Random Thoughts Thread

**Fragony** · 03-24-2018, 09:13

Real heroism, it exists, RIP https://twitter.com/gerardcollomb/st...site=geenstijl Gave his live but saved plenty

**Montmorency** · 04-05-2018, 23:50

For almost about 2 years now I've been receiving sporadic work or personal-related emails related to a gas/oil extraction company. Since some of these are forwards on personal (and personnel) matters, I assume I have an email address similar to someone on their payrolls or mailing lists. I've emailed them a couple of times over the years to inform them of the mistake, but it doesn't appear to have registered. I don't even bother deleting their emails anymore.

Isn't this just poor IT standards, though? I have a gmail domain! Everyone else CCed in these emails has a company domain! Does no one notice this?

**Fragony** · 04-10-2018, 16:32

My ancient laptop finally died, kinda killed it. Got me a Chromebook for only 160 euro it works great. Buttons feel a bit loose but otherwise great stuff

**Viking** · 04-11-2018, 21:56

I need a lava machine.

**Montmorency** · 04-12-2018, 00:27

I'm going to eat Poptarts for the first time since 2009!

**Hooahguy** · 04-16-2018, 00:23

Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 04-16-2018, 13:21

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.

Of course it is LESS stressful but certainly not un-stressful. As I teach all of my speech students, you are supposed to experience some measure of stress/nervousness (it is your body's way of kicking you into a higher gear of performance). If you aren't feeling a little stressed or nervous it means you have stopped caring about the "audience" at all -- not a healthy sign.

**Beskar** · 04-16-2018, 19:24

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.

I always understood it this way:

The actual act of doing the search and applying is not easier, it is more that currently working makes you more employable, thus it is easier to get the job whilst working opposed to being out of work. If you are in a job and searching, it is a signal that you are a productive member who wants to improve and give more than what you are currently constrained to do by your job. So this is a sign to your potential new employer that you are a hard-worker. If you are out of work for lets say a year, they are looking at this and going "So.. why aren't they in a job? Are they not that good? Why won't people employ them, do I want that risk?".

I found this to be the case with myself and my friends in different phases/situations of employment. I had one friend who was begging for work, they were even working free for a charity for 'experience' (more that they were running the outlet as unpaid manager) and they were kept being turned down repeatedly. They were begging for 2 years with all sorts of excuses or lack of responses from companies. Finally, some one else who volunteered at the charity had an family member who was looking for new employees in a basic job. He effectively got a shoe in because the niece said how hard he works, etc. Within 2 years, he was in a senior management position within that company, and people have sent him job offers trying to poach him!

I guess the moral of his story is also "Networking is good" and "Take an opportunity when you see it".