Got a spam e-mail today from a recruiter offering the 'opportunity' to 'leverage my expertise' by... training an LLM.
I replied with "a class traitor is what you are".
By the way, they offered $160 per hour. Which is less than what I normally charge for expert work!
@joepie91 if I could charge that much for any amount of my time I would be eating caviar for breakfast
@Byte Unfortunately while it sounds like a lot, after taxes and disability (ie. very limited working hours) it's barely enough to keep this (4 creature) household running
@Byte Well that's not entirely true actually, there's also a certain budget set aside for mutual aid and activism things, but it's still not exactly the 'money growing on trees' that it sounds like
@joepie91 fair.
I’m glad you found something that (mostly) works for you at least
@joepie91 more realistically if I made that much I would simply work fewer hours instead of trying to afford caviar or something like that.
@Byte Yep that's pretty much what I'm doing; generally speaking the less hours I work, the less stress I have to deal with
@joepie91 yeah, I figured there was a catch.
I understand freelance work it can be hard to have enough work to stay busy too, so even without a disability it’s not quite as much as it sounds like.
@Byte taxes, holiday, sick leave, insurance, unpaid time on admin and business development, equipment, utility bills, professional services... it all adds up!
This is a useful website for working out how a given annual salary converts into an hourly/daily rate https://dayratecalculator.co.uk/ (UK tax and cost assumptions)
Chances are low that this will get the message across, but maybe they'll at least stop bothering me with this garbage.