But the stuff you want to show off is stuff that IS relevant to your job duties.
Yes. All I'm saying is that the ability to show stuff off may be missing entirely, while you excel at your more strictly job-related tasks.
I see tech people interviewed by non-tech people way too often and some very strange decisions reached. Either they prefer the nerdy ones because tech people are nerdy or they don't like the nerdy ones because they won't talk, when all they need is someone who sleeps, eats, and breathes OSI levels.
A while back I posted a link to an article about women active in the pro-life movement who have secret abortions themselves and yet continue to actively work to ban abortion. It was called "The Only Moral Abortion Is My Abortion" and was an infuriating look at hypocrisy.
Today I stumbled across the article again, or maybe a longer version of it. Part of the article was more hopeful - this letter really touched me.
Some anti-choice women who have abortions do make peace with their decision and even become pro-choice, or at least more forgiving of other women seeking abortions. A Louisiana patient who was anti-choice before her abortion, wrote a warm and grateful thank-you letter to the clinic, admitting that she had been a hypocrite:
"I never dreamed, in my wildest nightmares, that there would ever be a situation where I personally would choose such an act. Of course, we would each like to think that our reasons for a termination are the exception to the rule. But the bottom line is that you people spend your lives, reputations, careers and energy fighting for, maintaining, and providing an option that I needed, while I spent my energy lambasting you. Yet you still allowed me to make use of your services even though I had been one of your enemies. You treated us as kindly and warmly as you did all of your patients and never once pointed an 'I told you so' finger in our direction. I got the impression that you cared equally about each woman in the facility and what each woman was going through, regardless of her reasons for choosing the procedure. I have never met a group of purely non-judgmental people like yourselves."
My sister Shirley did two rounds of IVF and then got pregnant on her own -- can you IMAGINE, twenty grand down the tubes!
Literally.
I have always answered the goals question with some variation on wanting to learn new things and have increasing responsibility. I was once in an interview in which the interviewer asked about 10 questions clearly designed to find out facts about me that you're not allowed to ask for. I finally just said, "Let's get this out of the way. I'm x years old. I'm divorced. I have no children."
Pencilwood gets stuck in your teeth, hon, so don't eat those.
I don't know how you teachers do it. I'm just coaxing a student along one hour a night. Oy. When she needs to be literal, she's abstract. When she needs to think abstractly, she's literal. We do a lot of discussing stuff. I hope I'm not confusing the hell out of her.
I can fit the pita chips in this slot here. Does the hummus go in through the vents on top?
Oh good grief. Peeling a bandaid off? Bruised my skin. Not badly, but ...good grief.
I got another fan letter!
How much do I love that? THIIIIIIIIII...(hours later)...IIIIS MUCH!
Well deserved.
Yay fan letters!
Don't feel too bad sarameg. I get bruises just from looking at myself funny.
