Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Been there done that. Re-trained four times in 47 years.
Should people in "the live arts" do another job until this blows over?
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felixthecat
are we there yet?
Paramedic, copper or Royal Marines Officer.
Ummm...
Paramedic I get but the other two? I'd be the worlds worst plod and im 58 and female so RM Officer is completely laughable
Ummm...
Paramedic I get but the other two? I'd be the worlds worst plod and im 58 and female so RM Officer is completely laughable
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
RAF Regiment should be OK.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
Well, it ain't the legal profession.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
He can't be that good if he got caught
He was up against his Mother. No son of mine gets away with using drugs without me being wise to it.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Hopefully by the end of the course he will be safely shifting keys, have bare bitcoin and be totally untraceable
The thought did cross my mind. They made him promise only to use his skills for good not evil (this actually happened), but I’m not sure how seriously a 15yo takes that. Especially an incredibly immature one
Put it this way, I am still intercepting any mail and regularly search his room, and I give no shits about his “human rights”.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Did you blow him in?
AbsolutelyDid you blow him in?
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Doodler
You're quite nice when you smile
Me neither. I would be pretty useless if attempting to retrain as a software developer, people aren't infinitely adaptable.
ruffneck23
front left
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Mum's have an automatic exemption to any human rights legislationThe thought did cross my mind. They made him promise only to use his skills for good not evil (this actually happened), but I’m not sure how seriously a 15yo takes that. Especially an incredibly immature one
Cyber security, penetration testing etc are kind of very specialized roles that not all that many people do. You need to have quite advanced programming skills, plus a lot of the skills you'd associate with sysadmin type work as well, plus a whole boatload of stuff that's pretty specific to that job, like knowing about what exploits are likely to be present in the wild, social engineering etc. All fascinating stuff but would not be my first recommendation if you've been laid off from the Royal Ballet and are wondering what to do next.
paul mckenna
Bellend
That's commendable. So you've never thought you are due indefinite renumeration because you prefer DJing
paul mckenna
Bellend
It's surprising from what fields people go into IT from. Freecodecamp and Khan Academy etc are very real avenues to new careers without qualification
paul mckenna
Bellend
It's good that they're identifying kids with potential rather that putting them through the system. The Americans routinely now offer Cyber positions for similar kids in these positions.
paul mckenna
Bellend
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Get. Fucked.
editor
hiraethified
Seeing as no one has here ever even suggested that they are 'due indefinite renumeration because they prefer DJing" could you explain why you keep going on and on about this topic?
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hiraethified
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I did actually change career at 50, I went from sales at Sky TV to working on the New Tax Credit helpline as a Civil Se4rvant.Yes, the opportunities become almost infinite as people hit their 50s and 60s.
That was driven by desire for a change though, rather than from necessity. Sales at Sky for eight years is punishment enough for anyone.
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hiraethified
Of course I'm not saying it's impossible if you have the right sort of previous experience/qualifications/aptitude (it sounds like went from one office job to another) but right now it is incredibly hard for an unqualified older person - particularly one who has made a career in the entertainment industry - to find any kind of work. There's far fewer jobs around and ageism is still rife amongst employers.I did actually change career at 50, I went from sales at Sky TV to working on the New Tax Credit helpline as a Civil Se4rvant.
That was driven by desire for a change though, rather than from necessity. Sales at Sky for eight years is punishment enough for anyone.
Reno
The In Kraut
I changed from a career to a job at the age of 56. For a variety of reasons I wasn't able to work in computer animation anymore and now I'm a receptionist at a crisis center. The only reason why I'm able to do this is because my mortgage is paid off. If I had to pay rent or a mortgage, I would barely be able get along on my current wages.
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Don't have much to add to the thread except to laugh at all the olds claiming that cyber isn't a real thing, or hasn't been a real thing for 20+ years.
My organisation has had a head of cyber security for 5+ years now and offers an MSc in it. It's one of the fastest growing areas of IT at the moment, and there's a massive lack of expertise and talent, so it's no surprise that there's a drive to get people trained/recruited in that area.
Shit advert though obvs, and doesn't mean people could/should ditch their careers in the arts and be parachuted into cyber security with minimal retraining.
My organisation has had a head of cyber security for 5+ years now and offers an MSc in it. It's one of the fastest growing areas of IT at the moment, and there's a massive lack of expertise and talent, so it's no surprise that there's a drive to get people trained/recruited in that area.
Shit advert though obvs, and doesn't mean people could/should ditch their careers in the arts and be parachuted into cyber security with minimal retraining.
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hiraethified
What's been hard for me (and people like me) is that I've earned my living making relatively small amounts of money from multiple jobs (band, DJ, journalist, photographer, promoter, designer) and because they're often all linked, you can end up losing all of your income. Which is what happened to me.
I've declined to take up the government's advice that I should retrain to become an actor or a boxer because it would be a catastrophic waste of energy, and the kind of jobs that unemployed creatives normally fall into - pub/restaurant work etc - is completely over subscribed.
I've declined to take up the government's advice that I should retrain to become an actor or a boxer because it would be a catastrophic waste of energy, and the kind of jobs that unemployed creatives normally fall into - pub/restaurant work etc - is completely over subscribed.
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