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Do you realize that there is almost 20% real unemployment? This means that employers who are actually hiring have so many applicants, if you don't answer the p
by forensic 15y ago
Do you realize that there is almost 20% real unemployment?
This means that employers who are actually hiring have so many applicants, if you don't answer the phone, they just go to the next applicant.
This isn't the Google hiring process. This is where there are 50 applications for a single opening at a crappy part time customer facing service job like the McDonald's drive-through.
- chc 15y agoYou really have the wrong image of me. I'm not some highly paid Silicon Valley engineer, I'm a newspaper editor who happens to enjoy making software. Many of my friends work retail (e.g. cashiers) or just above (e.g. bartenders). Many people close to me have been homeless within the past several years. Believe me, I know how it is. I still think you're exaggerating the degree to which you are screwed if you don't have all the latest technology.
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- forensic 15y agoThe point is that those items make more money than they cost and that explains why everyone has them. It's not because they are so fun or make life worth living. It's because they give you access to a job. Same reason a homeless guy buys a suit instead of his last dinner. The suit is an investment: it makes him money. He doesn't enjoy the suit.