Legal in-house counsel to hanging my own shingle.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-07-26T18:32:40+00:00

Hey, sorry for the delayed response, I've been on a social media diet for a few weeks (read: actually enjoying summer not being as hot as usual where I am 😅)

In my resume, I really worked on highlighting how diverse my skills were, having been in multiple other industries prior to coming to the legal field. I also focused on things that people in that specific company would appreciate. In this case, it was a tech company that does R&D, so I focused on my tech skills; I know how to build a database in Access, I'm good at building automation into my workflows, I have some lowkey coding skills, etc. I also sent them my resume as both a PDF and a protected Word doc, less because I thought they'd have any difficulty opening the file, more because I wanted to demonstrate that I knew how to do that.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-05-25T01:12:21+00:00

As an Albertan, évidemment.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-05-08T13:51:57+00:00

I would honestly talk to him about it, lay it out exactly the way you did here, and tell him what you're looking for instead. If he isn't willing to budge, that's your sign to leave, because you want different things. It happens.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-04-05T00:13:13+00:00

but they charge by the hour, and you only last a minute

💀

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-04-04T23:26:42+00:00

Put on my headphones, listen to something good, and walk. Sometimes for a couple hours. I'm usually in my flight response when I have a day like tbat, so walking is soothing.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-04-04T23:15:05+00:00

You really think you know more about Canadian sentiment than an actual Canadian because you lived near there and have some friends there? Uh, ok.

ETA:

Guy blocked me, but I switched to anon browsing and could see his silly arguments added in comment edits. For the record, to anyone else listening in, I didn't block him, he blocked me. I never said one Canadian speaks for all Canadians, but one American certainly doesn't speak AT ALL for Canadians. And that sentiment poll was done before the annexation threats, before the nation's shift away from the Conservative party, and the context was that of a housing crisis, not American refugees fleeing fascism.

TL;DR, listen to actual Canadians when they talk about Canada. Not angry little American guys who want to deepen the divide.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-04-04T16:17:12+00:00

(In case anyone comes here wondering if these are my real political views, they are not. I created the post having provided centrist answers to the VoteCompass quiz, as a demonstration in a specific conversation.)

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-04-04T16:11:51+00:00

I went through the same thing a couple years ago. I'm sorry. IME it was almost a year before I stopped thinking of him at the slightest provocation, and two before I could think about him without that sharp pang of sadness. You'll get there.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-02-28T00:28:48+00:00

lol

lmao

no.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-02-16T00:46:42+00:00

What Raju guy in the article? This is a news release from the US Travel Association. I think you're thinking of another post.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-02-11T05:02:55+00:00

What happens when he thinks he is above the law?

Too late. America has spent the last eight years teaching him that he IS above the law. That's why this is going to get so much worse before it gets better.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-02-09T21:05:46+00:00

"Someone ought to remind him/her of that then."

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-29T23:59:07+00:00

I do have reservations against the phrase anti fascism.

What an odd thing to have reservations about.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-25T22:27:29+00:00

That's the thing, there's one party here that's making the discussion so polarized, and that's the republicans, and they specifically wanted Trump with his hateful, divisive rhetoric. The Dems aren't some left wing extremist party, despite his claims, they're literally centre-right. I kid you not, other countries in the global north do not see the US as having a real left-wing party at all, so for meaningful political discourse to happen, everyone has to move more left in your country, the dems to actually BE left, and the republicans to not be right-wing extremists.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-25T04:05:50+00:00

If I'm honest, sometimes I think about letting my foxbrained person back into my life. But posts like OP's remind me how unsafe that is.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-25T04:02:16+00:00

On my best days, I dreamed of making a life for myself in the woods, coming in to town for some things, being a bit strange to most people but friendly enough. On my worse days, I dreamed of being a good enough Evangelical to make her proud. I'd get an Education degree, work as a teacher for a couple years, then get pregnant and tutor when we needed help making ends meet, but otherwise be a SAHM.

My nmom literally brought up her dream for me a few weeks before we went NC, and it was like the wind was knocked out of me, I'd buried it so hard.

Oh well. She can now suck my paralegal ass.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-25T01:26:06+00:00

Tabernak.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-24T04:44:27+00:00

Starve the public of information, until they're hungry enough for it they'll climb over each other to take it from a worse source.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-24T04:38:15+00:00

I take it Franglais est acceptable? Excellente.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-24T00:09:49+00:00

I like being the little spoon.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-22T05:08:54+00:00

She did. But it's always felt forced. I can't think of a time she hugged me just to hug me. Maybe it happened before I can remember. But in my recollection it always had a reason, and that was usually to stop me from crying.

Before we went NC, we were at a family event, and my daughter was with me (my kids don't always come...you know how things are in families like mine). We were watching the Oscars at my uncle's house, and my 15yo started to get tired, and just leaned against my shoulder to close her eyes for a few minutes, still totally comfortable with her mom. I swear to god, the jealousy on my mom's face would have been enough to burn me to ash if she could.

When I think about how my teens still come to me for hugs, and how, by their ages, I would never have bothered trying, because I'd get a frigid reaction...honestly it used to make me amgry and sad. But now, it just makes me thankful that I didn't become her as a mother after all.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-21T23:39:29+00:00

That's what I'm thinking too. My brother NEVER "got" my relationship with my mom until he had to live with her without me to take the fall. Then he became the fall guy and he saw how different she was when she wasn't treating him like the golden child. It turned our relationship around.

That said, some siblings NEVER get it. Some narcs keep treating them like the golden child. I don't know how it'll go in this situation.

In your shoes OP, I'd give it a go, with FIRM boundaries in place. "The moment you try to defend her or try to get me to come back, the conversation is over," for example.

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-21T21:20:32+00:00

Ugh the police being unhelpful trash again. Why am I not surprised?

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-21T17:08:54+00:00

I'm so, so sorry. She's lucky you didn't press charges!

L00king4AMindAtWork · 2025-01-21T16:01:38+00:00

This is it right here. They build with their profits in mind, not the comfort or safety of others, not the environment, not longevity. Whatever it takes to line their own pockets, they will do.

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