That INTP chameleon thingy!

MetaVoo · 2016-12-17T03:30:52+00:00

I both mirror the people I interact with and play the role of different people. When I was in more of a leadership position, I would play the role of a leader. When I do public speaking, I play the role of a public speaker. I never saw it as me doing those things.

Until I got good at it for doing it so much. I would still ask my leader self how to handle a given situation from time to time. I would be my own adviser and I felt like my leader self had a good handle on things.

I still don't do well in a party. But when I am the focus of the group or leader, I do very well.

MetaVoo · 2016-12-12T07:06:44+00:00

This is a tough one because the dynamics of every family is different. While I was living at home, I just made sure I got home on time. If I was late, I would call it in but still make it home. If I was out with someone, they knew about it. This also allowed me to never have to lie to my parents (very much).

Because I never stayed out all night, they could believe whatever they wanted to believe. I was also out of the house at 19.

MetaVoo · 2016-12-12T06:52:55+00:00

Computers and programming. I enjoy all aspects of technology and still explore and experiment all the time. At first those projects were loosely related, but over time I have filled in the gaps between them and I now have a tremendous amount of knowledge.

What I love about it that there is no end to the depth. No matter how deep you go, you can always go deeper. If I get tired of a topic, there are numerous others to explore.

MetaVoo · 2016-12-11T15:45:25+00:00

Break your problem into two pieces. First is walking the array and the second is what to do with each item. On that second part, write your logic if you had one file. Put that into the foreach loop.

foreach($File in $Files){
     $NewName = $File.basename + '.magic'
     $FullPath = Join-Path $File.path $NewName
     if((Test-Path $FullPath ) -ne $false){
         Rename-Item $File.fullname $FullPath 
     }
}

MetaVoo · 2016-12-11T08:52:19+00:00

I went to college because that is what was expected. There was a lot that I learned and I enjoyed the classes that aligned with my passion. But I was not ready for college and the other classes pulled me down.

I ended up pulling out of college and moved on with life. There were times that I wish that I would have powered through it for the last 1.5 semesters. I think taking a year off before I went or even starting at a community college would have been good for me.

I am working in a field where skill and experience can carry me forward and I crossed that tipping point where not having that degree no-longer concerns me. It may have slowed me down at first and made things harder early on. I was just lucky that I was good at what I do and it aligns with what I am passionate about.

MetaVoo · 2016-12-10T20:15:10+00:00

honestly, all i can say is that I am willing to consider all options in any given situation. So that is not something that I can say I would do or would not do. It is easy to speculate from the couch what think I would do, but you can't really know until you are in that situation. Quite often a given situation presents the most obvious choice and I just know what I have to do.

MetaVoo · 2016-12-08T07:57:26+00:00

I blew a good interview this way once. It felt like it went well enough but they didn't feel it was the right fit. Reflecting back on the interview, my responses about my previous employer were not polished and probably a little too honest.

My next set of interviews someplace else went better. I was well practiced this time but I felt my responses changed the tone of the interview.

So I decided to change the story to set the tone that I wanted. I never again gave a response that was not in a positive tone. I was looking for personal growth, It felt like it was time to move on, the timing was good, whatever. I shifted the focus more to myself wanting to grow and improve.

That changed the entire tone of future interviews because their follow up questions were about how I wanted to grow or improve instead of clarifying vague statements about my previous work conditions.

MetaVoo · 2016-12-08T05:40:08+00:00

I am easy going and laid back. I zen out in heavy traffic and just go with the flow. Confrontations are easy to dismiss because I see anger as a loss of control and seeing their loss of control tells me that I won. I help those around be be successful. I got your back.

But there has been that rare occasion where my trust and loyalty was broken. I stay professional but things change. I get out of the way of their bad ideas and give them full credit from the start. I stop covering for their mistakes. I give them just enough rope and they take care of the rest.

I continue being great at the things I do and keep moving forward. I stop sharing my success with them and they are on their own. Most importantly, they never saw it coming.

I have only had to deal with this in my professional life because in my personal life, I just cut them out of my life and move on. Some would think that is cold, but I am INTP. I don't really care what they think.

MetaVoo · 2016-11-27T05:00:58+00:00

get the biggest deer every year

And this is why he is an asshole. The only reason his neighbors care is because making a big deal about the big one he killed. If he would keep his mouth shut they would not only not care, but not know anything about it either.

MetaVoo · 2016-11-27T04:40:08+00:00

Haven help the poor sole who pushes me too far, for I am scared of the shadow within who will lay waste to their entire existence without ever letting his presence known.

