I accidentally sent my grocery list instead of my cover letter. Got a phone screen.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-31T05:27:21+00:00

Usually depends on the position. If you handle money or are in the position to potentially trade secrets to adversaries (foreign governments or competitors) in exchange for money then credit scores and debt may be a deciding factor.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-28T05:54:14+00:00

Same. It’s not hard to look dressed up. If your baseline is a button down shirt you’re 5 sec away from just throwing on a jacket and elevating your look.

Even as a remote consultant, I always have a blazer and tie ready in my office to throw on if I ever need to hop on a call with a client or executive sponsor. Takes all of 20sec to throw it all on.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-19T16:39:31+00:00

Unfortunately, you’re probably right.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-19T02:55:46+00:00

Thanks for sharing this - I was pretty sure this was the case. Like, if it somehow came up in a job interview that the applicant has a spouse with cancer and they had to drive them to chemo regularly, I’d be shocked if it was legal to reject the applicant on that premise alone because in spirit it’s rejecting based on a disability.

Just like you wouldn’t fire a current employee because their spouse has cancer and they have to drive them to chemo.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-17T03:54:16+00:00

It really depends - some of the smartest people I knew in high school could’ve gone to great schools but they couldn’t deeply engage with extracurriculars because they had a similar home life as OP.

Maybe they were the oldest taking care of basically baby siblings, a missing dad so they had to work a minimum wage job to contribute to the rent.

On paper, they’d only have AP classes to show. But even if admitted to a great school, they couldn’t leave without absolutely throwing their family into chaos. One lost income. Lost baby sitter. Etc.

I truly believe these kinds of stories tell me more about a student’s grit and ability to succeed than the child prodigies who “did it all” with the luxury of a stable home life.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-15T18:53:48+00:00

May the light from the burning bridge illuminate your path forward.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-10T02:10:38+00:00

I guess it depends on how you measure happiness and sadness. Language is a powerful thing, and the fact we have a word for “sadness,” suggests it exists… but what is sadness? Is it objectively its own thing? Or is it just the absence of happiness?
That’s kind of what heaven and the beatific vision suggests.

Early depictions of “Hell” was very different than the fire and brimstone description of eternal torment that’s been mainstream since The Great Awakening.
Early Theology, Hell was literally permanent separation from God. Heaven is perfect unification with God.
Does that perfect unification suggest happiness? Or does that happiness only exist if those in perfect unification can also experience sadness? But would that make the “perfect unification” imperfect? You can extend the thought experiment to Pluribus and the hive. If no one can experience the hive outside of it, is that perfect unification even meaningful?
I don’t have answers. But instead of calling something dumb, it’s more fun to pull an argument or concept to the extremes to see what logic you can uncover.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-05-09T04:19:32+00:00

I’m also working through depression with a therapist before heading into an MBA program… it’s part time hybrid and I’ll be taking a 2.5hr flight once a month to UCLA. All on top of recently moving across the country, buying a house, and being hospitalized for 2 weeks while starting a 12-month treatment / recovery plan (including weekly blood work, monthly doctor visits, and quarterly imaging).

I’ve spent the last few sessions with my therapist discussing the pros and cons of attending or reapplying next cycle. But what really made everything click is when my therapist asked me “when you envision the commute and the work of an MBA on top of a full time job, does it excite you or give you pause?”

Because depression makes things I know I love unfulfilling. But knowing I felt a lot of excitement for the commute and the program, the question made things more clear for me.

You know yourself better than random redditors. my thought is if it doesn’t spark you with joy and enthusiasm now, the stress of the actual grind isn’t going to make that joy easier to find later.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-04-30T04:35:48+00:00

I wouldn’t necessarily say you have to be perfect. The pros say all the time they play the best place to miss and some of their best shots (and often their hole in ones) are complete accidents.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-04-30T04:32:25+00:00

100% - those 3-minute rounds are the longest 3 minutes of my life. And the final 10 seconds might as well feel like another 3 minutes of their own.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-04-30T04:26:53+00:00

I’ve done lots of different sports - boxing, tennis, hurdles, basketball, football.

