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Apparently bank employees can get discounted mortgage rates at some places. Anyone heard of anything else like this?

Unfortunately cybersecurity doesn't have much in the way of unique benefits. The government mostly has access to decent employee discounts, but that is all.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9297311/trigger-rate-mortgages-bank-of-canada/

I am defining J1 here as the job you prioritize vs the jobs you just milk for cash. A job that actually uses relevant tech, has smart people, still lets you learn stuff, etc. in comparison with my J2 and my prior J2 which are/were staffed with idiots.

My J1 recently laid off a large portion of the staff. One of those across the board cuts where every team lost in 1 in 5 people. Got to see the people on dark on Slack live as they turned out the lights.

I survived, as did my team due to open positions. However, I have never really lived through a period of layoffs, nor do I know how layoffs work.

I am in the midst of searching for a J3 and have a dozen interviews past the third stage or

A lot of you have probably never really encountered a true B or C player or been part of a B or C organization. Why? You got good grades, got into a good school, got into a professional track program, and got a good job out of university and a reputable company. Your employers could always be picky and could hire similar people who had what amounted to a lifelong record of achievement since the 5th grade.

And then the labour shortage happened. Some died. Some retired. Some went back to school. And for those of us in the digital world, we were always on the cusp of a staffing crisis anyway. Devs weren't exactly abundant in 2019 either.

That led to the Great Resignation. My J1 had a three-

Between my 3 jobs, I have about $6000 in training money available to me. As someone always looking to optimize my returns, I am obviously interested in using it to benefit me in some way if possible.

Before my J1 started thinking more about career development and I got two other jobs, my experience with training opportunities was maybe a few bucks for Udemy.

What ideas have you got? As far as I know, my managers have extreme flexibility with the money.

EDIT: Field is software development.

So happy that I need no longer care about this stuff.

At my job 3, they just announced return to office for anyone who lives nearby. This is even though they hired people remotely with the explicit expectation of them staying remote.

I live many provinces away, so I got an exemption. Nobody else did though :)

You should trust your company on remote policy as much as you trust them on pay raises.

Moved 2 hours away? Fuck you. In you come.

If you need a Starbucks to wake you up in the morning for that job, you would be better off going to work groggy and saving the money.

Unsurprisingly excellence is nowhere to be found in that organization.