Andrzej3K [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 24th, 2024

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  • So this problem may be local to Spain, but over the last fifteen years there has been a huge change in the industry, with everything consolidating into these huge, HR-driven companies. The era of small academies wasn’t perfect, but they were generally friendly, family-run places whose strategy was to deliver a good service. The new model is about getting people in and out the door, and monetizing propriety materials — which are increasingly AI-generated. Oh and pay is stagnant or worse.

    There has been a change in the profile of student too — from people driven by a desire for personal enrichment and just enjoyment (no-one has the spare cash for that anymore) to people who need to pass a particular exam for work.

    There’s also the timetable — split shifts every day, all but ensuring that you never see your kids. That isn’t new, but there used to be enough demand that you could piece something together as a freelance.



  • I’m pretty competent with React, and I just finished a crud project with Next.js (never again lol). It does seem like there are a lot of offers looking for Angular, so I guess that’s next on the list - just as soon as I get good enough with Go to use that as the backend. My portfolio is hosted on my own hardware with a self-hosted git server and Jenkins pipeline. I worked so hard on it, and felt so proud, but it seems getting anyone to even look at it is incredibly difficult shrug-outta-hecks