To the topic poster: Basically, don't sell yourself out to 'fit in.' You'll only alienate those people you're trying to impress. Especially after you've 'tricked them' into thinking you're into topics you're really not. They'll not trust you or label you as fake.
Of course if you're an executive, being fake is a GOOD thing.
Actually, the first step I'd recommend for a girl is to figure out what she wants.
Seriously. When most people give advice, they tend to tell the other person what would benefit themselves, rather than what would benefit the advice giver.
Hence the advice "Be yourself." Nobody wants to be lied to, whether that's a good strategy or not.
One of the reasons that they do drug testing is to debase applicants and get them in a supplicating state of mind. They want you to think that they're doing you a favor by hiring you, so they make you go through the humiliation of pissing in front of a stranger.
Networking with people, having friends in the industry who can tell you when a job opens up - that works best.
I think the reason that online job searches don't work is because applying for a job online is way too easy. This means tons more people do it. The result is that for any job posted, the company can get hundreds of applications.
Here's something that neither of these companies want you to know:
Searching for a job online has the LOWEST success rate of all job search techniques, save for not looking for a job at all. Using the want-ads from the newspaper has a success rate three times higher than using online job search tools.
I challenge you to find one materialistic thing that it was okay for a child not to have 90 years ago but is considered child abuse if they don't have it 10 years ago?
Access to a shower and/or bath?
Many many people did not 90 years ago, but it's a prerequisite to living in society today, for the most part.
I believe it is because employees want it that way, as it provides more stability.
For instance, in the distant past (meaning around a century ago), people were paid by output - for instance in a textile factory, you get paid for however many yards of cloth or whatever you put out.
So what happens when the loom you're working at that the company assigns to you breaks? What if the company can't get anyone in to fix it for a few hours? There goes your paycheck for the rest of the day, due to circumstances over which you have no control.
So, you're saying that every single person given Internet access downloaded tons of porn, and not just one person who would have been a problem anyway.
One problem with PV cells is that you need a grid tie-in inverter in order to use both solar and grid power (important for powering your home at night), and they're easily $2000, sometimes a good bit more. Without one of those, you'd just need a battery setup, and that's going to be pretty expensive as well (not to mention toxic and hard to maintain).
We'd need some sort of subsidy to get average homeowners and businesses to slap PV cells on their roofs in any significant quantity, and several states do not have them.
Yes, the CWT people. I was wondering when someone would mention this.
Even if it turns out that sewage contains too much water for the system to be power itself, it'd most likely still be worth doing simply as a sewage treatment system.
Or indeed any type of recycling system, for specialized purposes. Eventually we're going to need to start mining our landfills, and anything that can break that stuff apart relatively easily will be useful.
Or conversely, America, a first-world country where many of us don't believe that any job is worth putting serious effort and time into and no one has any pride in the work they do any more because their material toys have become the end all and be all of existance.
Or, because we see that hard work is often not rewarded, and people are laid off for reasons that have nothing to do with how much they put into the job.
You can only get ripped off by companies so much before you start doing the minimum necessary to keep the job.
If being an unctuous manipulator is a more important skill to get employed than your actual skills related to the job in question, I'd rather end up homeless the rest of my life.
Technically I didn't say he invented the term, though I wasn't aware of its history.
Still, the reason we're talking about "weapons of mass destruction" instead of chemical weapons is because nuclear weapons are included in the former, even though Iraq had none.
Even the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction" is a clever ploy by Rove to equate biological and chemical weapons with nuclear weapons, when their destructive capability vastly differs. And it appears we've all swallowed that hook, line and sinker.
Funny, I must be a freak, because in a few games, I DO have difficulty being evil.
For instance, in Knights of the Old Republic, I played through the game as light side, then went back and did the dark side path. I only managed to get through Taris
*spoiler spoiler spoiler, you've been warned*
because I already knew they were all going to be killed anyway shortly afterwards.
Similarly, I had problems with Fable, though I found it easy enough to go around killing the randomly spawned people you encounter on the roads, because
A) They all look identical, so it's hard to see them as individuals, and
B) You KNOW that they don't have a family or anything like that - they were created when you arrived, and they'll disappear when you're gone.
