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Did your job/what you do for a living exist 200 years ago? (early 1800s)
Yes, in essentially the same basic form
Yes, it's pretty different but some form of my job existed then
Not really; there were jobs that bear some similarity but nothing equivalent
No, nothing like my job existed then
My answer to this is complicated
I have no clue
Not employed/show results
"Same basic form" would include things like (for example) teachers or doctors, where the technology and information has changed but the basic responsibilities are the same: teaching and treating sick people.
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YesMadam, a startup, reportedly laid off employees who reported high stress levels in a company survey. This action follows increased discu
Job interview tip I got from a tiktok but it's genius:
If you were unemployed for a while, they're going to ask if you can explain the gap in your resume. Unless you were actually doing something cool & relevant, this is hard to answer in a way that makes you sound like a good corporate cog. So here's the best and infallible answer -
No you cannot, because you signed an NDA.
You now sound mysterious, desirable, worldly, experienced. They can't even really ask you more about it! Perfect.
How To Put "I am a Ao3 Author" on Your Resume
"Published (number of works on ao3) written works spanning (lowest word count) to (highest word count) to a nonprofit international digital archive dedicated to preserving and maintaining society's reactions, impressions, and culture regarding various forms of fictional media."
You can also simplify it to "Creative Writer - Archive (dates) and then put "Wrote for a nonprofit digital archive as a volunteer."
Plus, if you have a lot of hits or kudos on your works, you can say, "I reached (number of hits) people and (number of kudos) of those people signified to the Archive that my work resonated with them."
Because, technically, we are all volunteering our time and donating our writing to AO3's cause of preserving the fandoms and the culture around them. And people do sometimes just call it "Archive". So nothing I just said was a lie.
If you're writing on Ao3, then you have experience writing -- which is the skill you're presenting here. In the long run, you're not doing anything wrong by phrasing your experience in impressive ways.
off the cuff again and perhaps niche but it really bothers me how many trans women on this website complain about “i know so many trans men that work with children and no trans women, it’s so unfair, they’re so privileged to have access to these jobs and also this proves cis people are so much more accepting of them” when if you got your head out of the ‘blaming trans men for everything and assuming everything trans men do is a privilege’ mentality for a mere second you’d realize that what you’re complaining about is how many of us you notice being stuck in often badly paid, often part time dead-end pink-collar jobs, which we also risk losing the second someone ‘thinks of the children’ a little too much and which we only have in the first place if we got them while closeted (and rarely keep for long post-transition)
You know what time it is….
Time for the Tumblr Labor and Employment Survey:
I am a full-time enrolled student (with or without a job)
I am a part-time enrolled student (with or without a job)
I am unemployed and not actively seeking work (for any reason)
I am unemployed and actively seeking work
I work on commissions or have a ‘gig’ contract job (uber, pet walking, etc)
I am a full-time or nearly full-time (35+ hrs total) hourly wage worker
I am a part-time (<35 hrs) hourly wage worker
I am a part-time salaried employee
I am a full-time salaried employee in my chosen profession*
I am a full-time salaried employee NOT in my chosen profession*
None of these answers apply to me/See results
* Regardless of whether you like your actual workplace or specific current practice (e.g. if you hold a nursing degree, you work as a nurse even if it’s in an area of medicine or a clinic that you don’t like)
Survey questions adapted from survey issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.