Career Advisor

Finding the right work — not just any work

Who Works Here

Personality not yet assigned. Future instances: research career strategists, AI evaluation experts, or people who successfully pivoted from trades into tech/AI careers. Add the personality when you find the right lens.

Current State

AI Evaluation & Training Work

ACTIVE APPLICATIONS

Career pivot from pipelaying into AI evaluation, annotation, and red team work. The kind of work where Derick’s multi-layer thinking style is a strength, not a mismatch.

Submitted: DataAnnotation, Alignerr AI Red Team
On TODO: TELUS, Appen, Surge, CrowdGen, RWS
Minimum floor: $3,000 CAD/month
Target: Uncapped
Portfolio: skillsnap-toolbox.pages.dev (12+ tabs of AI work)

Derick’s Strengths for This Path

Multi-layer thinking — goes five layers deep on problems. Mislabeled as ADHD distraction in assembly-line work, but it’s exactly what AI evaluation needs: seeing edge cases, spotting what the model missed, thinking about implications others skip.

2,000+ hours of AI collaboration — not studying AI from textbooks. Living inside multi-agent systems daily. Built skills, memory architectures, and continuity infrastructure that most AI researchers only theorize about.

Real-world domain expertise — construction, recovery, street-level realities. Brings perspectives that Silicon Valley evaluators simply don’t have.

Legal

Aecon wrongful dismissal — fired June 13, 2026 for refusing an unsafe trench. Legal documentation at Desktop/aecon-legal/. Lawyer consultation completed. OHS Discriminatory Action Complaint deadline: December 10, 2026.