The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

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[Josquius]

I am very good at remembering stories.  I know the backstories of all the primarchs inside out. Same shit.

Ok, but who is your favorite(s)? I'm a Vulkan, Mortarion, and Lorgar girl myself. 

Lorgar is an interesting story, but without a doubt the worst and most hate worthy what with being a religious fanatic who decides to find a new religion to be fanatical about and being the one responsible for all the grim dark.

Mortarion... Curious backstory and weird how he then becomes what he hated. Maybe the second worst Emperor is a bad dad moment here?

Vulkan is great. Probably the "best" primarch, the one a regular person is most likely to survive a meeting with as well as being the strongest.
Its a shame the Salamanders (and the Raven Guard) are so underrepresented generally. They've always been on the list but never in the lime light.
Which in a way represents something I do like about 40k, how it organically evolved from something ramshackle put together on the back of a napkin in the 80s.
He's probably on my list.

Others I like....

Alpharius/Omegon are interesting though too unexplored, even as much as mystery is the point there.

Fulgrim is interesting too. Fully chaos yet fighting against it and really torn. And purple is good.

Guilliman despite being so generic and overly MC'ed is also sort of my guy as my main 40k army are Smurfs (unintentionally. I bought a tonne second hand).

[Savonarola]

One of the local colleges here has a sign which states that they are "Nationally ranked for social mobility."  I read that and though, "Yes, but in which direction?"

Keiser University - You're just going to end up in the gutter anyway so you might as well go here.

[Razgovory]

John Oliver on AI slop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

[Josquius]

With the world being so depressing I need to find a nice news source.
Something that covers interesting stuff in the world without being all about  politics and doom and everything.
I want to know what's happening in the world... But not to feel awful.

[DGuller]

John Oliver on AI slop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc

On the bright side, maybe AI would destroy trust on the Internet so thoroughly that people would go back to communicating with people they know well.

[Oexmelin]

I fear it's not just trust in the Internet. Our societies rely on trusting strangers.

[DGuller]

I fear it's not just trust in the Internet. Our societies rely on trusting strangers.

We can still trust strangers in the physical world, at least until they invent holograms.

[Admiral Yi]

With the world being so depressing I need to find a nice news source.
Something that covers interesting stuff in the world without being all about  politics and doom and everything.
I want to know what's happening in the world... But not to feel awful.

Most newspapers have arts and leisure sections. 

[Razgovory]

Okay, so the job search isn't going that well.  I'm using indeed to search for jobs, and sending out a resume, but I need to write something about why I have a quarter century gap in my employment history.  I don't think posting on Languish is good excuse and I already tried the old imprisoned-inside-a-cosmic-egg thing.

[Zanza]

Fake it till you make it?

[Tamas]

Okay, so the job search isn't going that well.  I'm using indeed to search for jobs, and sending out a resume, but I need to write something about why I have a quarter century gap in my employment history.  I don't think posting on Languish is good excuse and I already tried the old imprisoned-inside-a-cosmic-egg thing.

Zanza has a point. Don't lie but embellish whatever work or study/training-like thing you were doing during that period, to fill as much as the blank as you can.

Otherwise, for the rest of it, find a better way to allude to this on the CV but if you get an interview say that you were taking care of your father/mother while also dealing with some health problems yourself. Now those having been resolved/under control you are ready to rejoin the workforce.

Also mention (again easier in conversation than on paper) that even through the nonworking times you remained active socially by engaging in your hobbies and interests (beware though they will ask for an example, this you can embellish/lie).

Also: don't be shy to ask for the low end of the salary range, say you realise that coming back to the work pool you need to prove yourself, and that's what you are hoping to do, get the job and earn a long term position and hopefully a raise in responsibilities and salary.

Don't be discouraged if your first impression of the description is that you could do it but then they demand a list of fancy skills and experience, a lot of those are for the ideal candidate and companies can seldom able or willing to afford those when it comes down to it.

I have got my foot in at my current company after trying at various places for something like 3 years (working at my old place still, though). I got the initial job with them because they could only afford a shitty salary for the nature of work they advertised and I was desperate and nobody with more experience was. I have kept increasing my salary since and got a couple of promotions as well.

Indeed sucks by the way.

[Admiral Yi]

Okay, so the job search isn't going that well.  I'm using indeed to search for jobs, and sending out a resume, but I need to write something about why I have a quarter century gap in my employment history.  I don't think posting on Languish is good excuse and I already tried the old imprisoned-inside-a-cosmic-egg thing.

Have you applied at grocery stores?  Around here the collecting carts job seems to go to people with disabilities.

[crazy canuck]

Also, look for organizations/non-profits who promote themselves as hiring people with disabilities/disadvantages. Those sorts of employers might even pay for/provide training for you.

edit, I see Yi has the same idea.

[Tamas]

Also, look for organizations/non-profits who promote themselves as hiring people with disabilities/disadvantages. Those sorts of employers might even pay for/provide training for you.

edit, I see Yi has the same idea.

Good idea. Doesn't matter what you are getting as long as something enters your cv