I was emailed a lucrative job position through LinkedIn [View all]

[Norbert]

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It is almost to more than double what I am currently making, with the money range they were quoting. It is in the engineering field and I can check several of the bullet points. So I decided to look further. The company is Mercor, who I'm not that familiar with.

Now the bad news: It has to do with AI, which doesn't surprise me. I looked up some of the names involved with Mercor. The clincher: after viewing a couple names that sounded vaguely familiar, I see the name Paul Peter Thiel.

I am not far from retirement and could actually retire anytime to be honest. It would be nice to put extra into my retirement funds with said job, but these funds are already doing well. I am satisfied with the company I work for currently and the manager I report to told me twice recently that she does not want me to leave. The more I read on Thiel, the more unsavory a character he sounds like. Since he is a publicly avowed trumper, my research stopped immediately with the reading of his name.

The email has since been deleted.