London

Alright,

I am 35, unemployed, living with my mom. Going great.

So, I have few masters degrees and could be a professional programmer (especially .net 4.5, SQL and backend-stuff). I used to work in finance in London.

I do not want to go back to London, I fucking hate that place. But I could probably find work in there pretty easily.

Britbongs, or other locals, give me some positives in London

Is Lewisham great nowdays? Eltham brilliant? Lovely stuff in Tower Hamlets? All I see is that britslag thread over here.

Move to based croydon

Peckham is LIT

This is literal image of Tower Hamlets why would you move there? Don't go to inner London but find a place that is more outside,it's stil part of the city

Some headhunter called me and told me that "some places are nice now, like Croydon is very nice place to live nowdays"... while they have knife attacks in Croydon. Yea, no thanks.

My problem is that only livable places in London are in the West and I aint got money to live in there.

>35,unemployed,living with mom work in IT
You should just an hero at this point tbhq.

That was sarcasm. I am too white to live in Tower Hamlets. I used to train there (MMA) with brazilians. That was fun... for them. If I came alone I had to be quite careful. Once almost got my ass kicked for wearing flipflops.

I do not work in IT. Otherwise you are correct.

I have never worked in IT, I was front-office banking cunt.

soyim fingol detected

Why don't you try some other city,maybe you would have chance too.

Problem in finance is that it is all about who you know. If you have been in one place, it is easier to get back there.

Would love to do Singapore or Hong Kong. Maybe NY, but I do not know anybody from these places. So it is extreme hard to get in there.

get a tan and register as a underraged rapefugee for gibs in germany

then get celebrated by liberals as a diverse genius because you can write your name

do some unregistered work on the side as a programer or whatever you are good at that can be done from a PC while attending courses how to rape german women and safe it up for harder times

Kinda thicc coming from France

I am conflicted about your pic

Its whatever you make of it really, You have the advantage of bringing qualifications. Good on you son. I been here all my life and its more like living in an EU city. I find more reasons to hate the place than to enjoy it. But that's because i'm a nobody.

Come on, you live in fucking Transylvania, Count Dracula. Just waking up probably makes you want to end it all.

The "the knife attacks" are 99% black/Romanian/Turkish drug dealers stabbing eachother, really unlikely for anything to ever happen to you, still a shithole though

Gave that a thought.

But
1) very white
2) no beard
3) I would be outed because I would get bored just standing around looking at other people in city center somewhere. I would try to do something and therefore lose the status of helpless rapefugee

WTF work in some less important position and place then,what kind of a unemployed guy living with mother cherry picks jobs like that? Not all finance jobs are high finance, you have those in lower ranks

Ah Camden. Used to be fucking cool. Now it is only tourists.

Only bad news coming out of there, hence I am rather still living with my mom than there.

Fuck off, we're full. If you're not coming here specifically to join a right wing death squad then you're not needed.

Haha

Like I can get a job as a low paid bank worker.

Nobody is hiring me, just because they know that I would likely fuck off immediately I find something better.

Fucking Accenture told me that "they do not have enough challenge for me"

You could move to the other Camden.

If you mean Camden, NJ, then no. I would need a visa.

Well... Happy to join your group. Went through the army (required by the state) in special forces (parachute troops). So I would fit right in.

>Like I can get a job as a low paid bank worker.

So what do you want to be?George Soros maybe kek it's not going to happen if you are good at what you do you would already be rich because all Upper Class Bankers are

There are no ''right wing death squads'' in Britain the bong friend is just LARping and it seems you do to.

You can probably start contracting right away for decent money.
The living situation will be a trade off - if you want white neighbours you will either have to pay A LOT or have longer commute every day.
I live in NW London, it's more or less safe but unsightly

Used to be rich. Women came. Now poor. cest la vie.

Things you should know: middle eastern women are hot.

Not joking about my history.

and yes, understood that there are no squads... yet.

Sit on linkedin and try and connect to bankers in HK, SG, NYC, etc. Also get your shit in Excel, kdb and hadoop together. Do some cheap online courses for these, nothing over the top.

How far off from city you live?

This I have never understood. Call me oldfag, or something, but I do not get Linkedin

how do you connect to people? people I used to work with do not use it. Just send messages randomly?

I used to work in commodities trading.

>could be a professional programmer
just get some remote work then

I live in Zone 3 and work in central London, it's 20min tube ride + 10min walking to get into work.
Working from home often too.
I don't mind it because I'm quite a shut-in, only leave home for work and gym.
That said, I dream of the day when me and my spouse will get out of London and into a white home county. We manage to save a lot so hopefully not long now.

The whole Camden borough is just another part of London. Has fantastic pubs though. Don't really go down there much now a days though. Theres better places than Camden. Like Ebay.

The best is to start a blog, keep them short and post links on LinkedIn. The keywords alone will start the process of people finding you. No one does quality blogging around the low levels of banking so if your honest on what you were doing day to day that will bring a lot of attention. I had a single blog post on Q get me a gig in IB.

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>give me some positives in London
Stay out of Zones 2 and 3, keep away from Caliphate Halalets, Waltham Forest and Harringey and you're good to go.

