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how do you make ends meet?
#51
RE: how do you make ends meet?
I'm totally going to print this out and pin it up in my cube.

Big Grin

(March 24, 2014 at 7:40 pm)GirlyMan Wrote:

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#52
RE: how do you make ends meet?
Oh, good. Someone else made the decision to quote that post, the content of which is entirely a picture, and put hide tags around the picture. I feel justified in my decision to do the same now. How wonderful that is.
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#53
RE: how do you make ends meet?
(March 24, 2014 at 7:59 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: ... the content of which is entirely a picture ...
And a hyperlink which leads to a site that can teach you to Become a Programmer, Motherfucker. OP asked what I did for a lving. That's what I do.
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#54
RE: how do you make ends meet?
(March 24, 2014 at 8:07 pm)GirlyMan Wrote: And a hyperlink which leads to a site that can teach you to Become a Programmer, Motherfucker. OP asked what I did for a lving. That's what I do.
Okay, I get why you think that is a significantly good thing.
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#55
RE: how do you make ends meet?
(March 24, 2014 at 8:10 pm)futilethewinds Wrote:
(March 24, 2014 at 8:07 pm)GirlyMan Wrote: And a hyperlink which leads to a site that can teach you to Become a Programmer, Motherfucker. OP asked what I did for a lving. That's what I do.
Okay, I get why you think that is a significantly good thing.

meh, the pay is good.
I am like God and God like me.
I am as Large as God, He is as small as I.
He cannot above me, nor I beneath him be. - Angelus Silesius

"From each according to their motherfucking ability bitches and to each according to their goddam need fuckers. Which part of The Word you fuckers don't get?" - Jesus
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#56
RE: how do you make ends meet?
Man, it is possible on the internet for a thing to be a picture and a hyperlink at the same time. That is cool as shit.
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#57
RE: how do you make ends meet?
I'm in IT
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
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#58
RE: how do you make ends meet?
(March 24, 2014 at 8:11 pm)GirlyMan Wrote:
(March 24, 2014 at 8:10 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Okay, I get why you think that is a significantly good thing.

meh, the pay is good.
I meant why you think the fact that it is a hyperlink that will tell you How to Become a Programmer, Motherfucker, is significantly good. Because you yourself, are a programmer.

And yeah, being a programmer pays a fuckload. It is one of the reasons why a person should "become a programmer, motherfucker!"

It is something I once thought might ultimately be my career, but at the time that I was interested and learning how to be a programmer I hit a roadblock, and it was just really damn frustrating. (LOL, I think I was 8 years old.) After that whenever I happened to consider the possibility, I decided it was just not a thing I wanted to do.

Because if I become a programmer, I'm pretty sure I will never go outside again and I'm pretty sure I will interact with humans even less, which sounds GREAT to me, except that I know it is not actually good for my overall well-being. So damn.

However, I maintain an interest in the possibility of being a part of the gaming industry. How I envision this happening is that I would become a tester, and I would be totally content with that, and then it is possible that at some point someone would recognize that I also possess creative writing skills and am just REALLY DAMN GOOD at creative writing, and hire me as a video game writer. And if that thing happened, it would absolutely just MAKE MY LIFE. That is how much I would love to be a video game writer. If the company I was hired to be a video game writer for was Bioware, @*#$!!! I would be like 1000 times happier still.
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#59
RE: how do you make ends meet?
A cover letter can be the difference, for sure. I'll copy one that I sent out. The point is that if there are 100 people applying for an entry level job, only 25 of them are going to have a properly formatted resume. Out of those 25, only 10 are going to include a cover letter. 7 of those 10 are going to be carbon copied from a website, the last 3 will be targeted to the actual job. Be one of those 3.


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#60
RE: how do you make ends meet?
(March 24, 2014 at 8:28 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: A cover letter can be the difference, for sure. I'll copy one that I sent out. The point is that if there are 100 people applying for an entry level job, only 25 of them are going to have a properly formatted resume. Out of those 25, only 10 are going to include a cover letter. 7 of those 10 are going to be carbon copied from a website, the last 3 will be targeted to the actual job. Be one of those 3.


Thank you for this post. I think it is very helpful.
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