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Let's not conflate 4 years of undergrad with a crash course in leadership. Id take someone in the military for 4 years over most college grads with a useless ma

Let's not conflate 4 years of undergrad with a crash course in leadership. Id take someone in the military for 4 years over most college grads with a useless major any day of the week. For one, the degree and failure to apply it shows me that make bad decision or can't execute a plan. The military person shows me they are a leader, can make tough decisions, and are able to keep going when thing get tough.

sodafountan 7y ago
Hiring is much more nuanced than that. Putting people into categories like "Military Person" and "College Grad" is stupid. I think we should all appreciate people's life choices, recognize people's hard work no matter how they went about doing that hard work (military, college, self-taught... who cares) and give people equal opportunities. I've come to find that this is typically how life plays out anyway, most decent companies aren't particularly worried about the minutia of your background and are much more focused on what you know and what you can bring to the table now, and rightfully so. I like meritocracies. The world should always operate as a meritocracy. It's 2020 for fucks sake lets end the gate-keeping.
- blackflame 7y ago
  Did you just comment to tell me there are more than 2 types of people in this world? TIL.
  - blackflame 7y ago
    The descriptions were for you to understand the type of person I was talking about. It was intended to give two examples of a contrast of how I evaluate the character of people. People are not defined by their job type. I thought that should be clear. Instead, you distorted it into some asinine job title defines the person interpretation. You must vote democrat. It gets exhausting trying to categorize everyone into their little groups where you think they belong. Spend time doing something else like thinking of ways to get people to unite and love each other more.

sodafountan 7y ago

Hiring is much more nuanced than that. Putting people into categories like "Military Person" and "College Grad" is stupid. I think we should all appreciate people's life choices, recognize people's hard work no matter how they went about doing that hard work (military, college, self-taught... who cares) and give people equal opportunities. I've come to find that this is typically how life plays out anyway, most decent companies aren't particularly worried about the minutia of your background and are much more focused on what you know and what you can bring to the table now, and rightfully so. I like meritocracies. The world should always operate as a meritocracy. It's 2020 for fucks sake lets end the gate-keeping.

blackflame 7y ago
Did you just comment to tell me there are more than 2 types of people in this world? TIL.
- blackflame 7y ago
  The descriptions were for you to understand the type of person I was talking about. It was intended to give two examples of a contrast of how I evaluate the character of people. People are not defined by their job type. I thought that should be clear. Instead, you distorted it into some asinine job title defines the person interpretation. You must vote democrat. It gets exhausting trying to categorize everyone into their little groups where you think they belong. Spend time doing something else like thinking of ways to get people to unite and love each other more.