Where in IB you ended up?

Did you just link to them, so I gather you did not use Linkedin as blogging platform?

LinkedIn is a must have in London. Your background seems very appealing, Financial Services hire a lot and pay a lot.
Look for jobs at these sites:
eFinancial Careers
Dice
LinkedIn
glassdoor

Consider temp/contracts at first to get your foot in the door fast. Temping is through agencies, once they are convinced you lay gold eggs you'll have work all the time.

t. working in the Recruitment industry for financial services companies in London

How does a person become comedian in Britain?

Harringey isn't that bad

I'm on an FX trading desk. Use your own domain and make sure your details on prominent on every page. Don't use linkedIn's platform but instead fill every post with quality keywords.

What’s Q, Quartz?

Are financial services hiring a lot and in what areas?

Like said, used to be in commodities trading and that went down the drain 2011. Usually cannot get to FO stuff in other asset classes. Or are they in such a need that I could?

Seriously how do you get job in movies or television in Britain?There are so many celebrities from Britain what do they do?They don't need any diploma so what happens?

>yet
I like your optimism

Currently in 2/3 and it ain't that bad, considering the amount of niggers.

Are you in London or in Prague?

How does it look like? Are there needs or very slow hiring?

Why the hell would you name some of the worst places in London....?

One can dream...

Just say silly things. You don't even have to be funny or say funny witty things. Just be silly and childish and they go nuts and will give you lots of money.

sarcasm sir.

And used to live in Lewisham. That was fun and .... exotic for a white guy.

The areas you mention are kind of shitty and out of the way, check out these areas in the south west: Tooting, Clapham, Balham, Brixton.

London. Just on holiday right now.

I see like 100 ppl being onboarded every Monday and we are far from the biggest shop in town.

Wow

>could be a professional programmer
>COULD be a...
Then be one

Obvs norf weezy senpai

From what I've observed (I'm not a recruiter, but consult in the HR domain), FO hiring is mostly headhunting and very under the table, there are some crazy stories what happens when a valuable trader tries to resign.
From what I gathered you are qualified for IT / Functions though? That's quite straight forward, like normal hiring process.

If you want to gauge the market better, my advice is to speak to 2-3 agencies who specialize in Financial Services in London (e.g. Goodman Masson, Robert Walters, Michael Page, Hudson, Hays, etc - look up those that have won awards.)

Interesting.

Moved out of london 2014. It was very fucking slow every year I spent there. But apparently now getting better.

It is just that the job has to be 100% for me to move back there. FO roles in trading houses, but I am not the only one searching for them and am not there atm so ...

Didn't take me long to find a mutt in this thread talking shit he knows nothing about.

You can't enter entertainment here without connections. They are all old money

I could have been a Boxer but my Amateur record is not good enough.I still belive maybe...one day

Hahaha those Amerimutt memes are hilarious and every day there are more of them

My problem is that I can get a job in IT side of banking. But do not want to. Trading desk stuff is what it would take for me to move back. And this is the first time I am hearing that there are openings. Granted, I have not been listening past two years.

Just work to make money and further your career. I'm not happy at work or in London but I'm careful with my cash so that my off time with my family is as good as can be and hopefully I can be sat at home day trading in 5 years time.

You walk into a bank because it'll pay 5-10x what you'd make elsewhere and you make a plan for what you'll do when you're done with the place a few years down the line.

>.NET 4.5
Uh, why not .NET in general? Why specifically .NET 4.5? Technically that version of the framework isn't even supported by Microsoft anymore. The differences between .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.7 are minimal too. So, yea. If you speciailized in .NET 2.0 for legacy or 3.5, for pre-2017 Unity3D development or something then I could understand.
Anyway, just bugged me that you specifically said .NET 4.5 lol.

I know I was just wondering because I have noticed that Britain has more Celebrities probably than any country in Europe so I wonder does that mean it's more easy to make there

>Pig in pic
Sorry Achmed, but pork is Haram in the UK. You should know that as a Muslim.

Consider Leeds.

Most of the IT professionals I know that aren't in London are in Leeds. There's a lot of finance stuff up here, too. I'm not in that game, though I know a few that are and all prefer it to London. Don't expect London wages, but there's not nearly as much of a gap as there used to be.

I was born here, grew up here and now I'm employing 25 people here. If you're DV cleared (which is possible for foreigners, don't let people tell you otherwise) or have attained it in the past then you'll never be out of work. Hays have a specialist recruitment office here and they deal with a lot of IT contract work. Give them an email.

>give me some positives in London

The only positive I can think of about London is that it's unsustainable and will collapse sooner than I thought.

Auntie has a home in Kensington and it was mostly white there. big houses, lovely people. Wealthy.

All the places you listed (Lewisham, Tower Hamlets) are famously awful.

What happend to ''Fuck off we are full'' ha Bongs?

Hays and LA International are the only recruiters I deal with for my business. The latter really are good. The rest are woeful. Not in terms of who they provide, but their attitude and approach to business is not something I like being involved with.

Mackenzie Stuart are about as personable as ISIS.

