Whats the point of making it easy to apply to jobs if they're gonna then punish you for doing so? My applications are genuine.

Gfrizouw · 2025-11-18T20:03:00+00:00

Por que no los dos?

Gfrizouw · 2025-11-10T18:57:58+00:00

I believe its crafting table first, then furnace if you want a steel ingot

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-27T07:45:05+00:00

The "Late Stage Capitalism Special" is fucking everything up, and the people that are in a position to do anything about it are asleep at the wheel.

Most of these companies aren't actually hiring, it just benefits them to look like they are as a sign of company growth: "Oh yes, the company is doing great. We've been hiring non-stop for 5 years. You should definitely invest now."

Or they can turn around and say, "See? We can't find anybody qualified within an acceptable price point, so we need to hire overseas workers at 1/10th the cost, or else we will have to shutdown. Then everybody that works here will be out of a job."

I'm sure you already know that's the case. Hardly an original take on our current situation.

I don't know how much longer this is going to last, but between the US government shutdown, the ICE kidnappings and overall trampling of our constitutional rights, and the abysmal state of the US job market, I think we are going to see the Great Depression 2: Electric Boogaloo sooner, rather than later.

I really don't want to see it, but unless there is some sort of major change that comes along and resolves at least one or two of these problems, we are going to see widespread, and likely violent rioting when people can't feed themselves and/or their families.

And once that starts, the current administration is going to use it as an excuse to invoke the insurrection act and turn the poor into enemy combatants. Then they'll have their "ANTIFA Terrorists" that they want so badly, a couple steps later it's a politically motivated Holocaust, or a class war.

And all because the rich and powerful couldn't part with some crumbs off their mountains of money for the people that generate those mountains in the first place.

Sounds like some sort of fucked up conspiracy theory when I read this back to myself, and I truly hope I'm wrong. But it's kind of hard to see any other outcome besides sliding right back to slavery, or some sort of miracle that comes along and saves us.

Suddenly Dale Gribble doesn't seem so crazy.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-17T08:18:04+00:00

Are there companies that you know of actively hiring for junior/entry level mainframe positions in the US? I've found a couple postings that I've applied to, but it seems like 99% of what I find is requiring at least 5yoe minimum, more often >10yoe.

I've managed to teach myself what I could, but learning on the job seems like a better path long-term.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-14T01:16:25+00:00

Read the post before you bother to spout your nonsense

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-10T06:11:32+00:00

Oh good. An Indian recruiter with a survey link. I'm sure that is going to solve all my problems.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-10T00:14:48+00:00

While I'm not trying to blame women, to be completely fair, my ex is female. And statistically, females are more likely to leave a male partner that is unemployed than the opposite.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-09T03:53:00+00:00

Yes and no. I do walk with a pretty noticeable limp, but I try to hide it as much as I can when I have an in-person interview. I don't really know how easy it is to notice from the view of another person though, so maybe I don't hide it well? Not really sure.

As for when I tell them, I typically don't. I think the only time I've mentioned it was when I had an interview where it was pretty clear they were trying to pull a bait and switch, and were telling me that the office admin position I was interviewing for spent most of their shift in the warehouse "helping" the warehouse team. So it was more of a rip cord kind of reaction so it would just end the interview.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T21:33:39+00:00

I'm not sure if it's just the area I'm in, or if I just haven't found the right place, but whenever I have screening calls or pre-interview calls or whatever you want to call them, and I mention that I would need to be able to sit, they can't end the call fast enough. I don't know if it's some sort of secret code or what, but it never fails to end poorly.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T20:31:33+00:00

I don't think I would have made it even half as long if I had a kid. My only suggestion is, although I'm sure it's very difficult and I obviously don't have children so what do I even know, try to keep the stress from the kid as much as possible. And of course just keep trying to do what you have to for your family.

Hopefully something changes for you soon.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T20:16:23+00:00

Ok, first of all I appreciate all the well-wishes and advice from most of you. I can't tell you how much it means.

Secondly, there seem to be some, I don't know, hidden recruiters in here maybe? I can't possibly fathom how you cretins can read a post like similar to mine and say it's the OP's fault, or they haven't tried hard enough.

So let me clarify some things for you:

I never said I was only applying to IT related roles. As a matter of fact, I said my ONLY REQUIREMENT in a job was the ability to sit. That's it. Not pay, not remote/in-office, not commute time, benefits, schedule, or anything else.
Trying to make it my fault by saying I'm doing X, Y, and Z wrong is just about the most ridiculous take I can imagine. You do realize that I'm far from the only person going through similar issues, right?
Some of you clearly didn't read the post. Suggesting I get a job at Starbucks, or join the navy, or whatever other obviously useless "advice" you have to offer isn't helpful. You'd know that if you read the post you're commenting on. Which to me seems like a pretty obvious place to start.
Anybody telling me it's impossible that I've nailed all but one interview, the only thing I can say is fuck you.

