That sounds like classic Boston to me…
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Ah that’s lovely, appreciate the sentiment. I’ll be in touch
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i share this with kindness in my heart - it’s headline is pretty doom and gloom, but there’s interesting stuff in here, obvs from a younger software engineers’ perspective (which has some similarities with creative, but not a ton of overlap).
my team experienced about 10-15% layoffs about a year and a half ago, and i lost a couple of people who could do things nobody else on the teams could cover. we still miss them. we’re still mad about it all. and in that, i’ve really changed my perspective on what i am and am not willing to do for this company.
it’s an arbitrary milestone, but i decided that if in 2025 i really want to battle situational depression with any tangible results, i need to separate my work value from my non-work value - and for me that means investing a lot more time into creating the things that i’m proud of, the things that make me feel comfort while creating them, and learning more, for me - not for my marketable attributes. it also means investing less in this dumb job and giving them just enough to worry about the adverse effects if i was let go or left. anything more than a strictly transactional relationship with work only does me a disservice.
if there’s two things in the world i hate doing, it’s buying/selling cars and looking for work/interviewing for jobs. i need to do both this year. but more importantly, i need to get into the habit of playing employment roles off of each other - i need to make this company worry about the other company’s offer. so, that’s part of the 2025 goal - be ready, and not in a smarmy linkedin sort of way, but able to sleep at night knowing there’s hope should this company get capricious and “belt tighten” again.
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Yep. It is what it is though.
I unknowingly found myself out of a job the day I went back to work recently in January. The role was sponsorship and digital marketing manager for a community radio station (albeit one that has existed for 40 years) and after only 12 months in the role it was deemed by the board of directors that in the current economy, they could only afford one full time staff member, not two.
Annoyingly I was headhunted for this role from another station, one that I had been at for 4 years and so I now find myself looking for work for the first time in a long time. @deepconcentration 's aforementioned ethos of the “need to separate my work value from my non-work value” is something I also firmly believe is so important the older we get. Despite having two kids and a mortgage, I’ve learned through experience that you need to put your own needs well above living for the company, especially from a mental health perspective.
I see myself as an asset and in 2025, despite the job market dwindling, I still believe that if you’re good at what you do, any employer should feel lucky to have somebody with not only experience, but an open mind - a trait displayed by many in this forum.
I learned a trick years ago when going for a job interview - that it’s my role to interview them, not vice versa - I need to know if I want to invest my time in a company or organisation worth my efforts. Try it, you’ll lose any nerves you have about interviews, I promise you. Also getting them to talk about themselves is the old psychological trick that created a good impression on an employer as they associate you with them stroking their own ego and the endorphins that creates.
I’m not sure if this response was just a way for me to put my feelings down in print, but for anybody reading this in a similar situation, I hope something resonates.
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You could always become a car salesman and kill both those birds with one stone 
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Happened to me a year ago and I’m still shaken. I had 12 direct reports. No performance issues, I was my boss’s succession plan, etc. In the end, I was just a number on a spreadsheet. It took me a bit to get over it. Exercise, networking, friends, all were key in helping to move beyond the breach.
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Record stores changing the prices of new records to match the market, which is what I am assuming happened here.
…or a major typo?
I assume that’s a typo as it’s readily availble elsewhere for far less.
Strange. I spotted one of the Mr. Bongo 45s on Juno last night for £63.
Many of their record blurbs are badly written by AI. So many are totally wide of the mark, failing to identify the artist/sample/genre/premise of the record. I use Juno a lot.
Maybe AI does their pricing now too.
I’ve seen that a couple of times on Juno before, always presumed the same, they have a stock copy and they match the price it’s going for on Discogs.
top post BC. We’re all different obv but I think it can actually get harder to approach interviews as you get older, because nobody will want to employ anyone who’s jaded, cynical, apathetic which after 20-30 years is often institutionalised. The struggle I’ve had is regaining any kind of motivation since redundancy so I really envy people who can reinvent themselves.
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I don’t get why it preys on my mind as to whether Carlos Fandango is related to Clem Fandango.
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people who judge whether music is worth listening or dancing to on the narrowest of arbitrary tempi they have declared purely based on subjective biases.
like what does it even mean to say something is too fast or too slow to listen or dance to. That connotes nothing of any value about the musical content. thrash metal at 300 bpm obviously works for whatever it is trying to achieve.
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Maybe it just doesn’t sound good to their ears?
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Yeah the funkiness is very often in the space between the notes. And there’s more space to play with at slower tempos.imo
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all multiples of one another though. jungle is technically both faster and slower than house. 90s dancehall is slower than house yet can feel faster because of the bumpy clave rhythm.
same goes for a lot of trap and drill music.
Funk I think is also about what you don’t play, which is why dub reggae has always been the funkiest music to me.
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Tempo is an inherent element of how musical content is presented though.
Plus I’m getting older and the old legs get tired
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To me different tempos elicit different responses not through bias, but how we process rhythm and what feels good. House tempos work better for sustained movement. The space in-between adds to that and gives the rhythm room to breathe.
As the BPM increases people expect more intensity, and potentially more aggression (if you’re talking about thrash metal). No room for the nuance / space in-between.
Horses for courses.
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Is dubstep 140 or is it 70?
(definitely depends on the dubstep in my experience)
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