“SALARY: Competitive”, What?!

Dr Stuart Woolley
7 min readApr 15, 2021

Another exposed metal object on the software job searching minefield.

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels

LinkedIn, It’s a Banger

I’d like to say I have an on-off love affair with LinkedIn, but it’s more like owning an old banger of a car you can’t realistically get rid of. Let’s go with the analogy that it gets you to the shops for food, mostly, but you have to put up with the continuous clanking, oil patch on your driveway, and endless expensive repair bills.

And, as a result, you get a headache just by looking at it.

These days it’s likely, especially if you’re in the software game like me, that you’ll have a profile there as there’s no real alternative around the moment¹. Its use depresses the soul like the black mould between the tiles on a bathroom wall — you know you could get rid of it with a bit of effort but you just put up with it looking back at you in the mirror when you’re washing your face in the morning. You just leave the bathroom as quickly as possible closing the door behind you, out of sight out of mind.

Anyway, enough of the comparisons, I could really go to town on this.

Today’s fun revolves around the hideously inaccurate job listings I continually receive as a result of two fatal mistakes:

  • I did some coding tests for vanity purposes²…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
Dr Stuart Woolley

Written by Dr Stuart Woolley

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, X, and Overwatch fan.

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