What I know about a job is that I’m at work right now and I just spent three hours scrolling through the OG Flame Free thread (while doing some other things) and I hope I don’t end up at a “real” job where I’m actually able to do this ever again. Every other dude here has a salary and I’m 99% sure they’re basically doing the same thing. If I worked at a place that allowed that I would hate it.
That thread was hilarious (thank you, among others, @T3hPwnisher) and felt like more of a community. Some good posters who I don’t see around anymore. Bummer.
Also, someone is playing MacGyver on the TV and he is just as awesome as he was when I was ten.
I was in a teaching position for a while, and my students would ask me about how to be successful when they got out into the “real world”.
I said “If your work wants you to be there by 0700, show up at 0700. You’ll be ahead of 90% of your peer group. If you show up at 0650, you’re now in the top 95%. If you are told to do something by Thursday, do it by Thursday and you will be a rockstar. Do it by Wednesday afternoon and you will be their top performer”
They thought I was being cynical…then, about 6 months later, many would contact me shocked at how accurate that was.
I like the job, but don’t don’t love it, and that’s partly because I work with mostly good, caring people.
I’ve only hated one place of work, and that’s because I worked for an actually psychopathic administrator who I hated, and who would lie, go into fits of rage, yell, pound her fists on desks, browbeat, and encourage false documentation and fraudulent billing. Sometimes at meetings she would pound her fist on the conference table, point and scream at someone, and then repeat those steps for the remaining people there.
I just found something called the Zettelkasten method of note taking while studying. I did lots of mind mapping in school but this like 2x better and when combined with Active Recall it’s mindblowing.
Ok, here’s a confession. I thought nothing absurd would blow my mind after I’ve dealt with my local government employees. Then this gourmet shit appeared:
I can’t even remember who he is and what I signed up for. I think I have most of his emails in my spam folder but some of them slip through the cracks.
As for Zettlekastern, I use Active Recall for the literature notes but I write them in essay form first. Then I turn them into questions.
Like :
How did the guy with the 12inch dick die in The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace by Bruce Dickenson (yes THAT Bruce Dickenson. I read it in secondary school. Steve Harris wrote the intro. Google it if you guys don’t believe me lol)?
(Space for answer or summary)
Answer
He died from exposure after getting his dick stuck in wet concrete which dried while he was unconscious.
If I look it up again the next day and if I don’t get most of them right, I will do something like this:
An economy class ticket from a country with the exact same time as China costs 3K USD now. It’s a 2.5-3hr flight to the main airport in Shenzhen. Is this for real lol??? How much does it cost in the US?
For comparison, it used to be like 150-400 USD depending on days/festive seasons.
PS:
Ignore tag in other thread. Thought I was in this thread lol.
EDIT:
Got it wrong. That’s the price from a BUDGET AIRLINE. The economy class is about 4.5K for standard ones.
I just wanna confess after all the madness that’s happened in my life these couple of months which made me take a hiatus from this site, I really miss all you guys/gals/pronoun(not sure how to label this. genuinely no sarcasm involved. Would actually appreciate it if anyone can tell me what term I should have used cos I’m starting to get good and bad days with regards to my English again).
Anyway, you’ll never get rid of me even if you want to unless you do a @Chris_Colucci and ban me for the next 100 years lol.
Chris Colucci is no longer in the forum, but if he enters to read and write, he is no longer an employee of the forum. Apparently you’ve been away for a long time.
This is another opportunity to excel. The company doesn’t care how good you do in a scavenger hunt: they care about how much buy-in you demonstrate and how willing you are to take leadership in this situation. Great chance to beat out your peers.
