Paying to have his fecalities "published" in some poor sod's anthology is no great achievement.
I've never paid to have a short story appear in anthology, but I've been compensated with payment and/or book copies for having a short story appear in an anthology.
Go ahead Shakespeare, and-tell-me what-you-think-about-it.
You mean the Shakespeare who whom the university-educated playwrights looked down upon because of his lack of formal education? The same Shakespeare who was frequently accused of pandering to the groundlings, stealing ideas from other writers, and not even being the author of his own works? The same Shakespeare who became rich not from acting and writing, but from owning the company that he performed in?
Sheesh, that sounds like fun. Did you *actively* try to get yourself on spam lists?
I got 800+ connections (mostly recruiters) in LinkedIn. The daily volume isn't bad. Getting birthday wishes for a month after my birthday is very annoying.
[...] the fact that your "miracle work" hasn't gotten you fired yet (at least, not that you've shared) [...]
The only time I ever got fired was when I worked in construction with my father and punched the boss's grandson in the mouth after trying to assault me with a rebar.
That's a huge amount of time listening to messages and deleting them.
Phone messages on the iPhone are transcribed to text. If it reads like gibberish, then it's a recruiter in a busy office. It only takes me a few minutes to go through 20+ messages and emails, especially since I'm not actively looking for a job. If I was doing an active search, I would get 40 to 60 messages and emails per day.
If you lost 50%, you were in such ridiculously risky investments that you should seek competent professional help from a qualified investment advisor, and stop trying to manage ANY of your investments yourself.
Funny how a stock index can slide 50% downward when the stock market is down 50% and then slide 50% upward when the stock market is up 50%. People who sold their stocks at the bottom got screwed. Those who didn't are doing fine now.
So, gg, creimer - you can declare bankruptcy again 8 years after your previous declaration.
Why? I'll be out of debt in three years, if not sooner.
Maybe then you can blame Trump and his "damn wall" for that one, rather than your own poor decisions and financial choices.
My stock portfolio is now concentrated in dividend-paying stocks and the dividends are reinvested to buy more shares. Since so many of my stocks are trading at historic lows, they're largely immune to the ups and downs of the general stock market and whatever tweet fart made by Trump.
There is no reason to use bit.ly links on slashdot unless you're trying to hide something.
Bit.ly tracks the number of clicks and geographic breakdown for each link. For the three links I've posted: 643 (25% USA), 484 (77% USA) and 140 (75% USA).
Keywords "government job". Civil Service jobs are HARD to get fired from.
I'm a contractor at my government IT job. Contractors can get fired quite easily. One contractor got fired for not disclosing on his background check that he had a murder charge. Several contractors were surprised to learn that they were expected to work and found themselves back on the unemployment line.
Just based on the comments you made yesterday, we can conclude that in the last 10 years, you've been unemployed at least 33% of the time. Assuming that age discrimination is a factor is the kindest interpretation of facts.
1) It's the economy, stupid. 2) How can there be age discrimination when I often get hired over the phone?
No, it's true. You've had a well below average life. You make below average money. Your health is below average. Your writing talent is below average. Your ability to grasp simple concepts is below average. You're terrified of sex. The only thing above average about you is the number of calories you eat daily, and your burgeoning weight.
For 48 years of my life, I've been told by people what I can't do. Good thing I don't listen to these negative people. Otherwise, my life would be truly miserable.
For one thing, the bankruptcy court would just tell you "pay off your debs with all the money you have in the bank."
Except that I didn't have any cash in the bank. The assets that I had in my brokerage, business and retirement accounts fell 50% because of the Great Recession. The value of those assets were significantly less than what I owed and weren't worth the trouble for the trustee to liquidate. All my debts were wiped in Chapter Seven. Once the economy turned around, those assets regained their value.
Like your ebooks, your living space, your financial situation, and your life, you are subpar and well below the average.
I've never had a conventional much less an average life.
But that's not what your job description claims you're responsible for.
Nope. But my trolls get very excited and start humping my legs like a pack of Chihuahuas in heat whenever I mention "IT closest" in a comment. On that note, you can stop humping my leg.
I thought it was weird that he'd post a link to such a famous, easy-to-find story.
I found it weird that Wikipedia didn't mentioned what collection to find the short story. Then again, Arthur C. Clarke is no Ray Bradbury and didn't write that many short stories.
But I worry that taking a help desk or barista job in bad times causes one to become pigeon holed, kind of like how the actors on the sopranos aren't on much else bc they were so type cast.