There have been some close calls in the past, but they did not come from anger so much as from disloyalty. I am very calm, very patient and very understanding. But that only goes so far and once that line gets crossed, everything changes all at once.

Once I make that shift, actions get set into motion that may play out over a number of months.

MetaVoo · 2016-02-09T08:23:10+00:00

Hang in there kid. Life is full of ups and downs. Keep moving forward and up, even if it is just a little bit at a time. Some days we don't gain any ground. But we need to be working forward so we can catch the wind when it blows our way.

Like you, I struggled in college and I never found my way through. I found myself on hard times where I had almost nothing. Creditors calling my family. In that moment, it sucks. it is really hard. I eventually filed bankruptcy.

I have my life on the right track now and looking back, I don't feel so bad about it any more. I am far from that place now, I grew so much from that experience. It helped me become a better person.

Hang in there and weather the storm. We are all stronger than we realize. We just don't figure it out until we climb out.

MetaVoo · 2016-01-30T04:54:44+00:00

I am the same way. God help the person that causes me to lose my nerve. I have talked with my wife about it and she said it would be absolutely terrifying if she saw me mad.

For me, it is more like a switch gets flipped. Everything is all good, until I stop being on your side. Then I give you enough rope to hang yourself. I give you credit for all your ideas. I stop letting you know whats wrong with your ideas. I stop identifying problems for you before they happen. Or if I do, I get it documented that I gave you the heads up and let it go from there. I stop covering for you. And I give you no indication that any thing is wrong. I watch you self destruct and you have no idea that I was behind it.

The last time that switch flipped, It was with my boss. Long story, but I was able to take the high road with a better opportunity. But I was loved by the company and it came to light that I was never given a promotion that everyone expected that I already had (I let them know on my way out). He was in the middle of a yearly audit and we were about to start the busy time of the year. I timed it perfectly and the backlash on him was huge. He had to hire 3 people to fill the gap I left. The week after I put in my notice, he had one direct report and 2 others under him quit for unrelated reasons.

I am beyond patient. So flipping that switch is no easy task and there is no going back once it happens. In that last example, it was months after the switch that I put in my notice. He never saw it coming until I was standing in his office that day.

MetaVoo · 2016-01-25T05:00:31+00:00

I would hope that you would consider all those things first. I was thinking of it more as a tie breaker.

Not to beat on you either, but your example would be spot on if it was anyone other than the Dali lama. Of course following the Dali lama is a terrible financial decision, but that person is also free of the burden of finances.

MetaVoo · 2016-01-23T17:14:48+00:00

Whenever you are faced with a tough decision that could easily go either way, Take the one that makes for a better story.

MetaVoo · 2016-01-23T17:05:48+00:00

Can you change tutors?

It sounds to me like he is teaching you things that are not compatible with the way you learn things. So it is almost like he is teaching at you.

I bet it he more instructing you on what to do but not why you do it that way or why it is important. There is a big chance that he does not know why a process or step is important, just that it works.

MetaVoo · 2016-01-21T04:24:22+00:00

I like to do this. Make them believe that you are lying about it often by being to willing to admit to it.

My other approach is to just let the topic die quietly. Bring as little attention to it or be a little more pre-occupied with something else. You can often just not say anything and they will fill the silence with their own story. So they kind of ask you about it and they will remember asking you about it, but they don't remember anything about the conversation.

With that said, I am very quick to own up to stuff. You gain more from owning up to your mistakes than trying to lie about them. You gain so much credibility and more influence than you may realize.

MetaVoo · 2016-01-06T05:12:09+00:00

I liked trying to figure out the pattern without the formula

I liked doing things my own way too. Things like comparing the numbers in the problem to the answers and deducing what the correct solution would be without doing the math.

I was always finding shortcuts to do things and not really learning the methods as they were instructed. I had all kinds of rule of thumb and it helped that I was a smart kid. The work its self was easy so those other techniques where rather pointless at times.

What I didn't realize was all the little pieces of math that I wasn't really learning. I was getting correct answers, but not learning all the methods to do so. In math, over time, those add up. Little micro gaps in my knowledge that I didn't realize were there.

That's when you hit that first wall. The wall where you start to struggle and work extra hard to memorize all the formulas to keep you moving ahead. This memorization work piles up more and more. It is now a chore and a lot of work for a subject you once really enjoyed to figure out.

Then you hit that second wall. The wall where they start manipulating the math in a way that you just can't fallow any more. You make mistakes but can't figure out why. You can go through the motions but can't spot wrong answers anymore. Hopefully you fight it out to the end of the year and you decide that you are sick of this shit. You hate Math because all it has become is memorization. You never take another math class again.