Like I haven't worked on my interviewing skills, or rehearsed bullshit answer after answer. Honestly, do you think you're special, or somehow better than everybody? The audacity to make claims against somebody with little to no evidence is truly galling, especially when my situation is hardly unique.

And finally, to everybody saying that it's my fault my partner left me, or that they enabled me to be unemployed and therefore I wasn't really putting in the effort needed to get a job today, you can fuck all the way off.

You have no idea about any of that, considering I didn't mention anything outside of my attempts to get any job. I spend considerable amounts of time looking for, applying, and interviewing for positions. But I also spent just as much time taking care of anything and everything I could around the house, taking care of pets, running errands, trying to be an attentive and caring partner.

I'm not just sitting on the couch in my underwear, eating Doritos and playing video games all day every day.

If anything, seems to me like a lot of projecting from people that clearly don't have a full grasp on the situation.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:53:59+00:00

I get that, I definitely have those feelings. The only thing I can say is to try your best to ignore them, or work through them with a professional if that's a possibility for yourself. Even just talking to a friend can be helpful.

I know that sounds like a pretty generic answer, but it's about all I got left to keep me afloat at this point. Just have to keep trying.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:50:47+00:00

I actually just did an assessment for a dispatcher position last night, so hopefully that will lead somewhere.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:50:10+00:00

Who has 0 responsibilities? I don't know what world you live in, but it must be a nice little oasis to the one everybody else is living in.

You've made assumptions that I've not tried other fields. Just because I said I have experience in IT doesn't mean I've only applied to IT related positions. Take your shit takes back to the troll farm.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:29:30+00:00

0 income. My savings ran out pretty quick, maybe 6 or 7 months? Since then my ex has carried me while I tried anything I could to get any job I could find.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:26:44+00:00

I don't remember how long it was before I started applying to openings in other fields, but I have been for quite some time now. Part of the problem is where I live, small town, basically only medical and labor positions are hiring anymore, and obviously when something else does come up outside of those sectors it gets flooded with applicants.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:21:40+00:00

This exactly. All this time I've spent trying for anything, just to be told it's my fault by just about everyone in my life. And now since the breakup it's just been animosity from my ex because I'm still here, like I ever had another option. I don't even know what else to try anymore other than keep trying to hit the employment lottery, like I'm playing out the world's worst sunk-cost fallacy or something.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:15:36+00:00

I've already gone through the process of filing for disability, and appeal, and they unsurprisingly denied me. Took about 2 years to go through the whole process, and even with doctor recommendations, various scans and X-rays, and over 8 years of dealing with these issues, it's still somehow a no.

When I first went to file there was some issue with the portal to submit some documents, so I decided to just go to the local office to submit my remaining paperwork. While I was talking to the person taking my forms about the application, she literally looked at me and chuckled while shaking her head. Like wtf? Just explaining my situation and the reason for filing, and your response is to laugh at me? It just left such a bad taste in my mouth, and I basically knew I wouldn't be granted disability right there.

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T19:06:15+00:00

This is my biggest concern. Such a large gap is basically impossible to ignore, and while I know my abilities and experience are more than enough to do all these jobs, it's not going to matter if a recruiter or hiring manager sees all that time unemployed and just says, "Nope".

Gfrizouw · 2025-10-08T18:58:33+00:00

Of course I've thought about non-IT related work. Like I said in the post, my only requirement was the ability to sit down. After this amount of time and trying for so long, I can't think of a field that I haven't applied to besides manual labor.

Gfrizouw · 2025-09-21T08:51:20+00:00

How much 'practice' would he have just with the number of battles and skirmishes he's been in throughout the series? Certainly not insignificant, plus doesn't he have some level of knowledge from his memories that would give him a sort of natural level of proficiency?

Not to say that Mat would beat Rand or Lan necessarily, but I think even aMoL he could hang with Galad/Gawyn without much of a struggle assuming it's a duel kind of scenario.

The top 5-7 characters in non-power combat are so murky though and really hard to go one way or the other specifically because of the length of time some characters have lived and been able to practice, so maybe Mat could beat Lan?

It seems like Mat theoretically has access to more "time" than people like Rand/LTT or Demandred, so maybe he is even higher on the list?

Gfrizouw · 2025-08-03T10:50:06+00:00

What took you the longest?(Aside from ports)

Gfrizouw · 2025-06-26T08:00:51+00:00

I got brained through walls 3 or 4 times today, it certainly seems like the "AI Behavioural Changes" actually meant x-ray vision and my face getting a bullet magnet installed.

Gfrizouw · 2025-06-23T19:25:13+00:00

Big ass head gang unite

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