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> $230K (a quick chat, then four hours of shooting the shit, exceptionally interesting work) Jesus Christ, I wish I knew how to target these companies.

justinlloyd 5y ago
You'll be absolutely steamed if I tell you all of the job "applications" were inbound inquiries whereby the companies approached me and I actively avoided using a single external technical recruiter. I applied for only a single position, at the insistence of my wife. The only place that required a C.V. was someone in HR at the FANG. I used the same C.V. to send to the company my wife wanted me to apply at. I had to create a C.V. specifically to satisfy HR. I haven't used a C.V. in almost 20 years when looking for work. The last time I built a C.V. was when the company I worked for got acquihired and that was 9 years ago. I don't think my C.V. got looked at once during the entire interview process. Nobody I spoke with even mentioned my C.V. I'm not a particularly strong candidate, below average intelligence, so-so education. C.V is here: https://justin-lloyd.com/ https://justin-lloyd.com/ There's nothing remarkable about my C.V. that would get anyone hired, and I know this because nobody ever looked at it.
Schiendelman 5y ago
What do you do and what do you want to do?
- the_only_law 5y ago
  What do I do? So far mostly just typical enterprise stuff, in legacy, but not quite dead versions of tech that has modern counterparts. As for what I want to do, it’s a bit hard to describe. It’s much easier to describe what I don’t want to do. I don’t want a job that a year or two in I’ll dread waking up in the morning and having to work. That’s been a constant in my career so far. I’d also like to work less in the same old and would like to work where I’ll be exposed to me more and ideally working on something that interests me. Ofc the latter goes back to the “hard to describe” thing and mostly something I know when I see, but can’t put it concretely. For the most part I just look at job listings, and have to filter through the swaths of stuff I don’t want to find the occasional job that looks good only to realize there’s no way I’d ever to get it. Sadly it seems like the best way to get where I want is to have been in the a different place with a different mindset five years ago.
  - Schiendelman 5y ago
    What makes you dread going to work? I used to have that experience a lot, and in my last couple of jobs I finally figured out how to set expectations clearly and know my boundaries, and it’s almost completely disappeared. What do you key off that makes you not want a job? Is it possible you’re filtering too hard up front and excluding things that could be a good social fit?

justinlloyd 5y ago

You'll be absolutely steamed if I tell you all of the job "applications" were inbound inquiries whereby the companies approached me and I actively avoided using a single external technical recruiter. I applied for only a single position, at the insistence of my wife. The only place that required a C.V. was someone in HR at the FANG. I used the same C.V. to send to the company my wife wanted me to apply at. I had to create a C.V. specifically to satisfy HR. I haven't used a C.V. in almost 20 years when looking for work. The last time I built a C.V. was when the company I worked for got acquihired and that was 9 years ago. I don't think my C.V. got looked at once during the entire interview process. Nobody I spoke with even mentioned my C.V. I'm not a particularly strong candidate, below average intelligence, so-so education. C.V is here: https://justin-lloyd.com/ https://justin-lloyd.com/ There's nothing remarkable about my C.V. that would get anyone hired, and I know this because nobody ever looked at it.

Schiendelman 5y ago

What do you do and what do you want to do?

the_only_law 5y ago
What do I do? So far mostly just typical enterprise stuff, in legacy, but not quite dead versions of tech that has modern counterparts. As for what I want to do, it’s a bit hard to describe. It’s much easier to describe what I don’t want to do. I don’t want a job that a year or two in I’ll dread waking up in the morning and having to work. That’s been a constant in my career so far. I’d also like to work less in the same old and would like to work where I’ll be exposed to me more and ideally working on something that interests me. Ofc the latter goes back to the “hard to describe” thing and mostly something I know when I see, but can’t put it concretely. For the most part I just look at job listings, and have to filter through the swaths of stuff I don’t want to find the occasional job that looks good only to realize there’s no way I’d ever to get it. Sadly it seems like the best way to get where I want is to have been in the a different place with a different mindset five years ago.
- Schiendelman 5y ago
  What makes you dread going to work? I used to have that experience a lot, and in my last couple of jobs I finally figured out how to set expectations clearly and know my boundaries, and it’s almost completely disappeared. What do you key off that makes you not want a job? Is it possible you’re filtering too hard up front and excluding things that could be a good social fit?