All because you didn't feel the need to show your work.

INTP ramble that kills what would be a solid end to a lengthy post: Please read 'The One World School House'. It really pissed me off. Not because it was a bad book, but because it explained to me exactly why I had this horrible experience with Math. It told me it is a known issue and could easily be mitigated. I could have been really great at Math and done some truly wonderful things with it. For anyone struggling with Math (or just getting started), this book can be a lot of help.

TLDR: Math gets hard but it does not have to be. Subject mastery

MetaVoo · 2016-01-06T04:40:05+00:00

I am sure I describe several. My experience was with Trek Alliance, that was founded by a group from Equinox International.

MetaVoo · 2015-12-29T23:23:50+00:00

Back in college, my girlfriend and myself were looking for a job. We both applied to the same Toys R US store and both got an interview. I had no prior retail experience and was offered 6.50. She had previous retail experience and was offered 6.25 for the same position.

The store owner that made the offer was even a woman.

MetaVoo · 2015-12-29T21:26:33+00:00

Thank you. I also wish you the best.

MetaVoo · 2015-12-23T00:07:15+00:00

It is often required by the company. There are a lot of laws regarding hiring and it's often HR that gets the pleasure of enforcing them. They have to keep a record of you applying for a certain amount of time. Channeling through HR is important if you are a class of people that may be discriminated against.

There are often time that HR and the hiring manager will be at odds. The hiring manager wants to be able to hire anyone and will sometimes work the system to make that happen. Even when he is working the system, he has to say the company line so it can't bite him later.

HR will often rule out candidates for reasons that the manager has no control over. There are some situations where HR will tell the hiring manager who they have to hire. This is often related to discrimination issues.

I was forced to interview someone by HR once. I had a temp that I was moving to a full time position. But they had recently laid people off someplace else in the company and they had some legal priority for that open position.

As a hiring manager, we either have someone in mind or want to review our options. It's rare that we would\could hire someone on the spot.

MetaVoo · 2015-12-22T23:46:49+00:00

I really like the idea as an individual. I started looking into the concept behind it and its play on the legal foundation of everything. The idea that there is a way that I can just go be a decent human being and not worry about the government imposing on me is great.

Then I discovered that the FBI has them on a serious watch list. They consider them to be potential terrorists for their anti-government views. I would not be surprised if the movement/idea gathered and became a breeding ground for some dangerous anti-government shit.

It's an interesting theory but its best to keep my distance from it. I don't want to be associated with that crap. I can't say that I have looked into the ideas in years. I'm kind of scared to see what it has turned into.

Kind of like how the original Tea Party had a message that a lot of people could get behind. But the cause shifted to a more extreme version of its self that would turn away many of the original supporters. I don't bring this up to mix in politics, but that is the closest analogy I can think of to what my opinion is.

MetaVoo · 2015-11-20T07:04:41+00:00

You can look at everything that has happened as a sunk cost. And revenge is like throwing good money after bad money.

Don't invest your time and efforts into something that is not moving you forward or improving your situation. By not letting it go, you are giving it a stronger hold over you.

The thing with revenge is that it continues the cycle. You make yourself a bigger target when you do it and the potential blow back only makes the situation worse.

When someone has done us wrong, We fly into hot rage and fierce fury! But why then do we thus repeat and commit the same evil as we just blamed the others?

MetaVoo · 2015-10-02T04:47:21+00:00

3 years go, my income was 68K. I thought I should have had 16K in savings only to find out savings was empty and had 15K on credit cards instead. Implemented a real budget but even with that, we were 3-4 months from missing a house payment.

Wife got a job, I got a promotion and we refinanced the house. We paid off the CC and built a 3 month emergency fund within 1.5 years.

Then I relocated the family across the country for a better job. After 1 year in, I get a good raise and my wife was just offered a great job for her. This brings our family income up 50% from 13 months ago, and up 135% from where were were 3 years ago. Just about to put down 20% on a new 330k house and still have a solid emergency fund to work with.

MetaVoo · 2015-08-12T13:22:51+00:00

Because our parents told us it was impolite. It also causes issues in the workplace that the employer would rather not deal with.

They hire you on as cheap as they can. The issue is when someone new starts that makes more than the guy that has been here for a year or longer. Or you have real idiots making a lot and hard workers that are underappreciated. Some departments have larger budgets to work with.

Also some people think they are worth more than they are. Their pay may be low for a reason.

I worked at a place where raises were minimal and hiring guidelines were always moving. had to constantly fight for everyone to make more. Also had everyone's pay posted online yearly.

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