To be fair, I've had the same thing but never had an issue just working my contracted hours

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According to this data - the safest is Recreational Therapists. However I suspect you are correct about Politicians...

They are strange but the numbers have come through from the original paper. Appendix starting on pg 62 http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/future-o...

This sounds really great - but how does something look 'fit & finish'? Is a decent Readme.md with descriptions + screenshots of a sharp app good enough, or does it need to be actually deployed somewhere public?

Typically when I am presenting a project as part of an interview I spin it up in AWS (or elsewhere) and provide login credentials for them to actually play with the application. It makes it a lot easier to discuss the specifics of how an application was built when you can demo the application directly.