Yup. I'm not sure how you can read this without being irritated. Is this the tech equivalent of a social media influencer?
it was incoherent ramblings! Its my first time writing something thats not technical documentation.
context: my sister was talking to me about feeling stressed about going to college i wrote this with speech to text. I have personally not read it yet. I shared it on twitter this weekend to get some feedback.
For starters, I've never gotten a job via referral, it's always been applying, busting my ass off during interviews and tests, and getting in...
Sorry to say, but it is not. I won't hire a likeable bumbler, and I'd bet he wouldn't either. Merit does matter, but only once one reaches the point where merit can be demonstrated. That point is often not during the interview process, because interviews are very rarely all that much like the actual job one would be interviewing for.
And, nobody should listen to someone who's maybe all of 30 on how to live life, and especially not on how to be a father. Half of what's there isn't actionable; half of the other half reads like one of those "I just bought my first home: here's how I did it," articles that tries to bury the lede and stick the fact that their parents paid the down payment in the middle of so much inconsequential bullshit you'll skip over it.
It's pretty plain this guy has never seen the other side of what his life looks like. As the great Jean Luc Picard said, "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life." For every one of him there are five others out there who committed as many or fewer mistakes as he did, but just lost out to dumb luck. But, it's pretty hard to see that being as far up one's own ass as he appears to be.
The entire post reeks of unwarranted self-importance and posturing and contains equal measure platitudes and balderdash.
He needs to watch the documentary Waging a Living to get some real-life perspectives (this documentary legitimately made me very angry at the "American System") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waging_a_Living and https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/wagingaliving/
Seems like it is available on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXFyLXSBuo&t=6s
The first job I got was because I went to a career fair and had a human connection with a recruiter at a company no one wanted to work at.
She was manning a booth that everyone was passing by because the company had some reputation hit in the news and I talked to her for 30 minutes. I got hired because they had a hiring quota and like 2 applicants.
Every other job I got because of my reputation at previous jobs. I’ve never applied to a job in the traditional way.
Also immigrant. Also grew up frugal AF.
My ratio isn't 100% but being referred or (in older times) called first have probably been the better experiences in my experience.
Well, this is fun.
By taking it as a good faith chat about one person's perspective. I found it enjoyable, though yes there were some inconsistencies, couldn't be more than my own.
this has been a thing for years mon ami, and regularly flogged here on HN.
Yes. They have existed for a while. There are always sheep to herd.