I love every single word in that sentence! And I hate that it's right.

One thing that seemed to be contentious back in the day was whether us bronies were furries.

If i recall correctly, it's more like tinder now (or as of 5 years ago - the last time I looked at it)

I'll pick up on one piece, humbling ourselves to take a job we see as below us is hard. I've done it before and it was a huge ego hit. A friend who's been unemployed for over a year is facing that now. It's not an easy path.

And some income is often better than none.

An early job of mine was in the FBI Academy cafeteria. Very familiar with the area. Forgot about the “loving animals” reference, so it took your explanation for me to catch the joke.

yeah except if you're at a furry convention you have to eat shit and piss in dog bowls while a guy dressed in a chihuahua suit laps it up

Conventions generally are great for networking

And for getting laid

That's pretty cool. My sister and brother in law are there now so I'll be taking a visit there.

I have so many questions...

I have no real experience to back this up, but I feel like nowadays dressing up in a full suit and tie for a computer science job interview would be overdressing (if you are not going to work for a bank). I generally go with just suit pants and a button up shirt and that seems to have worked fine for me so far.

Yup I had a HR personally message me saying the person I recommended doesn't have a certification needed for the job. They have that in a different state, getting it in the state the job is in is as simple as saying "hey I passed the same exams you guys take (it's national), I'm registered and practicing in that other state, can I get approved here?" And they say "sure". It's small documentation and a bit of waiting period, but that's shorter than the training period of the job itself. I said a bit about that but they're like they don't have it in this state. Which I'd understand if it's just a way to say no without saying that person is not qualified for other reasons. Because most other openings I see in our industry gives the candidates 6months to get the certificate because it's easy

I need to find a better phrase than "cargo cult" but I see a lot of that at work. People who don't understand why a system is the way it is become fanatical about doing it particular ways.

Like, you have to do "file -> save as" into the directory. If you save it somewhere else first and copy it that's NO GOOD

Yeah. I think sometimes it comes from using a lot of shitty softwares that only work with "happy path" so they like to repeat what works and won't experiment (because that means repeated work).

I have a lot of "we have to do it this way", me: "this is better", them: "we always do this way".

As well as, me:"hey it's easier this way, I think clients will like this way, even if we do the original they have to switch eventually", them: "no, they asked for this, we NEED to do this", me: "can we ask?", them: "...", i talked to the clients and they were already thinking about the new one and had no problem, saved us weeks of work trying to back port an already existing solution

Feel like I need to start going to furry conventions during my next job search.

At past employers it has seemed to me that most of what the internal recruiters do is look back and forth between resumes and job descriptions and throw away the resumes that don't have enough bullet points matching.

And now we have AI that can do it even worse and even faster!

Lol - just that you swipe the jobs left or right depending on whether you want to apply or not.

I saw that and promptly uninstalled it. I haven't tried it again since then.

Depends how good you are at playing the part, without actually doing any of the bad stuff. Churches vary, but often, it's one of those places where the tribal symbols are more important than actual substance, so taking advantage is very possible.

See: Whatever super-rich televangelist. If you're doing something similar, because you're poor and can't afford childcare, there's an argument that's not even bad, then.

Edit: Although, if OP means Sunday school or youth group specifically, the kids are going to be exposed to some shit, which you'll have to manage. An adult telling you you're going to burn alive, and that's good, isn't really fun for an 8-year-old.

job platforms are the grindr of job search… flaky, poorly built, disappointing experiences, and you feel dirty afterwards

(and this isn’t slut shaming; this is just… grindr is a trash fire)

sounds more like state religion

I'm guessing people would be weirded out if they knew you weren't actually furry-inclined, so it's probably more down to being a good actor, if you're just there to network. And then basic networking skills, after that.

my CV has objectives, code skills, and infra skills right at the top: 1 para each

work experience also has some relatively plain english: achievements and responsibilities as bullet point sentences

all of these contain opinions somewhere… usually in the form of “i thought and pushed for this, worked great”

objectives is almost entirely opinion: the way i think about systems and what i want to achieve in a professional context

I think you're at the wrong convention

I just had a flashback to one of my first office jobs.

They had weekly reporting that needed to be done, and someone non-technical had been assigned to do it. They had like gone into the database and copy-pasted records into excel, and the whole operation took a full day.