I was out of work for two years (2009-10) because recruiters saw that I had help desk experience for the last three positions, assumed that I want to continue working help desk, and told me that no help desk jobs were available. Never mind that I wasn't applying for a help desk job. When the economy turned around in 2011, recruiters were eager to overlook my help desk experience since they needed bodies to fill out their positions in a hurry.
You mean the three recruiters who are always showing the same identical job description? I haven't heard from them in years. It's very rare that I get even two recruiters with the same job description these days.
I've been out of the workforce for 9 years taking care of my highly disabled father.
I've helped an older friend (54-years-old) who took care of his dying mother for eight years get back into the workforce. Although he had a few IT support contracts, he transitioned into retail to sell technology products two years ago.
Let's conveniently overlook the fact that I was one out of ~10,000 employees laid off at that time, I had 60 job interviews during the time I was out of work for eight months, I've been in my current government IT job for three years and my contract doesn't expire for another two years.
You're not exactly a hot ticket in the IT industry, creimer
I still get 20+ phone calls and emails from recruiter each day. My manager keeps hinting at a raise and larger Christmas bonus. I may not be the hottest ticket in Silicon Valley but I'm not a wallflower either.
At 35 people already look at you askance, especially if you're not covered in tattoos and ball bearings.
I was 35-years-old when I switched from being a video game tester to IT support. As a lead tester, I got all the old testers because the youngling lead testers didn't know how to respect their elders. Now that I'm 48, I'm youngest among the greybeards that I work with in government IT.
Age discrimination is rampant in tech, it is one of the worst kept secrets around.
I'm 48-years-old and haven't run into it. Then again, I currently have a government IT job and I'm one of the youngest. Most of the greybeards that I work with are in their 60's and 70's.
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Paying to have his fecalities "published" in some poor sod's anthology is no great achievement.
I've never paid to have a short story appear in anthology, but I've been compensated with payment and/or book copies for having a short story appear in an anthology.
Go ahead Shakespeare, and-tell-me what-you-think-about-it.
You mean the Shakespeare who whom the university-educated playwrights looked down upon because of his lack of formal education? The same Shakespeare who was frequently accused of pandering to the groundlings, stealing ideas from other writers, and not even being the author of his own works? The same Shakespeare who became rich not from acting and writing, but from owning the company that he performed in?
cremier is so poor he has to resort to amazon linkbux.
Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them.
So you were heavily in debt to buy these stocks?
Nope. Not sure where you got the idea that I used debt to buy stocks. That's stupid.
Sheesh, that sounds like fun. Did you *actively* try to get yourself on spam lists?
I got 800+ connections (mostly recruiters) in LinkedIn. The daily volume isn't bad. Getting birthday wishes for a month after my birthday is very annoying.
They lack the discipline to pay off their debts and just continue to spend whenever they're not maxed out.
Never mind that I paid off my 24-month loan in 16 months.
Again, you should find some professional guidance, because you're too fucking stupid to understand basic financial practices.
I doubt I'll be able to turn $6K into $30K again like I did when I bought stocks all the way down in the dot com bust.
[...] the fact that your "miracle work" hasn't gotten you fired yet (at least, not that you've shared) [...]
The only time I ever got fired was when I worked in construction with my father and punched the boss's grandson in the mouth after trying to assault me with a rebar.
That's a huge amount of time listening to messages and deleting them.
Phone messages on the iPhone are transcribed to text. If it reads like gibberish, then it's a recruiter in a busy office. It only takes me a few minutes to go through 20+ messages and emails, especially since I'm not actively looking for a job. If I was doing an active search, I would get 40 to 60 messages and emails per day.
If you lost 50%, you were in such ridiculously risky investments that you should seek competent professional help from a qualified investment advisor, and stop trying to manage ANY of your investments yourself.
Funny how a stock index can slide 50% downward when the stock market is down 50% and then slide 50% upward when the stock market is up 50%. People who sold their stocks at the bottom got screwed. Those who didn't are doing fine now.
So, gg, creimer - you can declare bankruptcy again 8 years after your previous declaration.
Why? I'll be out of debt in three years, if not sooner.
Maybe then you can blame Trump and his "damn wall" for that one, rather than your own poor decisions and financial choices.
My stock portfolio is now concentrated in dividend-paying stocks and the dividends are reinvested to buy more shares. Since so many of my stocks are trading at historic lows, they're largely immune to the ups and downs of the general stock market and whatever tweet fart made by Trump.
Title says prove, article says proof. And trolls bitch about my hyphens.
There is no reason to use bit.ly links on slashdot unless you're trying to hide something.
