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Wow... So you are expected to feel ghosted/rejected 100 times a week, and upwards to 1500 in total? I wonder how healthy that must be for your psyche...
We didn't have psyches back in the day. Just a can-do attitude and strong values.
And a bottle of alcohol too many here and there. And hobbies such as beating your wife black and blue in front of your kids. And fatal accidents from speeding around in our souped up cars.
Just none of that psyche shit, okay?
SLASH S.
Missing to hear about your bootstraps??? Did you pull them up at all??? I need to know!!!
Of course, everyone did it back then...
Though quite a few got it all wrong and ended up with a form of bootstrap tightly around their neck and hanging from a joist in the garage.
Or they accidentally fell off high buildings due to pulling their bootstraps up while on a roof.
Or they accidentally lassoed a bottle of vodka in to their mouths with the bootstraps, drank themselves in to a stupor, and then accidentally went driving and crashed.
BUT THERE WAS NONE OF THAT THE PSYCHE SHIT. Right, I'm off to do some wholesome beating of my wife and kids.
That "SLASH S" gives me Roy Kent's "WHISTLE!" vibes.
And sometimes people had accidents cleaning their guns. With their mouths. But that’s just the cost of bearing arms, no mental health problems
I mean, it was normal getting a bit beaten up a kid for doing dumb stuff. It builds character! That's why everyone ended up so funcional as adults, no? .... No?
I went thru several months of it. Even with my anxiety meds, it felt like I was losing my mind.
Try multiple different periods of years of it... :/
Sucks, man. (got something now, though)
And people like that boss doesn't even realize he's celebrating his own inefficiency and incompetence when declaring they'll go through that many applications without hiring somebody. Why do you want to be bad at finding talent and why do you want people to know you can't recognize skill?
They're probably not going through that many applications, they'll be using a screening company or system that's dropping every applucation that doesn't have whatever the magical combination of keywords is in this particular case. I can only imagine it's git even worse with the use if LLMs for screening.
Sounds super rough... Really hope things worked out in the end and you're all better now!
Thanks! Things improved but aren't good. Just less bad
Thing is its limited by geography. If I can't physically get to the job in under 30mins, then I can't get to the job on time, ever. Don't have kids, folks, unless you really actually want them. Don't just do it because you're 'at that stage in life'
Mate I’ve done jobs that have had a 1.5hr commute before. What are you talking about?
That is your prerogative, but it is not a wise one.
I understand, but if you have to put food on the table, then that’s what you have to do.
Congrats, but did you know that other people have problems that you don't? And that just because you can do something doesn't mean others can do it too?
We all have our problems in life, and you overcoming yours is meaningless to other people overcoming theirs.
But good job volunteering that your time is so worthless you're willing to waste 3 hours of it on a commute. The only time I've ever driven more than 45 min for a job was to a client site, and I was getting paid and the commute was part of my 8hrs.
The person I replied to was implying they can’t commute longer than 30 mins because they have kids.
In a thread about finding jobs.
There’s a shedload of people including me for whom narrowing their job prospects down to only jobs within 30mins commute would be wishful thinking, and borderline ridiculous.
My ‘mate what are you talking about’ was based on my perspective yes, but there’s large swathes of people who would laugh at your privilege.
Nice for you I suppose. And nice of you to be so self-righteously hostile too.
Clearly he's talking about the constraints that kids put on his time.
I also have kids.
Seems more practical to me to just sleep at the office.
Kids have to get to and from school
Oh fair enough if you’re ferrying them.
So the 30mins is essentially from latest drop off, to acceptable show up time at work then.
Exactly. My last job was great - had a 9:15 start which was more or less the perfect time when bussing in
Understood. It’s going to get a lot easier then when they can make their own way in.
A real # is probably 25 a week, which IMO is still quite brutal on mental health.
In case anyone would like a reminder, this is a market failure and doesn't reflect on you personally whatsoever.