Honestly though, I searched for at least 6 months before my brother in law was like “I might be able to recommend you to a guy I know at a company I used to work at” and within the month I was hired.
Gonna be trying furry convention next month
Becoming a furry just to get in a line of work is like changing religion for the community support
Same…maybe then i find a job again lol
I found joining a job search counsel via the book never search alone to be helpful. You didn’t have to read the book first because reading the book is part of the JSC.
Might be worth your time looking into it.
Im looking for work and trying to understand what you said.
Here: https://www.neversearchalone.org/jsc
I would also recommend the book Take the Work Out of Networking.
I’ve talked to several recruiters, and outside of entry level positions none of them are interviewing anyone who doesn’t have a referral because there are so many referrals they find enough qualified candidates before they get to the non-referrals. That’s a product of just how bad the job market is.
I’m about to post two jobs myself with a total comp of ~$180k and I already have enough referrals that I won’t interview anyone that isn’t a referral. And the posting isn’t even up yet.
The JSC via Never Search Alone paired with Take the Work Out of Networking has all the skills and advice needed to navigate the current job market as successfully as possible.
I wish you all the best, and am happy to answer as many questions as I can if you’d like.
80 hours of the JSCTM method, plus obligatory book to buy?
This smells exploitative.
We live under a extrovert dictatorship.
I feel like a lot of people involved in the hiring process are incompetent and shouldn’t be there. Like you have HR people who can barely use Word asking if you know Java or JavaScript
Yup I had a HR personally message me saying the person I recommended doesn’t have a certification needed for the job. They have that in a different state, getting it in the state the job is in is as simple as saying “hey I passed the same exams you guys take (it’s national), I’m registered and practicing in that other state, can I get approved here?” And they say “sure”. It’s small documentation and a bit of waiting period, but that’s shorter than the training period of the job itself. I said a bit about that but they’re like they don’t have it in this state. Which I’d understand if it’s just a way to say no without saying that person is not qualified for other reasons. Because most other openings I see in our industry gives the candidates 6months to get the certificate because it’s easy
I need to find a better phrase than “cargo cult” but I see a lot of that at work. People who don’t understand why a system is the way it is become fanatical about doing it particular ways.
Like, you have to do “file -> save as” into the directory. If you save it somewhere else first and copy it that’s NO GOOD
Yeah. I think sometimes it comes from using a lot of shitty softwares that only work with “happy path” so they like to repeat what works and won’t experiment (because that means repeated work).
I have a lot of “we have to do it this way”, me: “this is better”, them: “we always do this way”.
As well as, me:“hey it’s easier this way, I think clients will like this way, even if we do the original they have to switch eventually”, them: “no, they asked for this, we NEED to do this”, me: “can we ask?”, them: “…”, i talked to the clients and they were already thinking about the new one and had no problem, saved us weeks of work trying to back port an already existing solution
yeah except if you’re at a furry convention you have to eat shit and piss in dog bowls while a guy dressed in a chihuahua suit laps it up
paperclip with cat ears taps on your screen
It looks like your only exposure to the furry fandom is watching cringe compilations that zoom in only on the 0.1% worst members of the fandom and sensationalize and distort the facts even about them. You could use some changes to your media diet. Would you like help with that?
yes please
hi sorry it took me so long to get back to you!
this is a good place to start: https://furscience.com/whats-a-furry/
Furscience is a research organization that does studies of furries, primarily surveys. They’re generally seen as a good source of data about the fandom as a whole.
here are some cool people to follow if you want:
https://www.youtube.com/@rorschach_fox/shorts https://www.youtube.com/@zeekayart
Really long rambly response written by me (feel free to not read)
The primary thing to know about the furry fandom is that the term “furry” is obscenely broad. The vast majority create animal characters (“fursonas”) to represent themselves, but not all. Many go in for the kinkier side (I do), but not all. (There is, in fact, sex at furry conventions, but you have to actively go looking for it, and it is not easy to find.) You see plenty of minors at furry conventions (some of whose parents are rich enough to put them in fursuits!) and people who are into the kinkier side switch that part of their brains completely off while chatting with them at a panel or giving them headpats in the hallway. Getting headpats and/or hugs from total strangers is a very common thing at virtually all in-person furry related events, but again, not all furries like it, and you’ll see about equally as many people at cons wearing “don’t touch me please” signs somewhere on their clothing as “please hug me” signs. While we’re on the subject of common misconceptions, most furries (~80%) do not believe they are animals; the ones that do are called therians, and most therians do not consider themselves furries. Also, not all furries have fursuits. This is primarily because they’re completely custom, made-once-and-never-again wearable pieces of art, and are priced accordingly (between four and five figures depending on who you get them from). According to the surveys conducted by Furscience, about 10% of furries own fursuits and another 50% want one, but some people don’t and they’re just as much furries as anyone else. (Also, even the ones that do have them don’t wear them very often, partly because of stigma, but mostly because however hot you think it is under all that fur, it’s hotter.) Some furries like roleplay, some don’t. Some like making their own art, some don’t. Some like looking at furry porn, some don’t. Many spend a lot of time in VRChat or Resonite with their own characters as their skins (although most just download a premade skin like a Novabeast, a Sergal, or an Avali, change the colors, and call it a day). Some furries don’t do VR at all. A lot of furries work in STEM fields (IT, programmers, engineers etc), and STEM people are overrepresented in the fandom, but the vast majoirty do not and are as broke as anyone else. There are a lot of things that people associate with the furry fandom, and it means something different to basically every single person that’s in it. That’s kinda par for the course when you have a fandom (just like the fandom for a TV show) when the thing that they’re fans of is pretty much exclusively things each other have made.
Essentially, the only rule is, if you want to be a furry, congrats, you’re a furry.
Unless you actually genuinely want to fuck dogs. Maybe the one thing that unites all furries everywhere is how much they hate zoophiles. If word gets out that you’ve even considered it, the entire rest of the fandom will come together to disown you.
Oh, one other thing: furries in their day-to-day lives are just normal people. 99.99% of the time when you’re talking to a furry, you won’t know it unless you ask. It’s a hobby that we do in our spare time (going to conventions or local meet-ups where it’s not so weird to wear a fursuit since we’re all doing it, or making or commissioning art, or roleplaying, or hanging out in VRChat, or what have you). Even most furry content creators on the internet (with the exception of the full time drama YouTubers) spend most of their time playing videogames or doing little relatable animations.
That rorschach guy was interesting. I thought he was a rich 21 year old twink that was obsessed with being shirtless and showing dick print. Then I saw the video of his face reveal and quickly realized he was an older guy. Probably mid to late 30s. I wonder what he’s like outside of the suit.