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Okay, you want FO... those openings are often not published for several reasons (an in-house headhunter told me this):
1) It's a relatively small and niche community, these people know each other
2) Therefore you won't release the job to agencies (it's expensive and redundant)
3) In-house headhunters look for warm introductions, and
4) log onto Bloomberg, search for traders and start cold-calling them

It's worth checking websites of big banks regularly and calling in-house recruiters, if you are a great candidate they will add you to their talent-pools and Keep Warm lists and call you when there is something.

Calling an agency is still useful though, so don't entirely ignore them.

Put it in there to sound cooler for people who do not know anything about it. lol

The funny story is that I was there, made money, moved out with the money. Had some bad luck with ladies and life and now back to zero. And now wondering if to come back there. FML

But yea, gotta try to move on.

fuck off

Live in Hackney or anywhere else in East London.
They've got the Silicon Roundabout. They've got facebook and google there I think, loads of other startups.
Hackney has been gentrified, so the only threat are hipsters on their fixies.
You worked in finance and I can see youre a .net guy. I would suggest learning some open source stacks, e.g. redis, hadoop, mapreduce, basically buzzword bingo from terms you hear off hackernews.

Thanks.

Was aware of all of this. I know that the inhouse headhunters are what I need. Had few contacts, but now they are both gone (in big banks).

Nantwich had some financial programming jobs last I looked.

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Is it just me that's noticed java and .net falling off the face of the earth in banking in the last couple years?

I've tried to avoid hadoop so long. But I think that it is now time to actual go there. I am not that interested in programming per se. It is just a tool for me, hence do not want to be a programmer.

Come on nigel, get your memes straight. Jacked up teeth is a british thing.

Destination: Europe. And these stupid cucks go on with their Amerimutt memes...

I have contacts but I can't help you via Sup Forums. :(

Log to LinkedIn and search "Front Office Recruiter [Company]", or even just "Recruiter [Company]" you will get results. Approach them and give them your CV / ask for an informational interview. I don't think many will say no, they get paid to source good candidates and you do their job for them.

Cloudera roll outs will have you spending more time on the CLI than writing code to integrate with other systems.

I'm not sure if hortonworks has sold many licenses in the city.

Thanks a lot mate.

Wondering a way where you could give me some of those... but probably it is not possible.

Good tip on that linkedin stuff!

No probs... I've worked with most banks, and I think the most decent are Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan in terms of people, culture, pay. Heard good things about Goldman Sachs too but haven't spoken to them firsthand.
HSBC and Barclays hire A LOT all the time, but culture is meh, so call them plan B

>.NET and SQL Server
No matter where you live you are going to be stuck in an office with 95% Pajeets

Heh, correct.

Luckily, I do not want to be a programmer. I rather live with my mom.

Hoping to go back to working in banking. Where 95% of the people are still cunts like me.

>do not want to be a programmer.
What work do you plan to do in London then?

Point of this thread was to britbongs to bring out some good stuff that happens in London, so I would remember something else than the shit that place is.

If I am returning there, it will be as a front-office banking cunt.

Make no mistake, London is a city of great opportunity. However it has fallen, I grew up near central London south of the river and since then I have witnessed the destruction of the white working class english culture. It simply doesn't exist anymore. Zone 1 to 2 is full of immigrants, tramps and workers from outside of london aka northerners. They have created this weird culture where they are oblivious to what London was and what being a cockney Londoner was all about. They live in this weird liberal disjointed utopia fuckfest. Tower hamlets is a muslim acid attack hell hole with some of the highest levels of deprivation of the uk, lewisham is a dying niggerfest being slowly gentrified with upteen ridiculous high rise overpriced tower block flats, eltham is one of the few last bastions of white defence as we get pushed further out to surrey, essex and kent from the roots we grew up in and loved. For me the stat that hits hard, over a quarter of london pubs have closed in the last ten years, immigrants and workers dont drink. The place is disjointed and multiculturalism has failed, unless you are a delusional uni student who knew a black person who was alright, try living in a council estate full of them. London is fucked, nothing can save this place or country anymore...other than civil war to be honest. I fucking hate this place, trump is the saviour of the world.

Maida Vale / St Johns Wood is the only area worth living in

>living
>working
what the fuck are you doing dumbass.
Save your money not live off it.
Invest in your own business/stocks/apartments to rent out, stop sitting on your moms neck and become a NEET with YOUR VERY OWN income.
Not a drag on society/ parents + don't have to do jack shit.

If you did backend asset pricing shit, bullshit your resume, say you were front office in London (they'll never check) and apply to finance in NYC as a quant/trader/derivatives MM/sales. I know, NYC is a cesspool but if you live in a rich area and cab to work you avoid most of the filth there. They are starving for workers in the US, especially finance.

I interviewed at a few places in NYC and am waiting to here back at a few. Considered London but the taxes are absurd, cuck salaries compared to NYC and it's a Muslim shithole. Plus I don't want to literally get Truck of Peaced(TM), lose my eyes via acid or end up in a kebab.

t. former MS NYC

Also not actually Hungarian just travelling across Europe fucking bitches

How the fuck are the shitskins living in Z1/Z2?! A fucking closet rents for 7000 pounds