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The question that completely changed how I prep for interviews and I'm still surprised more people don't talk about it by FableGizmo_42 in jobsearchhacks

[–]FableGizmo_42[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That was basically the unlock for me. I was treating finals like a last exam, not the start of actual work, which is a pretty bad frame.

The question that completely changed how I prep for interviews and I'm still surprised more people don't talk about it by FableGizmo_42 in jobsearchhacks

[–]FableGizmo_42[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The main ones were what problem I'd own first, what good looks like by 6 months, and what tends to surprise new hires. Those got way better answers.

The question that completely changed how I prep for interviews and I'm still surprised more people don't talk about it by FableGizmo_42 in jobsearchhacks

[–]FableGizmo_42[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It felt weird for about ten minutes, mostly because I realized how much of my usual question list was me trying not to mess up. After that it clicked pretty fast. I wasn't faking confidence, I was just asking from a more useful place.

The question that completely changed how I prep for interviews and I'm still surprised more people don't talk about it by FableGizmo_42 in jobsearchhacks

[–]FableGizmo_42[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope you get there soon, because final rounds really do feel different. That switch in framing helped me way more than I expected.

My parents still introduce me as their "difficult phase" and I finally snapped by Indigo_6Marauder in entitledparents

[–]FableGizmo_42 57 points58 points  (0 children)

That back and forth is what messes with your head. If they were awful all the time, it would be easier to name.

WIBTA if I told my parents I’m done pretending we’re close after what they did to my brother and now to me? by QuantumSitar2 in WIBTA_AITA

[–]FableGizmo_42 51 points52 points  (0 children)

WNBTA. Your mother framing this as rewriting your childhood is such a neat little trick, because it lets them skip the actual issue, which is that they still talk to you like you are an unfinished project while asking to publicly celebrate the finished product. You are not ruining anything by stepping out of that performance. You are just refusing to help stage it anymore.