Take the advice of another old fart: Lose the old experience, and don't date anything past the last three jobs, or 7 years, whichever is least. Like you, I used to feel that all of my experience was (or could be) important, since it was broad in scope and domain. However, I found that taking all the old experience, pulling out some keywords, and paraphrasing the rest into short paragraphs made all the difference. When I looked like an old geek, I got nothing from anyone, even when I regularly updated my resume online. Once I removed any indication of my age, I started getting 2-3 phone calls and at least 5 emails per day, wanting me to talk to them. Fortunately by then I had a reasonably good job, and had only updated my resume on a whim, but it shows just how bad the age bias is in the computer HR field.
Hide your age, dye your hair, lose weight, and lie by omission on your resume. They'll lie to you about why they won't hire you, so feel free to "lie" to them about your age.
I went to the store seeing the "online" but read the details of the sake descriptions, which says "Please note, we currently are only able to ship to Texas." Had my hopes up, only to have them dashed. Ah well.
But to try to pretend that the federal government isn't responsible for the interstate system by playing a silly word game is just foolish.
I never said that. What I said was that the ever-increasing Federal Bureaucracy is not necessary for a functioning interstate highway system. The old highways were built and operated without the need for all the three-letter agencies that are now involved (or have involved themselves).
Wrong, there was a system of interstate highways, like Route 66, or Highway 25, the old Dixie Highway, and others. These existed long before the Interstate system. I know, because I was around when the Interstates were being built, many of them along the same or paralleling the routes of the old highways. Highway 11/Interstate 81, Highway 25/Interstate 75, Highway 29/Interstate 66, and dozens more.
Oh, and everyone moderating me as "flamebait" while modding the other flamers as "insightful"? BFD.
Because the Metro buses don't go where I want to go in a timely manner, I can drive to work (Alexandria -> Bailey's Crossroad) in about 15 minutes, whereas taking the bus means approximately 1 hour. 20 minutes from the nearest stop to the Pentagon, wait 20 minutes for the next bus on the other line, then 20 minutes out to Falls Church. Soooo much more convenient.
I made the jump to what we have now, as opposed to what we had before now. The claim that having a Federal Registry of 150,000+ pages of regulations is no different than having a Registry of 50,000 pages, even though if you've ever run a business you can see the effect of the mindless and disincentive explosion of regs that you're subject to. There's a federal regulation to determine how much water your toilet can flush, and of course the regulation that effectively eliminates incandescent light bulbs.
There were 40,000 new regs related to Obamacare that just came out after the election, tell me how much healthier we will all be from them. And from the next 40,000, and the next, and the next.
Nice theory, except that a lot of regulations are passed because Big Corporations know they can get exemptions, or can get their own regs passed which prevent competition from upstart small companies. They are large enough to be able to hire large staffs just to handle the new regs, where small companies have to take effort and labor away from what they do in order to handle the paperwork and compliance efforts.
So, no, Big Corporations love them a Bureaucratic State just as much as you seem to, because they're just the same. The only difference is, you can avoid the BIg Corporations by not purchasing their goods or service, but the Bureaucratic State has force on its side, and you can't get away from its control.
And of course, only the Bureaucratic State is wise enough in its collective knowledge to fix roads. Only unelected bureaucrats with no experience can leverage the combined power of the State to determine not only which roads need to be repaired, but also exactly how much is needed in material, time and labor, and exactly who should be allowed to fix the roads. Ordinary people, and the businesses that use the roads, they're all too stupid and powerless to figure out how to fix the roads, too stupid to figure out who to hire, and how much it would cost, too stupid to do anything that they're not told to do by a Power greater than them, the Power of the State.
Oh, yeah, much better to have unelected bureaucrats determine what the price of gas should be, based upon how they feel when they get in the office that morning.
Of course, it's perfectly fine by you that the Bureaucratic State has now determined that gasoline must now be priced high enough to force people into cities and away from the open country, so that they can be more easily controlled.
Enjoy your future, Citizen. I won't be around for the worst of it, but I'm sure you'll be easily convinced that "things are getting better and better".
Yeah, because obviously if one is against the unrestricted metastasizing growth of the Bureaucratic State, then one must automatically be for the destruction of existing roads.
Funny, I thought the Roman Empire went away millennia ago...
Apparently according to you, we can't do anything without hundreds of thousands of regulations and more government employees than private workers, and a constantly growing Bureaucratic State. You must be part of the Bureaucratic State, or at least dependent upon it for your life.
Good luck dealing with your Benevolent Masters when you finally run afoul of some set of regs that prevent you from doing something you really want to do to pursue your happiness.
Not if the Federal Government has anything to say about it, and they do.
Raising the gasoline tax a lot more, more stringent EPA regulations, OSHA regs to shut down refineries, all manner of things can be used to keep gasoline prices high.
And they will be used, because it's been the stated goal of the Obama Administration and others to keep fossil fuel costs high in order to "persuade" people to switch to alternatives, like mass transit (powered by windmills, no doubt).
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So, if we take from the people that have "too much" and give it all to the potential criminals, they'll decide not to be criminals anymore.
Brilliant. Worked so well for the Romans and the barbarians.
If people didn't have money or things, they wouldn't be robbed.
