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Spam reportedFashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
One income, home educating family3 -
I am about 2/3 of the way through a first draft of my job application. I have even been all modern and have asked one of the AIs to help me identify gaps and to consider whether the level of detail is appropriate or excessive. I'm quite impressed, you really don't see AIs at their best when you're reviewing whether or not they've edited an image correctly etc.
I have also used Mrs E as my first human reviewer and will also share with elder sibling, a former colleague and a current colleague in the service I'm applying for. AI isn't being allowed to write anything, that's my job.7 -
Ooh, all fingers crossed Ed! You're putting a lot of effort in, I hope it pays off!6
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Cheers Cheery, I am not holding back this time!5
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Well done for getting stuck into it and building in accountability reviewers 😊 You are giving yourself the very best chance 😊🤞
I found it quite interesting using AI to prep for interviews last time round - it stitched some quite random things together, from very far apart in the timeline of my career which I wouldn’t have thought to to connect, but did work together. It also extrapolated far too much, so I was able to ignore that 😉
KKAs at 15.09.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £230,969
- OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 56 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 4th October
Produce tracker: £417 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.8 -
Great that you can use the AI as a tool to help you out!
I find it most useful when I'm filling in forms that make me grit my teeth in frustration!
Like KajiKita I found it most valuable when preparing the creative writing answers in applications or in interview questions as it made correlations based on what is saw in my CV irrespective of where in the timeline those items appeared.4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 7 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 17 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!6 -
I don't know whether it's helpful, but in general I've found Claude a LOT more useful than Mr GPT. You do have to log in (it's free) but it seems a lot more insightful and less bland. Not used it for this though.7
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Well done for the effort and accountability reviews. Fingers crossed for you.,Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became
In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!5 -
I have done my best to address a couple of items of urgent work but realistically I'm going to need to plough on with my application for my own peace of mind. 6-7 competencies to be addressed (I think one of them has been duplicated by mistake). Skiving off not the best but as elder sibling says, CS staff can actually get paid time to complete internal job applications!£10.12 OPed.5
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Hi Ed,
If one of the competencies has been duplicated by mistake it would worth querying it, so you do do address ALL the required competencies - that way you might stand out.
KKAs at 15.09.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £230,969
- OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 56 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 4th October
Produce tracker: £417 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.6
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