I'm curious to know how many people are curious that Spam comes in different flavors, as most grocery stores have one or two other flavors in stock..
So, to see a similar effect to the Black Death, a modern plague would have to wipe out about 1/4 of all living humans and take over a 100 years for full recovery. That means BILLIONS dead, not hundreds of millions
I guess you haven't read about the population trends for this century: population will peak to 10B by 2050 and decline to 6B by 2100. About 4B people will die from old age in the latter half of this century.
Or JK Rowling, George Eliot, and other writers of fiction
I've done the opposite with my gender-neutral pen name, C.D. Reimer, writing short stories with lead female characters, and submitting them to anthologies edited by female editors. I've gotten quite a few first serial sales that way. Mostly because writers, including female writers, tend to write short stories with a lead male character. A short story with a lead female character stands out from the crowd.
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I used to work for Adecco (contracting agency) and still get emails from time to time. They're hiring for kitchen staff for the Apple Park campus in Cupertino. Pay rate is $15 to $20 per hour. That's the going rate at Facebook. Contractors get fewer perks than fulltime employees.
We don't need more people.
The U.S. needs more younger people. The majority of younger people in the 21st century will be born in developing countries. Meanwhile, developed countries will have more old people (retirees) than young people (taxpayers). That imbalance will dramatically change society in the coming years.
Because in a permanent job, HR will be looking at you closely, monitoring the amount of time you spend on your employer's dime getting into childish arguments on Slashdot.
HR would determine that I get my job done in one hour and recommend laying off three to five workers to give me enough work to keep me preoccupied for the remaining seven hours.
As a permanent employee, you are more likely to be shuffled onto the work that they can't find anyone else to do.
As a contract employee, I look for the work that the permanent employees don't want to do. I get a lot of crap on Slashdot for cleaning out storage closets, but every IT department I ever worked in needed some kind of organization before I can even start my job. By maintaining a clean work area, I set an example to the other workers that they don't have work in obscene clutter.
Have some I Love Spam socks with your whine.
And a billion more people will be impersonating hi... I mean me.
No one wants to impersonate you, an anonymous 14-year-old wanker.
[...] if spamming links on Slashdot were *really* a money-maker, other people would be doing it at commercial scale.
It helps to have a 10+ year old account with excellent karma and get more up votes than down votes by the mods. A brand new account would get modded to obivilion in short order.
But no, it requires you to sit there, read through all the comments [...]
Which is what I've already been doing for years. That task has gotten easier as the jocks run off the nerds, and most comments lack intellectual heft.
think of some way to jam an affiliate link into your response, write your response, and post it.
That's the easy part. The hard part is analyzing the sales data. I want to go after the people who drop $1K in a single purchase (7 to 10 cups of coffee). I had three in the last three months.
You should provide facts.
This is Slashdot. Facts are mocked. Figures are low balled. Success is scorned. Suicide is the answer for everyone else's problems. Nihilism at its best.
365 x 4.65 = $1697.25 per year.
You're making the assumptions that coffee money represents only one cup of coffee per day (some people drink two cups per day), and that the potential income is a flat line instead of a curve.
You're scrabbling for pennies.
Keep telling yourself that.
Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts, Teriyaki Spam and Hot & Spicy Spam for your whine.
Whenever a recruiter or hiring manager asks why I don't want a "permanent" job, I ask them why they're hiring a contractor and not a "permanent" employee. I can't get a "permanent" job if all I'm being offered is contract jobs.
If you're an IT support contractor, you're thinking about your next job the moment you show up for Day 1 at your new job. When I did a six week contract at Sony, I had job interviews on the cellphone while in the men restroom (mostly in front of the mirror but sometimes at the urinal), as that was the only private spot I could find. For a few weeks, I had an phone interview every day. I had a new job lined up as soon as I finished the contract.
Taking refuge in nonsense is the last recourse of the the idiot.
Uh, no. Everything I do on Slashdot is a marketing experiment. Amazon doesn't provide granular data on what links are being clicked from where on Slashdot. I already know that some Slashdot readers will click on any old link. So I changed the tag in the Spam links that I use for "spamming" my critics. I'm curious to know how many people are curious that Spam comes in different flavors, as most grocery stores have one or two other flavors in stock..
You shilling on slashdot probably nets you maybe $10 a week.
I make coffee money. Daily.
lol-k, so you are willing to change the conversation to prevent looking like you were wrong
You thought I was paying attention to you? Awkward...
I wake up this morning, and I see creimer talking shit about someone else's bad spelling.
Have some Hot & Spicy Spam with your whine.
Do you just blurt out the first thing that pops into your fat head at any given moment, creimer?
Have some Teriyaki Spam with your whine.
So, to see a similar effect to the Black Death, a modern plague would have to wipe out about 1/4 of all living humans and take over a 100 years for full recovery. That means BILLIONS dead, not hundreds of millions
I guess you haven't read about the population trends for this century: population will peak to 10B by 2050 and decline to 6B by 2100. About 4B people will die from old age in the latter half of this century.
did you forget your affiliate link [amazon.com] you fat fuck
Nope. Made my numbers for today shortly after midnight. I'm good.
"Another one of my revenue streams dried up completely, I forgot about it."
Good Reads has never been a revenue stream.
Another creimer lie....
Zoom in on my face without showing any hair. Male, female or can't tell?
You are thinking small there, soooo 18th century
The 1918 Spanish flu killed 50M to 100M people.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4171001.C_D_Reimer
I haven't looked at that profile since Good Reads got bought by Amazon. Something else for my to do list.
I really like the gender-neutral bearded fat man picture.
Without a beard I look like a woman. After a few odd conversations on Twitter, I always post my picture with a beard.
Seriously you know what he/she meant.
If I did, I wouldn't be looking it up. :P
Or JK Rowling, George Eliot, and other writers of fiction
I've done the opposite with my gender-neutral pen name, C.D. Reimer, writing short stories with lead female characters, and submitting them to anthologies edited by female editors. I've gotten quite a few first serial sales that way. Mostly because writers, including female writers, tend to write short stories with a lead male character. A short story with a lead female character stands out from the crowd.
If you had creimer on your team, no VC would show up in the first place!
Have some Spam-flavored Macadamia Nuts with your whine.