Squorlple
@Squorlple@lemmy.world
I don’t care what people say, the most important historical event in my lifetime was the discovery and release of the lost Steely Dan tape containing The Second Arrangement
- Comment on Beware of BigReddit® 19 minutes ago:
It only took my hopes and life savings
- Comment on When your friend moves to Berlin to become a DJ 18 hours ago:
Is your friend David Bowie? Have we found Brian Eno’s Lemmy account?
- Comment on Tis the season 1 week ago:
It says Virginia right there
- Comment on Good evening I choose food panties. 1 week ago:
- Comment on This weird AI-generated engagement bait 1 week ago:
It’s giving deep sea diver being imploded inside their old timey diving suit
- Comment on Chemistry 1 week ago:
I wish grammar is easy two
- Comment on Life imitates art? 2 weeks ago:
Jesus was a carpenter ant
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
I wish
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
I was thinking more along the lines of “Based on your connection to the Force and your connection to the Jedi Order, what color would your lightsaber be: A. Green B. Blue C. Red. D. Purple” E. None of the above, or “Which Pokémon was based on the Chinese Zodiac animal of your year of birth? A. Swinub B. Rapidash C. Lopunny D. Chimchar E. None of the above”
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 weeks ago:
From what I begrudgingly know about astrology, “Does not apply” would only pertain to people who haven’t been born yet or who were born outside of the solar system. Knowing if “None of the above” applies still requires knowledge of how the arbitrary categories correspond with the calendar.
- I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government formlemmy.world ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 80 comments
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
That comment was an explanation of layered figurative language. It was given artistic flourish to convey the emotion and situation in experienced subjective depth rather than the objective and literal point of view of an outsider. I am more succinct and linear in settings for which I have to communicate professionally.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. My natural verbiage is commonly mistaken for an LLM, whether that would be a good thing or a bad thing for that approach.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll check it out, thanks. A resume reviewer had sent me an ATS scan but it was behind a paywall.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
There is a dissonance between the echelons of positions. The employers for the lower jobs see your degree and wonder what’s wrong with you for you not to be in a higher position. The employers for the higher positions skim past the degree and don’t care about you unless you already have several years experience in the position.
I may sell myself short because I need income and none of the big fish show any sign of biting.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
first step towards depression
Buddy, I’m the Harry Potter living under the depression staircase.
Thanks for the advice though (Thanks for everyone else in this thread as well btw)
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
A county clerk does the sort of stuff that a Wikipedia nerd is best equipped to do.
He’s not me; I moved to this district this summer and came across his public accounts while researching the candidates new to me on my ballot this year. And I’ve already comfortably made the move to Lemmy.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
Rules vary from state to state. I just double checked my state’s .gov site and it verified what I had said before. I can try to see if they’ll accept it late but the fine text doesn’t look like they would.
I wouldn’t be surprised if at least some of your expectation that you’ll be rejected is coming through in interviews.
The thing is that I have to get to the interview stage first; for 99% of this process, it’s just been typed words with no direct interaction with a human person. For the one in-person I’ve had, I probably did show some discomfort because I was caught by surprise having to wear earplugs for a facility tour and they’d be required for the job but I have a medical condition that makes earplugs difficult and painful for one ear. I don’t believe a lack of confidence was conveyed in the phone interviews (apart from one really weird and unexpected AI voice interview), and I believe I came across confident for the one video call interview which was for a job I had only heard of a half hour prior.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
Who knows, maybe you become the first Lemming to become elected to office
My recently re-elected county clerk is an active Wikipedia editor and Redditor; I wouldn’t be surprised if he has also partially migrated to Lemmy.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, once you’ve been stuck in it for so long everywhere, you don’t know how the few people whom you find judicious and honest and whose general input you respect and appreciate can also somehow be sane and in-touch if they are the anomalies who think the same of you. You question if praise and affirmation from them is just an overly polite way of hiding pity and disdain. Even if their analysis says all is good, does that really mean all is good? That’s why I described it as magical, because it’s internally contradictory and independent of social setting. Since I can’t even get to the interview stage, then the text of the resume as approved by others becomes a conduit for the aura to affect the potential employers simply because the resume is mine. That’s the conceit I mean when I say it’s like magic.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
I thought lying was a requirement for a cabinet position /s
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
USA. End goal of work is engineering or design but I’ll settle for factory or shop floor work or something in between if it pays the bills for the time being.
The equivalent to Job Seekers Allowance for me is Unemployment Benefits, with rules varying from state to state. Copied from another comment of mine: “[T]he state deadline to [apply] was by the Friday after losing the job, and buried in the fine text is a line mentioning that certain info has to be submitted at least a day prior to that Friday. I didn’t have required information for the bureaucracy at that time and I really didn’t expect the process to take so long or to be so absurd.” In other words, that ship has sailed.
Lower paying jobs tend to think I’m overqualified so they expect to lose me to higher paying job and don’t want to waste training on me. This is something I also experienced before my previous job, which only hired me because they had plans for me to later advance in their company and utilize my qualifications but this never came to fruition.
I’m locked in a lease that is really cheap for the region and with lots of great amenities and is in the vicinity of multiple industrial centers. I could pay a chunk of change to break the lease I have nobody whom I could ask to help me move. For my minimum pay ask, I don’t want the commute to be more than 30 minutes, especially with the winter weather coming; if the pay is substantially more than my minimum ask, then I’d accept a longer commute.
My constants for monthly expenses are rent and internet/cell plan, and electricity and natural gas are both roughly constant and are provided some leeway with the winter cold coming. Factoring these values in with how much of my wage would be deducted to taxes and benefits, this is how I arrived at what I would need in income monthly to pay for groceries, gasoline, and misc. essentials.
- Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 3 weeks ago:
I believe the state deadline to do that was by the Friday after losing the job, and buried in the fine text is a line mentioning that certain info has to be submitted at least a day prior to that Friday. I didn’t have required information for the bureaucracy at that time and I really didn’t expect the process to take so long or to be so absurd.
I’ve been familiar with the Sisyphean routine of offering myself to other parties only to be met with sharp rejection each and every time since before I entered the job market.
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- Comment on BLASTing 3 weeks ago:
My guess is this meme was taken from some social media site that suppresses non-advertiser friendly content so anything that isn’t totally milquetoast on a facile level is censored, ex. “crap” would become “cr*p”
- Comment on Welcome to Big-D 3 weeks ago:
There’s a place and time for that type of commentary. Cynicism on this post should be focused the advertiser and algorithms.
- Comment on Welcome to Big-D 3 weeks ago:
Everything is bigger in Texas. The whales are just so astronomically huge there that you haven’t been able to identify them as whales yet. Keep a lookout for anything a mile and a half in diameter and five miles long that’s making whale noises and alert your nearest Starfleet base.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
Lefthandedness increases your probability of becoming a U.S. president
- Comment on Thank you for your service 3 weeks ago:
Yo where’s my Joe Bi Dom at?
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
Oral surgeons beg to differ
