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The kids tell me they think more people are anti-war in their generation then pro-war.
These are rural teens in a heavily conservative area. They didn’t say this with disdain and a few commented it's the government that is pro-war. This was said with disdain.
Hey kid you want a job?
Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.
See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.
Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.
Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.
Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.
Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section
(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!
Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.
Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(
Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!
Listen to me
Listen very closely
The above is exactly why half of my friends come to me, and cry they're suffering, and I get to bestow my job hunting knowledge on them. I love this shit, it's a game.
For credentials my fastest job hunting time has been 1 week. I searched for 1 week, got an interview, and was hired within a week. My slowest was 1 month, while out of work, while telling ALL my interviewers that I quit my work without notice (I was testing my interviewers to see how shocked they'd get when I'd tell them why, anyone who wasn't shocked I would tell them at the end that I will keep them in mind (not)). My entire average is 2-3 weeks.
Firstly, what you're gunna do is pick a job sector. You're gunna pick a few of these by the end, but for now pick one. Maybe you wanna do bookkeeping, maybe you wanna do something in doggy daycare. Maybe you're a sous chef. Idk! Figure out what abouts you want first. Do not apply to anything yet. You're gunna look at the job description, I've picked out a few for bookkeepers below.
Now what you're gunna do is you're gunna look for "buzz words", or rather words that are gunna appear commonly and indicate the tone for that job. I've highlighted some, but not all in my examples below
Just look at that snout at how similar those descriptions are!
Now that you've got your buzzwords, you're gunna slap those babies into your resume! You see, since your resume is usually read by a computer first, you're gunna trick the computer into giving it to a person. Really what the computer is scanning for is how similar your resume is to the job description. Remember your bullet points, and to keep it short, try to only have 3 to 5 bullet points per job:
- Processed over 500 invoices a day in an efficient and accurate manner
- Curated reports for management review by utilizing available data
- Monitored and recorded over 100 submissions each day increasing accuracy by 50%
These are some great, made up examples I pulled from those buzz words. You might notice I added some numbers into there. That's something you'll wanna try and note for yourself, how much of something you can do, how accurate, how much efficiency you increased, these look GREAT when your resume gets past the computer and is moved in front of a real person.
Now you have your sector-based resume with lots of buzzwords. This is great! Now for the easy part. You're gunna channel your inner "IDGAF" And you're gunna send that to every listing you like on indeed. Filter for "Apply on Indeed" and spam that shit. Sometimes you gotta answer a few extra questions, but if they give me more than 5 quick questions I trash the submission and move on.
Don't waste your time jumping through hoops, streamline it for yourself and use the same methods companies are using. Push MASSIVE amounts of average quality resumes out. The more opportunities taken = the greater the chance of success. For every opportunity taken you've now pitched a chance of success, for every resume you cannot submit because you're piddling around on their stupid website or answering 50 interview questions online, you send out a 0% chance of success.
So go, try this, and see how it works for you.
Some additional things to consider:
- Add random shit in your resume, I added my "Board Game Club" (BDSM group) into my resume for hobbies and discussed how I got my start using sparklines there
- Never underestimate the flair of a little Clipart fleur-de-lis or something on your resume. Never put colored Clipart, but a little floral or swirl design located somewhere nice makes it stand out
- if you don't have a degree that doesn't mean they won't pick you, twice now I've come to a job without a bachelors and being honest that I was only getting an associates before I think of my next steps
- Embellish, do not lie. Jargoning your job description to make it sound cool and professional is GREAT. Do not give me a resume saying you can use CNC machinery when you've only used a 3D printer. Just tell me you know how to program and manage a 3d printer and want to learn CNC machinery.
- Keep. Your. Resume. To. Two. Or. Less. Pages. You don't need EVERY job, only the relevant ones, if your interviewer asks about the gap, tell them what job you had during that time (or if you wanna lie say you were taking college courses and were on a break, you dont need a degree to say you took courses) and that you only wanted to showcase the most relevant ones
- I'm serious on that last one I'll eat your fucking resume
Men in Black (1997) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
I use this scene to explain implicit bias to people. his first instinct is to assume the aliens are violent and the girl is innocent, but instead of acting on those assumptions he takes time to recognize his bias, look at the situation again, and then act.
I watched this with my dad when I was fairly young, and I remember thinking that this was why he got chosen; before he even really knew what was going on, he didn’t assume that aliens were dangerous monsters.
It goes even further. The Men in Black IMPLICITLY are pro-non-violent-aliens-living-among-humans.