I was like, "Hold on. What? You know you can script all of this, right?"

Luckily my boss liked me, and let me go ahead. Changed the task into an hour, including making whatever charts and slide-deck management wanted that month.

Though I do wonder if sometimes doing things badly is a weird pro-labor move- They get paid the same if they take all day versus an hour, so why bother speeding it up?

Interesting, sounds pretty different from the format typically recommended. Would you be willing to share (after taking out any PII of course)?

Yeah, that is probably the most famous joke. There were also a lot of jokes when the "live action" pinocchio movie came out that the reason the fox was the only well animated thing in that movie was because they got the furry artist to build and animate the model. I believe it. That fox was animated with passion, lol.

I guess I have never seen a paying job as "below me". Some jobs aren't worth the pay, but that's different imo. Cleaning up sewer overflow after a storm for $20/hr in 2010 wasn't enough, but $40 sure was.

There is a much more common third type of furry: "I want a fursuit soooo bad but I don't have $10k+ lying around so in the meantime I guess I'll go to furry conventions and {have sex,just hang out} without one"

paperclip with cat ears taps on your screen

It looks like your only exposure to the furry fandom is watching cringe compilations that zoom in only on the 0.1% worst members of the fandom and sensationalize and distort the facts even about them. You could use some changes to your media diet. Would you like help with that?

Or if you're the 20 year old that works the same position as me that I literally would have assassinated someone for at his age, then it's "my brother works here".

Yeah.

I like the way you think!

Unfortunately the perverts I hang out with are largely programmers and nurses and I'm neither, which really kills my networking options

Grindr is DEFINITELY a better job searching platform though

laid off a few months ago and I've been searching for another senior software engineer role in the US for far too long and have gotten to the point where I'm unironically considering applying to places with a resume that is just a few bold sentences about my aptitude as an engineer.

Not because I think it'll work, but because you just start grasping at straws when a decade of development isn't enough to get past ATS and your resume looks like everyone else's.

What have I got to lose? I only even get denials 40% of the time anyways, the other 60% they don't bother responding at all.

I got contacted randomly on Linkedin by some recruiter. I needed a job right after college, and figured might aswell hear her out. Turned out my dream job just kinda fell into my lap that day.

And yet even when I'm part of the ruling class I manage to get screwed… It's not my fault I only want to socialize about things I like

All 3 of those need a good massage once in a while.

I think that's honestly how it goes. If you're efficient and just get more tasks, or get called off for not working (if you're done with work and doing something else), then you have to pace yourself. Lot if work I get is copy paste this from here to here that takes hours, I could have written an script to do all that in the time I spent cooy pasting, but then I'd be the only one who could do it again. Even though the next time it'd take 5-10 minutes

"they might be pedophiles but at least they offer free childcare"

Hmmmm

NGL, that's gotta confuse the hell outta the rare MAGAt "thinker"—even their coprolithic idol doesn't offer childcare at any level.

without actually doing any of the bad stuff.

They all indoctrinate children, and while you did comment on that shared tradition later, it's worth highlighting as unavoidable —not to mention heinous as it attacks the unarmed and generally trusting minds of children. 😢

So, they're furry adjacent, optimally. ☝🏼

I just got an A tier one, can't complain

For the real Furry Certificate, you need long socks and to install and use specifically Arch Linux.

Yeah, I'm not actually sure what OP meant, now. If your kid's in Sunday school, aren't you going to be spending time in the service, anyway? I guess if you just dropped them and ran, it'd be hard for them to say no.

Maybe you could get away with that when they're really little. Once they're school aged, leaving them unsupervised would be better than in the hands of whatever bunch of church ladies, and the Catholic church has a whole other layer of reputation.

From their perspective, we're the ones trying to hide our children from ideas that are correct and vital, so they can justify it to themselves. Trying to defend the standard, evangelical version of hell is harder, which is why it's good to bring up.

D: state-run job websites for the unemployed. You don't have to be unemployed to use them, nor a resident of that state. The listings are at least not scams, and you don't have to pay anything to apply, but success at getting hired is still low.

I hate you. I've been trying to get into my dream job for 21 years to no avail, and yours just falls into your lap right after school.

Life under captialism isn't fair.

I dunno I'd put furry convention higher

It's absolutely awesome, not gonna lie.

Bro stop talking.