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Hi All,
SPG, yeah, the advice offered when job hunting is bizarre. I have a PhD, and someone advised to take it off my resume! Nothing doing. That was the last he heard from me.
And I got laid off around the age of 60 and it was a long slog getting either work or gigs. And then when I did get traction, it was way too much ... almost. But I survived it.
Oh, thanks for suggesting Grand Obsession. Just finished reading it. She's a great writer, and I was cheering for her the whole time. [I had time because I staying close to home due to feeling "out of tune."]
D, enjoy the slack period. Some ideas are always building during those times.
CTJ, after I watched a demo using AI to generate text for grant proposals I realized my career drafting grants was near its end. The thing I learned, and you're probably getting to see, is that you have to figure out the prompts that get the better results. And also how to teach AI what it needs to do better.
What was most startling was when the presenter gave Chat GPT (Chester is my nickname) a budget with a couple of amounts (total, how much to rent the hall and for the keynoter's fee) it spewed back a detailed draft for us. It also added 7.5% for evaluation. The presenter hadn't even thought about that, and that percent is the about what the industry roughs in for estimating purposes.
Now I use Chester a lot to draft letters. For example, I needed to close out a contract with a bookkeeping service. I gave it the dates, that 30 days is the notice time, and what we needed from them. And it gave a decent draft. I've also used it for meeting minutes, where it's a whiz. For an actual grant, I needed 50 suggestions for how people might volunteer to support a community garden: a minute later I had them.
I just used it to clean up the transcript from notes I voice recorded as I read a book I had a contract to review. I then had it cycle through and point out sentences longer than 12 words and suggest alternative wording (which I usually had to tweak from there).
Anything factual needs to be double checked. Just got a reference to a piano recording by Anton Rubinstein (should be Arthur). And once some legal case citations were totally bogus when checked into. Hay, it's 2.5 years old. When I was that age I knew only 647 words, according to Google's AI.
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