Dear Shrift,
You are too qualified. Would your current workplace be in a world of hurt were you to up and leave? I think so. SO you are qualified and valuable. When you don't believe that, a piece of porn gets burned and dies.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Dec 29, 2005 3:05:41 pm PST #5984 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
§ ita § - Dec 29, 2005 3:10:55 pm PST #5985 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It would be great if you could submit the screams of panic of your current employers at your imminent departure when you applied for your next jobs.
shrift - Dec 29, 2005 3:13:19 pm PST #5986 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
That sounded all boasty, didn't I?
Not to me. I wish I had your professional self-confidence.
Would your current workplace be in a world of hurt were you to up and leave?
Well, right now, yeah. But part of that is because I am a department of one.
When you don't believe that, a piece of porn gets burned and dies.
The bad porn or the good porn?
bon bon - Dec 29, 2005 3:13:49 pm PST #5987 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
You guys, I have a non-date question. Bob is having philosophy people over tonight (the convention is in town) and we bought a prepared batch of buffalo wings at the store. The wings were refrigerated. Am I supposed to heat them, and if so, how? The container isn't helpful.
Jesse - Dec 29, 2005 3:15:08 pm PST #5988 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'd put them in a hot oven (400?) for like 10 minutes. Hot is better.
msbelle - Dec 29, 2005 3:20:17 pm PST #5989 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse is wise with the ways of the wings.
shrift I see what you are doing... porn that you would appreciate will be burned, that is the only way it makes sense.
msbelle - Dec 29, 2005 3:29:22 pm PST #5990 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
FYI, The Jackhole awards are up for voting: [link]
shrift - Dec 29, 2005 3:29:31 pm PST #5991 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Curses! Then for the sake of porn, msbelle, I shall try to place more value on my professional skills.
Although I may have just implied that I'm a pro.
Jesse - Dec 29, 2005 3:33:53 pm PST #5992 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
shrift, this might sound really stupid, but a thing the career lady at my school does is make us make a list of PARS -- I'm pretty sure it's Problem, Action, Result, Skill. So you think about specific things you've done and what skills they show. (I'm pretty sure the "problem" can also just be an opportunity.) Having to think of a lot of them (she wants 20) is really helpful, because even when you think you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, it helps to be really concrete about your skills. In the workshop I was in, there were people who had little or no work experience, and they could still come up with things that deomonstrated skills. And that's what you really need to have on tap to feel comfortable in a job interview.
sarameg - Dec 29, 2005 3:44:49 pm PST #5993 of 10002
See, I'm ok with the concept of job interviews (had more of them than dates, but still not a lot) because for them, it's ok to act. Ok, shouldn't act like you know what you do not, but in some ways it is a role. A spill-your-skillset role, but still. Being a professional whatever is a role to me. I'm going to try not to do that with people I'm trying to build some kind of personal relationship with. Stakes are higher, I guess.
That said, many of my funny holy-hell-how-did-I-end-up-here situations have been initiated by me consciously putting on an act at the getgo. But they were going nowhere anyway.