Post what you're thinking right now.

[DirtDawg]

i hope you will, DD.

Realistically though, you've been through the hardest part of the process, so you are more than through the toughest bit.  Hope you can relax until it's finalised. 

Thanks, to both of you. I have high hopes, at this point.

I do feel a little strange that I lied so much on the psychological profiling, though. I hope that doesn't bite me in the ass.


... but today, I feel like "Neo" from the Matrix  movies.

Lord, how much did you lie on the profiling?  Do you have an example of a question and how you answered, but how you really wanted to answer?

Well over half the questions.
It was twenty pages of questions, many of them hypothetical, ten to twenty questions per page, depending on the complexity of the answer choices. I have taken several of these lately and I did not answer this one until I had read every question, in order to try to get the general drift of their philosophy. I have failed to qualify in several other cases and I suspect it was because I tried to be honest and portray my own needs and preferences in the answers.

This test, and one other whose company I have heard from, I tried to fool and it may have helped. I just don't know yet. I have only done this twice. All the rest of the personality profiles, I have answered honestly. (I just looked - I have put in nineteen applications, since June, and only two did not require any personality profiling)

Again, I may be jinxing myself. I'm sure glad I'm only lightly superstitious.

Just the fact that they are using a test you can read through and then decide what to answer is silly.  Serves them right that people can fudge it!  The only concern I would have is that by not telling the truth, you end up getting a job not suited to your personality style.  But hey, it's catch 22, a job is a job sometimes, and I do hope you get it, if only to at least give you some confidence back.  (I mean that in a nice way, I know that it's a kick in the guts to be told you aren't wanted for a job, and over time, you can tend to believe you are a little bit worthless)

Seeing thru these fucking tests is an achievement unto itself!   But, if it works for you, more power to you!  Ultimately, it will be your choice as to where things wind up in the end.  Catch-22 or  damned of you do and damned if you don't.  Personally, I'd rather be damned if I do.  At least I/You tried and thats a victory in itself.  Now relax and go for it!

Damned of I do and damned if I don't.

So, I'm fucking gonna.

Thanks Ozy. It's not really anything career worthy, but I am amazed at what I've gone through, just to get this far into the job pool.

[ozymandias]

I got my first college degree, after that........I cleaned toilets, janitor work, washed dishes, groundskeeping, night auditing, desk clerk at a hotel...........blah blah blah.  I don't consider those jobs beneath me, they were a means to an end, what I had to do and did to survive.  Doing what one has to do and doing it as well as one can is not only necessary, but, honorable.  A phrase comes to mind,  "People won't remember what you did, they'll remember how well you did it."

[Calandale]

Wonder if I got in a fight last night.

[QuirkyCarla]

I can't believe I did this. My financial aid check just cleared today ( ) and I bought plane tickets to visit one of my online friends next weekend. We've been wanting to meet up for a while, but we keep having barriers...so I decided to go ahead and just get them, with her approval. I must be nuts. 

[Eclair]

i hope you will, DD.

Realistically though, you've been through the hardest part of the process, so you are more than through the toughest bit.  Hope you can relax until it's finalised. 

Thanks, to both of you. I have high hopes, at this point.

I do feel a little strange that I lied so much on the psychological profiling, though. I hope that doesn't bite me in the ass.


... but today, I feel like "Neo" from the Matrix  movies.

Lord, how much did you lie on the profiling?  Do you have an example of a question and how you answered, but how you really wanted to answer?

Well over half the questions.
It was twenty pages of questions, many of them hypothetical, ten to twenty questions per page, depending on the complexity of the answer choices. I have taken several of these lately and I did not answer this one until I had read every question, in order to try to get the general drift of their philosophy. I have failed to qualify in several other cases and I suspect it was because I tried to be honest and portray my own needs and preferences in the answers.

This test, and one other whose company I have heard from, I tried to fool and it may have helped. I just don't know yet. I have only done this twice. All the rest of the personality profiles, I have answered honestly. (I just looked - I have put in nineteen applications, since June, and only two did not require any personality profiling)

Again, I may be jinxing myself. I'm sure glad I'm only lightly superstitious.

Just the fact that they are using a test you can read through and then decide what to answer is silly.  Serves them right that people can fudge it!  The only concern I would have is that by not telling the truth, you end up getting a job not suited to your personality style.  But hey, it's catch 22, a job is a job sometimes, and I do hope you get it, if only to at least give you some confidence back.  (I mean that in a nice way, I know that it's a kick in the guts to be told you aren't wanted for a job, and over time, you can tend to believe you are a little bit worthless)

That, right there, is a huge part of it. I have been losing confidence with every smartassed twenty-something that rejected me, all the while, me knowing that I could do their bosses' jobs with no problems. I just don't get many chances to even prove that I'm smart enough to do their simple work. Fifty-ish really sucks in the job market.

 


I'm not like some guy getting a job, because his dad cut off his allowance, though. It's my son's and daughter's needs that are influencing me. A kid's simple needs seem to carry more weight than a dad's barking does.

Oh, yeah, I love it when they ask you about your experience in that uppity little way they seem to have.

[odeon]

I can't believe I did this. My financial aid check just cleared today ( ) and I bought plane tickets to visit one of my online friends next weekend. We've been wanting to meet up for a while, but we keep having barriers...so I decided to go ahead and just get them, with her approval. I must be nuts. 

good luck with it.

[purposefulinsanity]

I can't believe I did this. My financial aid check just cleared today ( ) and I bought plane tickets to visit one of my online friends next weekend. We've been wanting to meet up for a while, but we keep having barriers...so I decided to go ahead and just get them, with her approval. I must be nuts. 

That's so cool Carla- hope you have a great time 

[Eclair]

I can't believe I did this. My financial aid check just cleared today ( ) and I bought plane tickets to visit one of my online friends next weekend. We've been wanting to meet up for a while, but we keep having barriers...so I decided to go ahead and just get them, with her approval. I must be nuts. 

That's so cool Carla- hope you have a great time 

That is exciting.  And brave too.  Hope you have a ball.

[odeon]

i've met a few online friends over the years, some of which i still keep in touch with.

[ozymandias]

Wonder where McJ's been??

[El]

What is it about me that invites dinosaur porn?

lol dinosaur porn... where? Someone actually sent you dino porn?

More than one person, more than once! 

What is it about me that invites dinosaur porn?

You sleep in a fossil bed??   Maybe it's time you bought a new one! 

[The_P]

There are times when this site disgusts and irritates me.

It has that effect on most people... if someone hasn't grossed you out, made you feel genocidal or at least made you go wash your hands, you haven't been here enough. Unfortunately, we have bad points as well though, its not all fun and goatse.

That's the nice response. Though, if you had to ask me, it'll be this: Cry me a river, build a bridge, get over it.

[GalileoAce]

Screw that! You can't have my river of tears!

[DirtDawg]

There are times when this site disgusts and irritates me.

It has that effect on most people... if someone hasn't grossed you out, made you feel genocidal or at least made you go wash your hands, you haven't been here enough. Unfortunately, we have bad points as well though, its not all fun and goatse.

That's the nice response. Though, if you had to ask me, it'll be this: Cry me a river, build a bridge, get over it.

Fuck!
I hate seeing my old "Hate Country Music" (even though we made our living that way), and most especially Tammy(!), brush offs from my high school teenage angst years, become popular on the internet, once again.

Cough up the chicken!

 



for the compliment, though.

[The_P]

Can't be AAARRSE!!d with the Jewish guy tonight, so I'm going to leave it until tomorrow. Been busy.



Oy vey.