Therefore Jay taking note of how each one seems menacing but notes the smaller details is exactly what the MiB are looking for. The other candidates fired at every nonhuman looking entity in the simulation.
Look closely and you’ll see the simulation is full of big teeth, dangerous looking aliens doing mundane tasks like crossing the street, preparing for a sneeze, hailing a taxi, getting a hot dog from a vendor.
The Men in Black SPECIFICALLY look for people who are perfect at sorting out what an actual problem is in a crowded situation. Zed must have been beaming on the inside. This man really WAS a perfect candidate.
I love pointing this out: the novelization confirms, yes, he was 100% right in his assessment there
A few years ago we had a cis female king because the boys in that class didn't want to do it. And the year after that we had a male queen because the girls in his class didn't want to do it. That person's family didn't like it and we have since stopped letting whoever be nominated.
Had an embarrassing experience with my juniors. We're discussing seminal documents in the formation of the nation. Last week we read the Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech and to summarize why was was necessary I said, "the colonies were sending the king tons of messages and he just left them on read."
Then today in talking about that speech and the declaration independence (similarities, differences, and common themes from the period) I said, "while the doi was revolutionary for the time, showcasing enlightenment ideas, notice that they don't provide real receipts for the claims they make."
No wonder my students say I'm basically gen z 🙄
Licantropiacopy by tonysandoval
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I used this art with my juniors to talk about art analysis. They had a lot to say and noticed a lot of details. We talked about werewolves but also, the most interesting, was the kid who cried wolf. But in this picture they are the wolf. It was a fun lesson/ discussion.
I love this
Graded the freshmores 6 word memoirs tonight and was pleased with their work.
Quite a few had really strong ones and I feel like some of my pre-lessons really worked. Will include those in two years when I teach English 10 again.
Today was the last discussion on Of Mice and Men with my two juniors and they went a way I wasn’t expecting.
Especially with these kids, I encourage them to make their own interpretations of a text, but I will give some focus to them fitting for their ability and ages. Since both of these students had read the book previously, I decide to have them think more about craft and structure in the ways Steinbeck foreshadows the ending and dooms Lennie.
Today’s discussion went the direction of hating on Lennie. One of the students called him a sociopath due to his lack of reaction about killing the animals and Curley’s wife. The other student had a more nuanced view in that he didn’t want to excuse murder but could also see extenuating circumstances like Lennie’s intellectual disability. Listen, murder is wrong, I agree, but Lennie is such a product of his situation but no matter how I asked them to get to why they thought Lennie was this way, they kept going to the idea that Lennie is just born bad. Which is just disheartening. I didn’t emphasize the eugenics info that I have in the past because of the split up nature of that class, but now I wish I have. They can believe that Lennie is bad, but it’s the lack of nuance that I worry about as I see it in other aspects, one student more than the other.
I will say this is the first time I’ve had people turn against Lennie and write him off entirely.
Got asked to present something ELA related at a regional PD in February but have no idea what I could present. Like, I'm not an exemplary teacher! I'm not doing anything that others haven't already figured out! Extreme imposter syndrome over anyone thinking I'm good at this.
Though, I am open to thoughts or encouragement.
Tomorrow is the first day of in-service. I've been telling myself all day that it's ok to be nervous, but it's just my co-workers, not students. And I have a week to prepare.
Educhums help--dress code
We are having a bit of an issue with dress code at our school. The girls are most often the ones violating it for showing skin, the boys usually get dinged on hats and inappropriate designs on shirts. Well for some reason, the boys have decided to complain about the length of a girls shorts this last week (she was asked to change) and today wore their own short shorts (not all that short).
Our fill in admin (who is taking over next year) says it is within their right to protest but all of this feels wrong to me. Can they protest if the rules aren't enforced equally? Sure. But this was dealt with. Now it feels like they are protesting that girls are wearing too sexualized of clothing.. except then they are the ones sexualizing them. Am I wrong? How has your school dealt with this? What solutions have you wanted to try?
Educhums help--dress code
We are having a bit of an issue with dress code at our school. The girls are most often the ones violating it for showing skin, the boys usually get dinged on hats and inappropriate designs on shirts. Well for some reason, the boys have decided to complain about the length of a girls shorts this last week (she was asked to change) and today wore their own short shorts (not all that short).
Our fill in admin (who is taking over next year) says it is within their right to protest but all of this feels wrong to me. Can they protest if the rules aren't enforced equally? Sure. But this was dealt with. Now it feels like they are protesting that girls are wearing too sexualized of clothing.. except then they are the ones sexualizing them. Am I wrong? How has your school dealt with this? What solutions have you wanted to try?
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