The problem with profiling is not just that it's wrong or not "PC," but that it doesn't work. Remember, the terrorists aren't dummies. If the authorities start pulling every Arab off of every plane, the terrorists groups will soon get wise to that. They will search their ranks for the least Arab looking members or recruit radicalized westerners. Narrowing the focus of your search just gives your target a chance to adapt.
Or they'll find someone else who will be on the same flight and slip whatever they need to into their bags, without their knowledge. No polygraph would catch that.
Meh, the whole fast seduction community is essentially nerds who have applied their intelligence towards getting women, resulting in a highly structured method that actually seems to work a good deal of the time.
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Please see "When Harry Met Sally". Harry explains why men and women cannot be friends, and it's even fairly accurate.
Hence the advice "Be yourself." Nobody wants to be lied to, whether that's a good strategy or not.
One of the reasons that they do drug testing is to debase applicants and get them in a supplicating state of mind. They want you to think that they're doing you a favor by hiring you, so they make you go through the humiliation of pissing in front of a stranger.
Networking with people, having friends in the industry who can tell you when a job opens up - that works best.
I think the reason that online job searches don't work is because applying for a job online is way too easy. This means tons more people do it. The result is that for any job posted, the company can get hundreds of applications.
Here's something that neither of these companies want you to know:
Searching for a job online has the LOWEST success rate of all job search techniques, save for not looking for a job at all. Using the want-ads from the newspaper has a success rate three times higher than using online job search tools.
The most successful, of course, is nepotism.
Which is exactly why they lie to you about it.
Many many people did not 90 years ago, but it's a prerequisite to living in society today, for the most part.
I believe it is because employees want it that way, as it provides more stability.
For instance, in the distant past (meaning around a century ago), people were paid by output - for instance in a textile factory, you get paid for however many yards of cloth or whatever you put out.
So what happens when the loom you're working at that the company assigns to you breaks? What if the company can't get anyone in to fix it for a few hours? There goes your paycheck for the rest of the day, due to circumstances over which you have no control.
Hence, the hourly wage.
So, you're saying that every single person given Internet access downloaded tons of porn, and not just one person who would have been a problem anyway.
Actually, they were looking for earth when Mr.-I-See-Robotic-People fucked everything up. Earth is still out there, apparently.
Apparently they can communicate across the galaxy instantaneously, so why not?
One problem with PV cells is that you need a grid tie-in inverter in order to use both solar and grid power (important for powering your home at night), and they're easily $2000, sometimes a good bit more. Without one of those, you'd just need a battery setup, and that's going to be pretty expensive as well (not to mention toxic and hard to maintain).
We'd need some sort of subsidy to get average homeowners and businesses to slap PV cells on their roofs in any significant quantity, and several states do not have them.
Or indeed any type of recycling system, for specialized purposes. Eventually we're going to need to start mining our landfills, and anything that can break that stuff apart relatively easily will be useful.
You can only get ripped off by companies so much before you start doing the minimum necessary to keep the job.
What, you think the elites, the richest people in the world want competition?
Compulsory education was designed to create factory workers, not leaders.
Technically I didn't say he invented the term, though I wasn't aware of its history.
Still, the reason we're talking about "weapons of mass destruction" instead of chemical weapons is because nuclear weapons are included in the former, even though Iraq had none.
Even the phrase "Weapons of Mass Destruction" is a clever ploy by Rove to equate biological and chemical weapons with nuclear weapons, when their destructive capability vastly differs. And it appears we've all swallowed that hook, line and sinker.
Funny, I must be a freak, because in a few games, I DO have difficulty being evil.
For instance, in Knights of the Old Republic, I played through the game as light side, then went back and did the dark side path. I only managed to get through Taris
*spoiler spoiler spoiler, you've been warned*
because I already knew they were all going to be killed anyway shortly afterwards.
Similarly, I had problems with Fable, though I found it easy enough to go around killing the randomly spawned people you encounter on the roads, because
A) They all look identical, so it's hard to see them as individuals, and
B) You KNOW that they don't have a family or anything like that - they were created when you arrived, and they'll disappear when you're gone.
So yeah, I'm a freak.
Meh, the whole fast seduction community is essentially nerds who have applied their intelligence towards getting women, resulting in a highly structured method that actually seems to work a good deal of the time.
That would be my point - this is not a good thing.
Then air travel between France and the US will become a target, and we'll just keep going through this mess again and again.