Bit.ly tracks the number of clicks and geographic breakdown for each link. For the three links I've posted: 643 (25% USA), 484 (77% USA) and 140 (75% USA).
Keywords "government job". Civil Service jobs are HARD to get fired from.
I'm a contractor at my government IT job. Contractors can get fired quite easily. One contractor got fired for not disclosing on his background check that he had a murder charge. Several contractors were surprised to learn that they were expected to work and found themselves back on the unemployment line.
Just based on the comments you made yesterday, we can conclude that in the last 10 years, you've been unemployed at least 33% of the time. Assuming that age discrimination is a factor is the kindest interpretation of facts.
1) It's the economy, stupid.
2) How can there be age discrimination when I often get hired over the phone?
Why, what have you done?
Breath.
Have you ever stopped to consider why you are the only commenter on slashdot who has their own trolls?
Check out Hello, Slashdot!, The Original Slashdot F.A.Q. (Circa 2006), and the blog posts that I've written about my nasty little trolls.
No, it's true. You've had a well below average life. You make below average money. Your health is below average. Your writing talent is below average. Your ability to grasp simple concepts is below average. You're terrified of sex. The only thing above average about you is the number of calories you eat daily, and your burgeoning weight.
For 48 years of my life, I've been told by people what I can't do. Good thing I don't listen to these negative people. Otherwise, my life would be truly miserable.
For one thing, the bankruptcy court would just tell you "pay off your debs with all the money you have in the bank."
Except that I didn't have any cash in the bank. The assets that I had in my brokerage, business and retirement accounts fell 50% because of the Great Recession. The value of those assets were significantly less than what I owed and weren't worth the trouble for the trustee to liquidate. All my debts were wiped in Chapter Seven. Once the economy turned around, those assets regained their value.
Like your ebooks, your living space, your financial situation, and your life, you are subpar and well below the average.
I've never had a conventional much less an average life.
But that's not what your job description claims you're responsible for.
Nope. But my trolls get very excited and start humping my legs like a pack of Chihuahuas in heat whenever I mention "IT closest" in a comment. On that note, you can stop humping my leg.
I thought it was weird that he'd post a link to such a famous, easy-to-find story.
I found it weird that Wikipedia didn't mentioned what collection to find the short story. Then again, Arthur C. Clarke is no Ray Bradbury and didn't write that many short stories.
But I worry that taking a help desk or barista job in bad times causes one to become pigeon holed, kind of like how the actors on the sopranos aren't on much else bc they were so type cast.
I was out of work for two years (2009-10) because recruiters saw that I had help desk experience for the last three positions, assumed that I want to continue working help desk, and told me that no help desk jobs were available. Never mind that I wasn't applying for a help desk job. When the economy turned around in 2011, recruiters were eager to overlook my help desk experience since they needed bodies to fill out their positions in a hurry.
Yeah, Pajeet and Samir are calling everyone hun.
You mean the three recruiters who are always showing the same identical job description? I haven't heard from them in years. It's very rare that I get even two recruiters with the same job description these days.
I've been out of the workforce for 9 years taking care of my highly disabled father.
I've helped an older friend (54-years-old) who took care of his dying mother for eight years get back into the workforce. Although he had a few IT support contracts, he transitioned into retail to sell technology products two years ago.
This was your comment ONE DAY AGO: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Let's conveniently overlook the fact that I was one out of ~10,000 employees laid off at that time, I had 60 job interviews during the time I was out of work for eight months, I've been in my current government IT job for three years and my contract doesn't expire for another two years.
You're not exactly a hot ticket in the IT industry, creimer
I still get 20+ phone calls and emails from recruiter each day. My manager keeps hinting at a raise and larger Christmas bonus. I may not be the hottest ticket in Silicon Valley but I'm not a wallflower either.
If you bothered to learn to write, you will notice you can't write.
Don't worry. I just ordered "Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction" by Dinty W. Moore with the coffee money that I earn from monetizing my Slashdot comments. I'll be writing better creative non-fiction comments in no time. :P
At 35 people already look at you askance, especially if you're not covered in tattoos and ball bearings.
I was 35-years-old when I switched from being a video game tester to IT support. As a lead tester, I got all the old testers because the youngling lead testers didn't know how to respect their elders. Now that I'm 48, I'm youngest among the greybeards that I work with in government IT.
Age discrimination is rampant in tech, it is one of the worst kept secrets around.
I'm 48-years-old and haven't run into it. Then again, I currently have a government IT job and I'm one of the youngest. Most of the greybeards that I work with are in their 60's and 70's.