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".
Chances are low that this will get the message across, but maybe they'll at least stop bothering me with this garbage.
By the way, they offered $160 per hour. Which is less than what I normally charge for expert work!
@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)
@joepie91 if I could charge that much for any amount of my time I would be eating caviar for breakfast