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āDepression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but ā if that is the metaphor ā you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud canāt exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.ā
ā Matt Haig (Reasons to stay alive)
āMy daughter has not seen her biological dad since she was four. Sheās 11 now. When she was two he contacted me and asked if I would allow him to terminate his parental rights so he could stop paying child support and I agreed.. I wanted to spare her the heartache of a revolving door father and the sacrifice of the financial support was well worth him never being able to disappoint her again. I never lied to her about where he went or who her dad was.. I have always answered her questions in the most age appropriate way possible. When she was four he contacted me and told me he has been diagnosed with cancer and would like to see her. I set aside a day and we met in the park. He had asked for two hours. He stayed 20 minutes and we never heard from him again.. Over the summer we ran into somebody that knows him and they commented on how she looks like his other children. They elaborated that he has settled down and has a family now. My stomach tied itself in knots thinking of how hurtful that must be to my daughter.. I cut the conversation short and we got in the car to leave and thatās when I saw her smiling. She said āmom.. He figured out how to be a dad. Thatās such a nice thing. Iām happy for his kids.ā And thatās the day an 11 year old taught me all I need to know about forgivenessā
ā A comment onĀ thisĀ Humans of New York post (via dear-didi)
This is the Good Luck Worker! Reblog for the best luck at getting that job you want/need!
Right now, Iām sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Hereās some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:
āYou must include a cover letterā does not mean āwrite a single line about why you want this positionā. If you canāt be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I canāt be bothered to read your CV.
Donāt bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is āsocialising with friendsā and ālistening to musicā. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly donāt care how you spend your time. I wonāt be looking at your CV thinking āhuh, they havenāt included their interests, they must have noneā, Iām just looking for what you have included.
Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that donāt include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like āCV - mediaā tell me that youāve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didnāt tailor it for this position. ā[Full name] CVā is best.
USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I canāt make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.
I donāt care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why theyāre useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and youāre applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, donāt give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job Iām advertising.
Does the application pack say who youāll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. Itās super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people donāt do this.
Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what youāre looking for, not just what you think Iām looking for.
I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If itās not interesting to you, itās probably not interesting to me. Iām overworked and tired. Make my job easy.
āI work well in a team or individuallyā okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means youāll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.
For an entry-level role, tell me how youāre looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you canāt teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.
This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually donāt go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how youāll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all youāve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - itās up to you to figure out the culture and what theyāre looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, itās not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.
And if you get rejected, itās worthwhile asking why. Youāve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, thereās really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, āif it isnāt too much troubleā). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know itās shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if itās just one line like āyour cover letter wasnāt inspiring" at least you know where to start.
And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesnāt read exactly like that of every other person who took the same āhow-to-get-a-jobā class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like āI am a highly motivated and punctual individual whoāā then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.
Very good post thanks for this.
Excellent advice for building and submitting job application documents.
This is the first good resume advice post Iāve seen on this site. Much better advice than the ālists of active verbs to useā and āhere are resume templatesā. Follow this advice.
Am I wet? Am I on my period? Did I pee my pants?- next on wtf is going on down there.
Iām so glad this is a universal wondering among vagina-owners, haha.
āVagina-ownersā
Tune in next time for: Are these menstrual cramps? Am I pregnant? Is it just gas? I wouldnāt have to ask these questions if I didnāt have a damn uterus
Next week: Is it a bladder infection? An ovarian cyst? Do I have endometriosis? Oh God please do not let it be cervical cancer! A 20/20 special
Y'all are forgetting the all-time classic: Is it just my period or is my appendix about to burst? Some nice tea and a heatpack or 911 and emergency surgery?
There is actually a test for that last one!
Place your hand over the pain, press down slightly and release. If the pain doesnāt change by any great margin, youāre fine. If it suddenly becomes some painful you can barely stand, Get thee to an Emergency Room
reblog for the safety of vaginas and their owners
The appendix test works with or without a vagina so reblogging for everyone.
When students keep looking at the clock
Iām like:
Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
Reblog to actually save a life
To explain. The latter works because youāre cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it
as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion
Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didnāt even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.
My husband begins a new life journey next month and the closer it gets, the more anxious I find myself. I was so super excited about him being home when he got out of the military but now heās basically back at it again. Itās been years since weāve dealt with this and Iām not sure how healthy my coping mechanisms will be. On top of that, I have my student teaching to deal with and Iām not sure exactly how itās going to go once heās gone.
āMy parents are from the same small village in Mexico. Ā My mother was the daughter of a successful farmer. Ā My father was very poor. Ā Supposedly they never spoke to each other. Ā My father says he would sit on a rock and admire her from far away. Ā She lived in a big house. Ā She could barely leave because her father was very strict. Ā So they came to America for two different reasons. Ā My father came for work and my mother came for excitement. Ā They both ended up in New York, working at a small Mexican restaurant in Harlem. Ā My grandmother always laughs at my mother. Ā She says: āYou ran all the way to America to marry a boy from the village.āā
We all broke our rules for someone.
Who didnāt really appreciate it
Facts.
Who never fucking deserved it. š
Who made us realize why we have those rules.
BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Maryland.
National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.
Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.
Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the groupās organizers as ācriminals,ā issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the governmentās efforts to secure law and order.
The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.
Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.
One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that ānone of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.ā
Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the governmentās plans.
During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.
Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.
Ironically, the local citizenry blamed government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.
Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.
Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as āringleadersā of the extremist faction, remain at large.
And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.
History. Study it, or repeat it.
And if liberals keep pushing itās going to repeat
Always a reblog
So glad to see this come around again.
I read this out loud to my liberal coworker completely fooling him with it. Also he thinks the Declaration of Independence is what started the Revolutionary warā¦
i need to put all three of these pictures in a single post. this is significant. this matters. this is why i exist
If I ever become a history teacher, Iām going to write āgullibleā on the ceiling. Then in the middle of class, Iāll announce, āThereās āgullibleā written on the ceiling.ā After the whole look vs. not look shenanigan occurs, I shall then slam my books on my desk, prop myself up, lean forward and say, āWelcome to history. Your first lesson? Check your facts for yourself.ā
Graduate in the fall with my degree in 7-12 history....Iām totally doing this.
REPEAT AFTER ME: āMy current situation is not my final destinationā
quote i stumbled across a few days ago and canāt get out of my head itās so important (via worth-recovering)
I always see those āteacher of tiny humansā shirt. I need one that says āteacher of often-taller-than-me humansā.
Iād buy it.
I would totally rock that
Iād buy it.
SAME.
Lucky yous, I did a thing:
https://teespring.com/teacher-of-taller-than-me
Hereās the graphic:
JESUS H. CHRIST I NEED IT.
COME ON, PAYDAY.
"I'm really baked" should be a genre on Netflix.
Does anyone else wanna be an inch tall fairy that sleeps on a small tumbled amethyst, smells like lavender and chamomile, lives on the moon and spends their time watching the stars and having tea parties?
