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Build something on your own. Nine-to-5 isn’t enough. Practice, Practice, Practice. Single parents or carers need not apply, eh? Diversity?
by ldite 9y ago
Build something on your own.
Nine-to-5 isn’t enough.
Practice, Practice, Practice.
Single parents or carers need not apply, eh? Diversity?
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoThis is not related to diversity. Some companies want to attract people who spend 40 hours a week on their job and nothing more and that's OK. Other might be out of reach unless you spend many more hours learning every week and that's OK too. Whereas people are spending their free time with their kids or learning or watching television it's up to them.
- gaylemcd 9y agoNo, it is related to diversity. I agree that it's unfair to expect all candidates to work on a side project. Some companies expect this out of all candidates (which is bad). Others see it as a plus (probably okay).
- sage76 9y agoMaybe his/her point is that we should not encourage the idea of having side projects as normal and expected. For many MANY of us (probably the vast majority), this is only our profession. We should treat it as such. Even top lawyers who love their work bill their clients ruthlessly.
- ldite 9y agoI'm fairly confident that the distribution of single parents and people providing unpaid care is not uniform across gender, race or social background. > Whereas people are spending their free time with their kids or learning or watching television it's up to them. If you're a single parent then you don't necessarily get a choice about what to do with your "free" time.
- metaphorm 9y agoright? these are the same companies that are now implementing absurd Orwellian policies like "implicit bias training" and "external diversity auditing" because they're not even willing to confront the true cause of their lack of diversity: the working conditions imposed by management make the job almost impossible for anyone but young men.