Take the advice of another old fart: Lose the old experience, and don't date anything past the last three jobs, or 7 years, whichever is least. Like you, I used to feel that all of my experience was (or could be) important, since it was broad in scope and domain. However, I found that taking all the old experience, pulling out some keywords, and paraphrasing the rest into short paragraphs made all the difference. When I looked like an old geek, I got nothing from anyone, even when I regularly updated my resume online. Once I removed any indication of my age, I started getting 2-3 phone calls and at least 5 emails per day, wanting me to talk to them. Fortunately by then I had a reasonably good job, and had only updated my resume on a whim, but it shows just how bad the age bias is in the computer HR field.
Hide your age, dye your hair, lose weight, and lie by omission on your resume. They'll lie to you about why they won't hire you, so feel free to "lie" to them about your age.
HR will always find something when you're actually too old (expensive) in their opinion.
I have to say: Eeeeewww, that's one vaccination method I don't want to even contemplate!
yes, I know it's a typo...
One time with the flu I drank a NyQuil capful of chicken soup and a bowlful of NyQuil. Fun times. The taste, though, the taste still haunts me...
They're not automated yet (skynet) so whoever's driving has to get out to pee or eat sometime...
I went to the store seeing the "online" but read the details of the sake descriptions, which says "Please note, we currently are only able to ship to Texas." Had my hopes up, only to have them dashed. Ah well.
I never said that. What I said was that the ever-increasing Federal Bureaucracy is not necessary for a functioning interstate highway system. The old highways were built and operated without the need for all the three-letter agencies that are now involved (or have involved themselves).
That has to be one of the most illogical if not mindless arguments I've seen on Slashdot. "Interstate highways are not interstate highways."
If they're not interstate highways, then where, pray tell, do they go "inter?"
I've got one here in my portmanteau...
Until the equipment breaks, and they can't fix it or buy new.
Actually a menshevik revolution, which the bolsheviks can take over...
Wrong, there was a system of interstate highways, like Route 66, or Highway 25, the old Dixie Highway, and others. These existed long before the Interstate system. I know, because I was around when the Interstates were being built, many of them along the same or paralleling the routes of the old highways. Highway 11/Interstate 81, Highway 25/Interstate 75, Highway 29/Interstate 66, and dozens more.
Oh, and everyone moderating me as "flamebait" while modding the other flamers as "insightful"? BFD.
Because the Metro buses don't go where I want to go in a timely manner, I can drive to work (Alexandria -> Bailey's Crossroad) in about 15 minutes, whereas taking the bus means approximately 1 hour. 20 minutes from the nearest stop to the Pentagon, wait 20 minutes for the next bus on the other line, then 20 minutes out to Falls Church. Soooo much more convenient.
Not the "whole damn thing", there are far more state and local roads than there are Interstate Highways.
I made the jump to what we have now, as opposed to what we had before now. The claim that having a Federal Registry of 150,000+ pages of regulations is no different than having a Registry of 50,000 pages, even though if you've ever run a business you can see the effect of the mindless and disincentive explosion of regs that you're subject to. There's a federal regulation to determine how much water your toilet can flush, and of course the regulation that effectively eliminates incandescent light bulbs.
There were 40,000 new regs related to Obamacare that just came out after the election, tell me how much healthier we will all be from them. And from the next 40,000, and the next, and the next.
Nice theory, except that a lot of regulations are passed because Big Corporations know they can get exemptions, or can get their own regs passed which prevent competition from upstart small companies. They are large enough to be able to hire large staffs just to handle the new regs, where small companies have to take effort and labor away from what they do in order to handle the paperwork and compliance efforts.
So, no, Big Corporations love them a Bureaucratic State just as much as you seem to, because they're just the same. The only difference is, you can avoid the BIg Corporations by not purchasing their goods or service, but the Bureaucratic State has force on its side, and you can't get away from its control.
And of course, only the Bureaucratic State is wise enough in its collective knowledge to fix roads. Only unelected bureaucrats with no experience can leverage the combined power of the State to determine not only which roads need to be repaired, but also exactly how much is needed in material, time and labor, and exactly who should be allowed to fix the roads. Ordinary people, and the businesses that use the roads, they're all too stupid and powerless to figure out how to fix the roads, too stupid to figure out who to hire, and how much it would cost, too stupid to do anything that they're not told to do by a Power greater than them, the Power of the State.
Oh, yeah, much better to have unelected bureaucrats determine what the price of gas should be, based upon how they feel when they get in the office that morning.
Of course, it's perfectly fine by you that the Bureaucratic State has now determined that gasoline must now be priced high enough to force people into cities and away from the open country, so that they can be more easily controlled.
Enjoy your future, Citizen. I won't be around for the worst of it, but I'm sure you'll be easily convinced that "things are getting better and better".
Yeah, because obviously if one is against the unrestricted metastasizing growth of the Bureaucratic State, then one must automatically be for the destruction of existing roads.
Funny, I thought the Roman Empire went away millennia ago...
Apparently according to you, we can't do anything without hundreds of thousands of regulations and more government employees than private workers, and a constantly growing Bureaucratic State. You must be part of the Bureaucratic State, or at least dependent upon it for your life.
Good luck dealing with your Benevolent Masters when you finally run afoul of some set of regs that prevent you from doing something you really want to do to pursue your happiness.
Not if the Federal Government has anything to say about it, and they do.
Raising the gasoline tax a lot more, more stringent EPA regulations, OSHA regs to shut down refineries, all manner of things can be used to keep gasoline prices high.
And they will be used, because it's been the stated goal of the Obama Administration and others to keep fossil fuel costs high in order to "persuade" people to switch to alternatives, like mass transit (powered by windmills, no doubt).
To people spending Government money, that's a feature, not a bug...
He got it from Bat Boy...