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Hey folks, fellow-engineers, what part of that guideline can you associate yourself with in all honesty? How did you help your former company which laid you off to expand the business? Ok, maybe the money they saved on you was used to bribe some guy in the government but you can't take credit for that, can you? And how about overcoming the problems your organization (!) faced? Notice, it is not about you- it is about them. Your former organization screwed you up but it faced challenges, not you. You will not find employers searching resumes for words like duties and responsibilities. You are a bolt. If there is a hole suitable- in you go if you prove that you can fit and endure a screwdriver from time to time. If not- nobody cares. Except for those who write those stupid guidelines. I would advise to write in your resume that instead of engineering you performed blowjobs and that way you attracted lots of new customers, thus you are ready to do it again for your new employers. I am sure there will be a huge demand for that skill. I read that in some companies here and abroad they actually demanded from the candidates to take off their pants thus expressing the flexibility and adaptation. What an accomplishment in human relations!
I am a member of the Jobs Group on Linkeid where people introduce themselves asking for help to find a Job. All of them are selling themselves profusely. It really resembles a slave market where slaves advertize themselves. None of them tell what they want- what kind of life/work thing, what their skill means for them although sometimes they put out a website or talk about a dream of theirs. But that dream is "working for a dynamic company'. What a dream really!
All that waste goes into the bottomless pit of electronic computing. You cannot apply by phone anymore, hear a person's voice. No, you send your "profile' anonymously and nobody cares. Outsourcing surely flourishes because in case of India or China there is a guarantee that no faces will be seen. Do you know why our torturers put hoods on the heads of the tortured? They do not want to see those eyes. Same here.
Self- selling to the anonymous bidder is a disgusting self-degrading process from which men suffer the most. I am not saying that women have no feelings. But they adopt the game easier. The article above about the resumes is written by a woman. She honestly believes she helps people to get jobs. She does not see any nonsense in what she is recommending. It is her Job. She considers that she does it well and she deserves to lecture others. She is content.
Recently there was an announcement that the Shuttle Program would be cancelled and about 7000 highly qualified engineers would "join to job market'- that's' how it is presented. Let's imagine that instead we announce that we say cut several military divisions and "7000 officers will have to join the job market'. See that? No way, we have VA, we have pensions, we have obligations before the men and women who put their life" you know, to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. But we do not have anything for those who had " responsibilities' to deliver a Shuttle into space. How did you help your organization to expand? I helped it to shrink, poor bastard I am.
Job is not a thrill. Job is not an occupation. Job has become a time spent, hours wasted, personified bore. Engineers entering the workforce wait for years for any meaningful assignments. By the age of 40 none of them can take even a simple integral by hand. With the expansion of electronic media paper documents go away and with them- the ability to " work with the technical document'. Turned out our brain is wired in such a way that it does not read deep if the document is electronic- people stopped remembering the rule-of thumb calculations. Alchemy prevails. There are no simple solutions anymore- you have to engage ImperialCollege in London to calculate a flow in the pipe. How did people built the Concordwithout computers, I wonder? Oh, yes, Concord is gone- too costly. Shuttle is too costly too. A second on TV costs about $30K but it is not too costly to send the dancing demon like Glenn Beck to rave every day. Wars are not too costly.
The transformation from work to job, from occupation to paycheck results in total DEPENDENCE and losing of self-confidence. Skill accompanies a person; adaptability is the training term for an animal. They call us "heads' and build cubicles for us. Also they encourage the first name usage. Our cubicles are full of overgrown teenagers with false dentures. When were you called Mr. for the last time? Had it ever occurred to you that we resemble a pack of dogs, not the group of educated humans? Of course if it is just a job why should you worry how you are called? You have lost an ability to worry.
Interviews had become a sham. Positions are open not because people are needed for something definite but because someone powerful wanted them. People are asked anything but meaningful questions. What was your last mistake? Why would we hire you? How did your adapt to the changing environment? If someone asked those things from Enrico Fermi or Thomas Edison we would still be in the Dark Ages. Robert Wood would collapse and never stand up. Ericcson would have never designed a Monitor and South would have won the Civil War. If Albert Einstein have been interviewed about his team spirit he would have been buried in Canada.
Here are some questions I would have asked:
- What's your skill?
- How did you acquire your skill?
- What is the best in your skill and the worst?
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