Though I'd change this part slightly to say that it isn't a bad thing to encourage children to try something again a few years later. For me, the age was about 11 or 12.
We were always "one bite per year of age" i.e. you had to have a little. (I vividly remember my sister counting peas and my Mother laughing "just TRY it, Sarah.")
My Father's family was strictly "everything on your plate and if you don't finish it goes in the fridge for breakfast. And then lunch. And then tomorrow's dinner..." but that had a lot to do with the practicality and finances of feeding eight children. By the time they had Grandchildren they had mellowed considerably.
Strega, I definitely think your friend needs to write cover letters. I've gotten jobs based on cover letters, so they can't be a total waste of time. And he should widen his range, check the newspaper, and the Raleigh/Durham section of Craigslist.
Job hunting always makes me horribly depressed, especially when I am unemployed and living off savings. But he definitely deserves a virtual bop on the head if he isn't sending out cover letters and resumes every day, and making phone calls.
I think almost all of his applications have been done online, so he's just filling in forms and attaching a resume file. If nothing else a short cover letter could explain his moving down there; I don't know if the fact that all of his references are out-of-state is weighing against him.
especially if some aren't writing them for whatever reason.
Yeah. I'm sure some employers ignore them, but I can't imagine it'd hurt to include one. (Well, maybe if it was written in crayon.)
Jars I suggest zucchini bread - or, slightly more seriously, adding things like chopped spinach to spaghetti sauce - so you can't really taste it.
Thanks! But I actually cook a lot of vegetables. DH loves green veggies, so I just cook them up in buttery creamy sauces so I can't taste them, or just grin and bear it.
I've found cooking stuff into soups helps a lot. Like, I really hate brocolli, but a brocolli and cheese soup I can totally do.
I don't wanna educate myself on the candidates and go search for my polling place in a snowstorm. Stupid democratic process, no paczki.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that weather is a reason why the Illinois primary is usually NOT in early February.
ooh! I wonder if there's still a Polish bakery nearby where I could get paczi? (This used to be a very Polish neighborhood.)
I've cast what I'm sure will be the deciding vote in super Tuesday.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that weather is a reason why the Illinois primary is usually NOT in early February.
We're supposed to get sleet and some ridiculous amount of snow -- 8 to 12 inches, I think -- and I
think
the polling place is just around the block, but it's not where it was last time, and...
Should've voted early and often in the grand Chicago tradition, damn it.
Also, it's hard to know the path your job application will take in a particular company, especially if it's a large compan. Maybe it would go to an HR department first and the HR people would only pass on resumes if accompanied by a well-written cover letter? You just don't know.
Reality is, even if they barely read them, cover letters are one of those things that help overwhelmed hiring managers weed out their pile. When we were hiring a new minion for Minion, once the pile of resumes got to be unmanageable, anything without a cover letter got immediately axed. Part of making it through the job hunt is offense: demonstrating your strengths and grabbing their attention. Part of it is playing D:
not
doing the things that make you an easy out.
