notsurenymore

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by notsurenymore 3y ago
It’s finally come to a close. I found a job through a referral via family member. I have to move somewhere I really don’t want to move, and may not even be able to hold done the job for long, but screw it. I’m just hoping I can find a way o
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> companies seem much more picky (“you were great but we want someone with more tenure in <specific variant of field>”) This was my exact experience. I’ve been out of work for a year and I’m more jaded than ever. I finally got a jo
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I was under the impression that they were trying to shift their value into selling that enterprise version.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I think it’s not even about low stress, but low barrier to entry. There are plenty of things I’d rather be doing than software development (in fact I never planned on going into this field professionally), but I just can’t. I’m also not sur
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Wow we really can’t have nice things.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Discovery… at least to an extent While you can find a some of the big names in specific genres on bandcamp, it’s always struck me as more of a place for underground and tiny artists. The genre breakdown categories tend to be pretty good, an
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Yeah that sounds similar to what my sleep schedule has been since I’ve been out of work. Prior to that I was doing mostly 12a-8a, but I was working remotely so it was easier. I do enjoy the night, it’s cooler and calmer, sadly there’s just
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I have this pattern of getting really tired in the early afternoon, and then by night time, I would be fully awake. I couldn’t just sleep when I was tired because then I won’t sleep at night, and it just become this terrible cycle. I can’t
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I’m very close to giving up. I am now on unemployment and living with a friend m. Luckily my lease ran up earlier this year so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. In the last month, I’ve had: - A call with a recruiter for a company I ap
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> Do people really apply for hundreds of jobs? I’ve done it twice. The first time was when I was 18 or 19 trying to get my first job in the industry. I put in a ton of applications, and while it felt tedious, it only took around three mo
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I applied to company using workday recently. The job was a referral and the JD made it explicitly clear I didn’t need a degree. Yet it was a required field. And of course, it wasn’t a free form text field that would allow me to just enter
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Retail applications have gotten lazy recently. I put one in, and they wanted a recorded interview. No one on the other side, I was expected to just awkwardly record myself answering some questions and send it in.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Some years ago I remember applying to a job at a well known US bank. It got to a series of checklist questions, one of which asked if I had a degree, I checked no, and it kicked me out before I could even finish the application. Honestly, I
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I try to keep my resume to one page, it’s just old advice I love heard since I was a kid. I’m not sure if it’s still good advice though, I’ve seen suggestions that it’s a hold over from before online ATS systems were common. I also try to k
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I’m not sure how accurate it is, but I started to play with jobscan to test my resume against ATS scanning. It was getting knocked for not having uselessly vague keywords like “business solutions” in the resume when they were in the job app
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Yes, but it’s equivalent to going to taco bell and deciding based on that that America has terrible Mexican food.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> What creeped me out was that it was not presented as a conspiracy theory but something completely mundane, almost a remark There are ads utilizing this trope now
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Is there a good book or something to understand postwar Japan, I’ve read bits and pieces on the ”economic miracle”, lost decade(s), the trade wars, the demographic crisis etc, but is there a good resource that compiles and connects it all?
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I used it a while back to simulate something in the HP 1000 series. Funny enough, I actually had a machine from that family, along with a variety of other more obscure and niche retro computers and other equipment, sadly I lost all of it, b
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Enterprise software in a large non tech business. Being above average won’t really help you there as the bureaucracy will choke and discard your skills, but you can get away with being average and have a pretty chill job.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I occasionally get asked about it, but it usually doesn’t matter. However I suspect it does matter in certain classes of jobs, namely federal government jobs. They way those are written just evoke an idea of box ticking based hiring to me.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Doesn’t Ark kinda do this, except with elevation, it becomes more difficult the more inland you travel.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I thought it was “just go into the trades”.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
I was briefly homeless this year (technically still am, but I lucked out and now bumming with an old friend) I was out of work for a long time and my lease ran up. I found myself stuck in one of the most overpriced (in terms of housing hous
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Or if relocation is offered.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
Yep, screened out of most I’ve applied to. I don’t tend to get past the very rigid bureaucratic checklist they do. Local government too, can’t be exactly sure why, but I assume it’s the lack of a degree.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> The only way to win is to stop playing the game. Make your own company I don’t have the time nor the resources to do that now. If I could get a job that would allow me to stabilize a bit, then I could start thinking about that.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> If you don't know any other way, learn some other way. Find some other domain of knowledge you always wanted to learn, and learn it, then figure out ways to create small businesses to monetize on it. I can “learn” anything. What I
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
If I could move at all right now, I would, but it would be difficult for me to move even domestically right now.
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by notsurenymore 3y ago
> You're currently unemployed and made nothing for a very long time. Thats true, but iirc, when filling out the forms, they ask for tax information, from two years prior to the year you're applying. > Stay on your friend&#x2

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