Try not to complain about your previous jobs or schooling either unless it makes a really really good story (and get confirmation on this from independent sourc

Try not to complain about your previous jobs or schooling either unless it makes a really really good story (and get confirmation on this from independent sources). Like, I interview a paerson who dropped out of graduate school or left after a master's, I want to hear things like "I decided academia and I weren't good fits for each other" or "the two-body problem" or even "ain't no faculty jobs, yo", and I don't want to hear "my advisor's a jerk", even if your advisor is such a jerko supremo they get blogged about or something. EDIT: What I'm trying to get across with these posts is "don't give me a reason to say 'no'."