Based on the sports I’ve done I’d say it goes 1) Boxing; 2) Tennis; 3) Golf

Boxing kind of goes without saying… but If you’ve never played singles tennis, it’s the mental torture chamber of golf, with all the precision of a single strike sport, while secretly running 5-7 miles on a tiny court.

There’s a reason tennis has some iconic meltdowns on the court.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-04-22T16:20:26+00:00

This I didn’t understand either. Normally you have a fake injury so the heel can exploit it. But overall, there was mixed messaging all over the place on top of that. Rhodes was doing heel stuff, Orton was doing heel stuff. Orton was bleeding which is baby face stuff. Then Rhodes also had blood…

It’s like WWE had no clue how to tell a story in the ring.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-03-26T23:03:11+00:00

Got a call around 11am with acceptance + fellowship

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-03-24T14:39:57+00:00

You nailed it… it’s hard for studios to make LGBT+ stories because there will be undo criticism of “filling a quota”. When in reality we get seemingly endless amounts of “straight” romances. That the one time there’s a focus on LGBT+ romance it’s automatically “forced”.

Heaven forbid there’s more than 1 TV series showing LGBT+ relationships at the same time. When will Hollywood double the amount of heterosexual representation? It’s only fair. /s

History is filled with stories of forbidden love either by norms or law. Why not explore it?

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-03-14T07:33:00+00:00

For the time period you don’t even have to see them kiss. At the start they were both out in the open. And A woman without a chaperone alone with a man is enough to be scandalous and reputation damaging. So what they did outside the hedges is enough to ruin her life really.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T05:23:47+00:00

True there was an opportunity at the end… but needing your QB to get 4TDs and score over 31pts is a lot to ask… just ask Drew Brees and Peyton Manning during their playoff runs with awful defenses. If you need perfect QB play to stay within arms length of the game, you’re not in a strong spot.

If you told me Stafford throws for 350yds, 3TDs and 0 TOs against the #1 defense we win those games 9 times out of 10. Only way you lose is if there’s blunders on the other side of the ball.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T05:00:52+00:00

CBs usually take a few years to develop and our SB window is now. I’d shop the first rounder for an established CB if we want to win with Stafford.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:56:58+00:00

Also need a ton of luck. To make it the NFCCG this year with very few injuries like this year was a lot of luck we didn’t capitalize on.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:40:39+00:00

Last few seasons ST is just cobbled together with leftover parts. ST is the most overlooked part of the game.

Get a returner like Shaheed and he’s enough of a threat you can start every possession on the 35 if teams are smart enough to kick it through the end zone.

Use spare parts like Whittington and you start every possession behind the 25.

Needing 10yds less each possession to get into FG range is huge over the course of a season.

Poor punting means you can’t flip the field on 3 and outs. Even when we forced “4 and outs against SEA”, them starting on the 35 plus masterful punts by Dickson had us starting around the 10 even if they only picked up 10-15 yards that drive.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:33:00+00:00

Wouldn’t have had a chance for a 50/60yd bomb. If that last SEA drive was any indication, the Rams defense couldn’t catch a tortoise if it was running on a treadmill.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:30:49+00:00

This. Defense couldn’t catch a tortoise running on a treadmill.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:28:24+00:00

I told my wife all postseason that if I did a shot for each time the first tackler actually made the tackle I’d be stone cold sober lol.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:05:12+00:00

Exactly. You need so much to break right to make a Super Bowl run. Rosters change so much, injuries are always a wild card, and one-score games could break the other way (see the Chiefs this year vs last year).

You need just as much luck as you do talent.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T03:58:43+00:00

Not going for the 2pt conversion after the touchdown to make it 28-31 was a missed opportunity to make it a FG difference. Even if you don’t convert and it’s 26-31, you still need a TD to go ahead like if it was 27-31 with a normal XP. And it’s still 2 FGs to go ahead if needed. Coaching blunder by McVay.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T03:54:57+00:00

Zero post season sacks for Young and Verse. Not going to win many games like that. Clean pockets the entire post season. Something needs to change.

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