Job-seeking is anti-inductive. From <https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-and-the-anti-inductive/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-

Job-seeking is anti-inductive. From <https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-and-the-anti-inductive/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/11/the-phatic-and-the-ant...>: > “Oh God,” they answered. “No, anything but that. Nothing says ‘person exactly like every other bright-eyed naive new doctor’ than wanting to help people. You’re trying to distinguish yourself from the pack! [...] Okay, tell you what. You have any experience treating people in disaster-prone Third World countries? [...] Talk about how you want to become a doctor because the people of Haiti taught you so much.” > During my interviews, I talked about my time working in Haiti. I got to talk to some of the other applicants, and they talked about their time working in Ethiopia, or Bangladesh, or Nicaragua, or wherever. Apparently the “stand out by working in a disaster-prone Third World country” plan was sufficiently successful that everyone started using, and now the people who do it don’t stand out at all. My interviewer was probably thinking “Oh God, what Third World country is this guy going to start blabbering about how much he learned from?” and moving my application to the REJECT pile as soon as I opened my mouth.