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Schfourteenteen wrote:I guess this would not be the appropriate time to get revenge for all the times you made fun of me for making stupid, useless spreadsheets that calculated a bunch of meaningless numbers. IM NOT BITTER!I can still make stupid, pointless spreadsheets.
Seriously though keep your head up!
Sly Fox wrote:Keep the faith ... the position that suits you best is out there and you have to keep chasing it and avoid discouragement.Appreciate it, this is the main thing keeping me going, knowing that my skills and abilities match up perfectly with some job, somewhere.
ToTheLeft wrote:Well I just got my first and only real callback from an application so far.The same thing happened to me a couple months ago. I went in for an interview, and he put a piece of paper in front of me with with a flow chart, and asked me some questions that involved me doing algebra. Now, I was actually really good at math all through school.....10 years ago. I couldn't do it. If I would have been in a room by myself and given the problem, I could have done it, but I was totally unprepared. I had no idea I was going to have to do math in an interview.
She asked me to walk her through some slightly advanced (more than just making formulas) Excel stuff.
I bombed and couldn't remember anything.
Really frustrating and disheartening. It's just been so long since I actually had to do anything with Excel that I couldn't recall it all without actually doing it.
Keep praying for me guys, this is really wearing on me.
ALUmnus wrote:I went in for an interview, and he put a piece of paper in front of me with with a flow chart, and asked me some questions that involved me doing algebra.Did it involve a maze & a 1 minute time limit?
ToTheLeft wrote:WOOF!
I can't tell someone how to do a lookup table or a mail merge without the actual program open and remembering how it all works.
blwall1416 wrote:It felt like it.ALUmnus wrote:I went in for an interview, and he put a piece of paper in front of me with with a flow chart, and asked me some questions that involved me doing algebra.Did it involve a maze & a 1 minute time limit?
SeoulFlame wrote:TTL - If you want to get a job that will pay and you can see the world come teach English in Korea for a while. This site should get you started:
http://www.gone2korea.com/index.html
There is a large group of Canadians, Americans, Kiwis, Brits, and Aussies here teaching English so that they can pay off school bills. You don't have to be an English major. Take a risk and try it. If nothing else you get to see the world and pay some bills.
You can come over to my house to watch LU games, but you can't complain like you do on FF.
Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.
Hold My Own wrote:Seriously. People need to realize how awesome complaining is. Every day I wake up and find a way to complain about everything, and I couldn't imagine being happier.but you can't complain like you do on FF.
I have a few friends from LU that did that....loved it so much they still are!
Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.
Hold My Own wrote:You have a great complaining model....even when you are sleeping your still complaining by having your signature say what it does!That's just a safety net - I have actually complained in my sleep. There's no turning back after "zzzzzzz.....Yeah my roomate is a dbag.....zzzzzzz"
ToTheLeft wrote:It's something I'm warming up to. I really don't feel I could teach, but a lot of that is due to my lack of patience with American school-aged kids. I'd imagine the culture is a bit different abroad.
I'm going to look into it, I know my sister is considering doing the same thing.
Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.
Hold My Own wrote:That show is awesome!ToTheLeft wrote:It's something I'm warming up to. I really don't feel I could teach, but a lot of that is due to my lack of patience with American school-aged kids. I'd imagine the culture is a bit different abroad.
I'm going to look into it, I know my sister is considering doing the same thing.
If I had nothing holding me back in the states (GF, wife, kids, lots of family etc) I'd go in a heart beat. Worst case, is it's a great life experience.
Actually I'm wrong...now that I think about it, the worst case is you ending up in some guys trunk holding you for ransom b/c he thinks your family here has a lot of money or something. Yeah....that's the worst case. I've watched the show Locked up abroad quite often.....there are a lot of things that could happen to you actually.
Hold My Own wrote:If I had nothing holding me back in the states (GF, wife, kids, lots of family etc)Does LU know you have both a GF and a wife?!
El Scorcho wrote:post at your own risk.
--Fumble (1961-2009), RIPjcmanson wrote:is HMO a closet Mormon?Hold My Own wrote:If I had nothing holding me back in the states (GF, wife, kids, lots of family etc)Does LU know you have both a GF and a wife?!
jcmanson wrote:Obviously his wife doesn't.Hold My Own wrote:If I had nothing holding me back in the states (GF, wife, kids, lots of family etc)Does LU know you have both a GF and a wife?!
Hold My Own wrote:We're talking about Korea not Cambodia.ToTheLeft wrote:It's something I'm warming up to. I really don't feel I could teach, but a lot of that is due to my lack of patience with American school-aged kids. I'd imagine the culture is a bit different abroad.
I'm going to look into it, I know my sister is considering doing the same thing.
If I had nothing holding me back in the states (GF, wife, kids, lots of family etc) I'd go in a heart beat. Worst case, is it's a great life experience.
Actually I'm wrong...now that I think about it, the worst case is you ending up in some guys trunk holding you for ransom b/c he thinks your family here has a lot of money or something. Yeah....that's the worst case. I've watched the show Locked up abroad quite often.....there are a lot of things that could happen to you actually.
Sly Fox wrote:In my experience with the Falwell family over the past 30+ years, they have never been shy about stating what they believe and standing by it. If anything it should be on their family crest.
Hold My Own wrote:Actually I'm wrong...now that I think about it, the worst case is you ending up in some guys trunk holding you for ransom b/c he thinks your family here has a lot of money or something. Yeah....that's the worst case.Wondering if HMO has been to Movies 10 lately: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810157966/info
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