When I was younger I used to categorize people as 100% good or 100% bad. It is called splitting. I know people that never grew out of this - it can be really dysfunctional.
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Appropriate for about a dozen threads:
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But they are
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My experience is limited but highly successful, but I would try to be even more explicit than that. There was a guy at the library who helped people write resumes and cover letters, and his advice that dramatically improved my response rate and that helped me land my current job was just to outright tabulate their listed requirements from the ad and put right next to each how you meet that requirement as the core of your cover letter.
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Yeah its pretty common for job seekers to have a generic resume and spam the job applications. While I agree that if you want a job you should be a volume shooter and apply for many roles, its hard to get anywhere if you donāt customize.
I didnāt know it was Brit/Am. I pb and jam one toast every day. Every day. Come on Greta.
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Not so much for what I do (tech). I get recruiters constantly hitting my generic resume for roles that have absolutely nothing to do with my experience (ādo you know java?ā) My hit rate when Iām sending my resume out is extremely high, like 20-30% (sometimes way higher) I will get a phone call, at least 1/10 will get me an initial interview.
Maybe it works for me because Iām making a generic application for a very specific type of role but I definitely donāt tailor it per job, that takes way too long.
For ālow-levelā positions, i think reliability goes a long way. If youāre studying particle physics and applying for a night porter position, they know youāre not staying forever, so at least signal that youāll show up while in this transition job.
Anything big-picture or proactive is also a plus, so your garbage bag example would be good. Go ahead and take credit for lowered pest-control costs.
Note any kudos you receive from managersāthe more specific the better.
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Re: accomplishments. It seems like people canāt tell if Iām joking or not. Yes and no. Here is something Iām proud of that I think wrote about before.
Back in my aerospace days, as a night porter of a test engineer, we worked on something that had been a pet project for a guy at an outside company (might have been Lockheed, but anyway one of the big boys). He didnāt have much funding and he was getting close to retiring so if he was going to prove his idea, this was his last chance. He wanted to show that certain pressure oscillations would occur in a solid rocket motor under conditions (maybe pressure, size of the motor, propellant composition, geometry, burn rate, blah, blah, blah) he could specify. Or something like that, I donāt recall that much. So my supervisor (best practical engineer I ever met) suggested a very simple analog motor using 8" pipe that we could fab in our backyard shed machine shop. No problem.
Dude showed up, and first test, there were indications (pressure data and you could actually hear the sound of the motor pulsing and see the plume intensity vary) our customerās idea was right. He was ecstatic. Except for one thing. The motor leaked. Bad news, since this somewhat compromised the data and we planned to re-use the hardware. Our āhope this worksā o-ring seal around the not-exactly-round pipe failed.
We needed a quick solution and since I had read a lot about what happened to Challenger, I suggested we just stuff some zinc-chromate putty like that used in the shuttle motors into the joint (idea is the motor pressure pushes this stuff into the joint so that even if there is a leak, the putty flows into the space and seals it). Two issues. One, our supervisor and my technicians didnāt think it would work. Two, the space division stopped using the putty because it contained asbestos or something like that. We found a substitute and I convinced the guys it was worth trying.
All ye of little faith! Of course it worked. Perfectly. Well, almost. The substitute was gummy and made a mess on our hardware that was a bitch to get off between tests. Techs were pissed. They made the night porter engineer whose idea this was do it. Oh well, was worth it for the I told you so opportunities.
Some months later, our supervisor showed us a letter the customer had sent to our VP. It was very complimentary of our effort and ingenuity. Nice gesture. I donāt recall many instances of someone taking the trouble to do that. I kept a copy. So Iām kind of proud of this. Did it generate any extra business? No, and probably a good thing since it didnāt make any money. I donāt know if it did much for our customer either, except maybe some āI told you soā satisfaction of his own.
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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1383897751289688064
@clovis8 Just wondering if there are some circumstances in which kink shaming is appropriate.
Donāt know myself but Marjorie Taylor Greene comes off as the kind of person who is into some crazy, kinky shit. From my experience, people who tout extremist religious views loudly and constantly but behave irreligiously are the most insane in bed.
Donāt see how this is a kink. Better called moron shaming in this case.
It turns out that Bigfoot was a narc:
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I think this is excellent. The trick is condensing it down to one or two sentences that will make them ask for the full story.
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Coolest Batman villain ever.
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