> I can’t tell if everything is at stake, or nothing is at stake. All I know is that I am being tested, and whether or not I am offered this job will depend on the appetite and mood of strangers.
As someone who has been interviewing a lot lately this hits as close to home as possible. There are times where this sense of helplessness is nauseating.
> I can’t believe I spent so many hours begging universities to hire me, I forgot to learn how to separate the chaff from the wheat and gently grind.
That one too. I'm thinking of that quite often lately. I've spend countless hours just to stay sharp in computer engineering but I know almost nothing of basic survival skills. If things are to go seriously South I'll have almost no skills to deal with it.
As someone who has been interviewing a lot lately this hits as close to home as possible. There are times where this sense of helplessness is nauseating.
> I can’t believe I spent so many hours begging universities to hire me, I forgot to learn how to separate the chaff from the wheat and gently grind.
That one too. I'm thinking of that quite often lately. I've spend countless hours just to stay sharp in computer engineering but I know almost nothing of basic survival skills. If things are to go seriously South I'll have almost no skills to deal with it.
Anyhow that was beautiful prose.