Yup, pretty much. Merit still matters more, but confidence matters just as much. And look, put yourself in the employer’s shoes, if the candidate is slouching, jittery and looks underconfident, what would you think of that candidate? Would you feel hiring that person? Would he be able to handle stress and unforeseen circumstances if he’s this nervous? Everyone has to fake it until they make it. Lemmy rightfully criticise the system, but truth of the matter is that we’re still reliant to having jobs to feed ourselves. It’s important to recognise what’s in one’s control and what’s not. We can’t control the world, but we can control how we respond to it.

The Chicago Bulls ran the fascists!

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If you mean networking sounds like nepotism or cronyism, it’s not really if a company do its best to have set rules and grade the interview candidates with set objective criteria. Not all companies are like that though.

I was going to mention this in my original comment, but I thought I would do so if someone mention the introvert vs extrovert personalities in jobs.

There is no other way of gently putting it, but if you are an introvert, you just have to suck it up. The job won’t come to you. You just have to fake it till you make it until you get a job. Or, while at work, be good and professional enough that you will get good reputation. You don’t have to be best buddies with the boss or coworkers outside of work.

That’s a good point you raised about if someone just moved to a new city. All I could say is that this is why it’s important to secure a job first, before moving to a new city or town, if the person could. But if you moved to a new environment and have been job searching, there are job fairs you could attend. Again, this is where “fake it till you make it” works again; tell the employer that the company is your dream job and all that jazz. And ask how you could apply for the role etc. This worked for me but before I moved out to the new city I am in now.

It’s not necessarily nepotism or cronyism but some places are indeed more corrupt in this regard. I have seen it in my previous company where there is a middle manager, whose position is unnecessary and just annoy the grunt workers. But for the most part, I don’t really see much cronyism and nepotism, although I guess it is because I am not up high in the career ladder yet to witness behind the scenes corruption.

You broke the rule of not putting the word rule on the post title.

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This is why it’s more important to network and have a good work reputation. 70% of job hires is through networking. It makes sense because from employer’s perspective, there is a higher chance that the person recommended is reliable than the candidate who hasn’t been heard of before. It corroborates my own experience as a jobseeker before. A couple of the best jobs I have had was through connections.

That explains a lot with the revelations book.

Human weirdness to chimps: We’re not so different, you and I.

Oh I’m not trying to defend or exalt China. I’m saying that we should be like China when it comes to dealing with billionaires. Or even better, be like Vietnam, when the court ordered a billionaire who defrauded thousands to pay in time or be executed.

Hasn’t the leader of The Proud Boys dildoed himself on live TV to “own the libs?”

UBI when?

My cousin immigrated to the US and wasn’t aware of the ICE raids. Although to be fair, he was a sailor and so he may have had limited access to news while travelling. But on the one hand, with how almost instantaneous access to information these days even if one is travelling a lot, as you said, my cousin may have narrow experience in terms of what information he choose to consume. As in, he maybe only caring about news from our home country.

Reminds of a scene in Saving Private Ryan when the US soldiers captured a German POW, and the POW started blabbing American pop cultural references like Steam boat Willy, Betty Boo, he said I like America and then sanf the Star Spangled Banner so he won’t be shot.

Are we Trump’s prisoner then?

I could still access .world though.

Quiet quitting is such a bizarre phrase for me as Irish. As long as we do our jobs right, we can do whatever we want. At the end of the day, a job is meant to put food on the table, not be your life. Even some of the worst companies I have worked have a laidback attitude compared to workplaces abroad.

At least China is right about not bailing out their companies when their own property bubble collapsed.

Longer term? Sustainably? What are those words? I like money!

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