With retirement age looming I was looking for something part time myself, just to slow down a bit. There is very little out there compared with a year ago.Signs that the party is over.
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Recruiter Hays to lay off 17pc of its Irish workforce – amid warnings Ireland’s multinational jobs boom has stalled
Recruitment firm Hays Ireland is consulting with its staff about redundancies because of what it said was “a more cautious hiring market”.m.independent.ie
Yeah it's getting barren !With retirement age looming I was looking for something part time myself, just to slow down a bit. There is very little out there compared with a year ago.
Well the caveat to that is the Chinese AI (DeepSeek)alternative to ChatGpt which doesn't need the Nvida chips or energy consumption.Nvidia alone today is down 600 billion dollars or 16%
looks like the party is over
From that I gather the excitable fellow thinks that because AI hardware is falling in cost then the price of AI will fall as well. I am not so sure, for, as mentioned before, the far greater cost is in its implementation and it still can't reason, so the demand may not be as great as all the boys falling out of bed in anticipation may be expecting.Well the caveat to that is the Chinese AI (DeepSeek)alternative to ChatGpt which doesn't need the Nvida chips or energy consumption.
The disruption of the disruptor.
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You're after nailing it wrt cheap energy and databases.
I do not understand this nonsense pushed. All this is, is a slight correction regards the reality of the the ridiculous increase over the last few years regards the stock price of nvidia, like so many other companies. Jan 2023, two years back it was 20 dollars a share, now it went from 147 to 118 a share and back up again to 128, and it's like some kind of anything other then a correction regards the piss take that is the western stock market and inflation of the dollar. This is a huge problem still for now, as there is too much monopoly money out there for the wrong reasons regards the notions of what is muh AI and these silicon valley clowns.
We are seeing the real potential change regards the web 3.0 nonsense and muh AI, pumping the stock market regards investors that do no understand the scam of muh AI, like web 2.0 was a response to the 2000's It collapse.
Thank fuck for the chinese and opensource algorithms, which is what it is, advanced algorithms, little to do with actual real AI, it is algorithms that are trained on all the shite that the internet has to offer regards training your algorithms with. Where if ye are doing it with efficiency, as a part if the execution of such regards outcomes, you don't have to spend stupid amounts of money and energy regards getting similar results. The inefficiency of the west is getting to levels of bad that is and will cripple us completely, it isn't just die and pushing the foreigner and the women over the white male, it is a fundamental lack of understanding of balance regards particular work done and outcomes regards such. In terms of software, it has been a response that software is costly for decades, so throw cheap hardware at it, and so you end up with with a situation that efficiency in software is off the cliff regards the chinese as example in this case, or in general regards software produced.
The issue is that such software is based on cheap energy and hardware for years now, which we do not have in the west anymore increasingly.
The whole supply chain is going to be shifting as companies find ways of sourcing components closer to home and less vulnerable to political interference or distribution disruption, but it won't be happening overnight.This is going to cause ructions.
Especially for small mechanical parts for maintenance.
And who knows what else.
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learn to drive a bus --do a school run 3 hours per day --team up with 2 or 3 other people and do property maintenance/management for those who have property but no time and no skills --you can do 1 day or 2 days per week driving vans giving days off for two or 3 companies -- do vehicle delivery's -Ireland and uk .With retirement age looming I was looking for something part time myself, just to slow down a bit. There is very little out there compared with a year ago.
TBH Aul Lad I've had my fill of driving over the years, The PSV is the only category I haven't got on my licence and I have a genuine concern that I have become too impatient with traffic to be totally safe. Property maintenance is certainly an option, as is freelancing in my present job.learn to drive a bus --do a school run 3 hours per day --team up with 2 or 3 other people and do property maintenance/management for those who have property but no time and no skills --you can do 1 day or 2 days per week driving vans giving days off for two or 3 companies -- do vehicle delivery's -Ireland and uk .
some people want somebody to bring a vehicle for test and back again some want a vehicle brought to a main dealer and you figure out the public transport back .
share a tow truck between 3 of you and do nights days whatever suits .
tell me what you think-- there are a thousand things you can do if you are not a gobshite -- companies will look after people who will take their time and not cost them either money or time .
What do you do.TBH Aul Lad I've had my fill of driving over the years, The PSV is the only category I haven't got on my licence and I have a genuine concern that I have become too impatient with traffic to be totally safe. Property maintenance is certainly an option, as is freelancing in my present job.
In Ireland's past ~ ~ This sort of Treason would have ended up with an IRA ? !We could have invested in infrastructure and indigenous manufacturing, our own tech startups. Built houses for the workers, and incentivised our greatest resource, our youngest and brightest to stay.
Instead we enriched the already rich and voted in mediocrity.
Now we don't even have a metro to our main airport, and hundreds of thousands of gimmegrants, with that other golden goose, our tourism industry struggling on life support.
I guess we deserve what is coming, sad to say.
Fashion is one of the first sectors to be hit as people curb their spending.New Look to exit Ireland, 347 workers facing redundancy
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0220/1497847-new-look-to-go-into-liquidation/
I wonder if theft was a factor in this.
As things go south, any and all retail outlets will be hit with the usual robbers visiting from the East
Awful tat in those shops. Made in China fast fashion. I feel sorry for the staff, but the writing has been in the wall for the likes of New Look.Fashion is one of the first sectors to be hit as people curb their spending.
MY bones say crypto will climb and be then flooded with sales to collapse it along with carefully placed hit pieces in order to get the really only true currency in the world apart from gold and silver .We are in full scale crash warning now as the bubble is burst. Watch out below and gold and silver will get crushed as well.
i feel the biggest loser will be the untold 1000s of crypto couns
So what Yankee products will we have to learn to do without during the incoming trade war, Netflix, jibby jabs and Harly Davidson? No great hardship reallyHot off the presses !
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EU vows firm response as Trump signals 25% tariffs coming
The European Commission has said that it will react "firmly and immediately against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade" after US President Donald Trump said his administration would soon announce a 25% tariff on imports from the EU.www.rte.ie
Boeing, John Deere, Catterpillar Milwakee tools.So what Yankee products will we have to learn to do without during the incoming trade war, Netflix, jibby jabs and Harly Davidson? No great hardship really
Interestingly I have seen Ryanair staff wearing ID badges dangling from Boeing neck ribbons of late.Boeing, John Deere, Catterpillar Milwakee tools.
That's the good stuff.
Well Boeing!!!! Apparently Ryanair have their own engineering reps on site.
That's what I was thinking, they don't apply to goods made by American companies that are not imported back to the States. John Deere, for instance, will be largely unaffected as its German built tractors are mainly destined for European markets while some of their US built models do make it across here, but not that many.It will not be a mess at all, only goods coming into the US will have a tariff. Massey can build a tractor in england and sell it in italy etc without issue