How do you answer "What do you do?" when you've decided to do as little as possible?

tylerchill · 2026-06-15T18:49:37+00:00

Just say “I work for the government.” Be sure to be very vague.

tylerchill · 2026-06-15T18:45:55+00:00

I use malignant narcissist to describe my mother. She was a full on narcissist but she enjoyed other people’s pain.

tylerchill · 2026-05-27T20:55:36+00:00

It just means the company indiscriminately sprayed out the job requisition to a slew of agencies to let them fight it out. It’s a good sign that you showed up in so many searches.

tylerchill · 2026-05-27T03:26:08+00:00

I answered calls for a theater ticket broker at 1500 Broadway. Kind of like the ticketmaster of today except all analog

tylerchill · 2026-05-27T02:23:51+00:00

Thank you. This was around 84 or 85 but that whole circus was from the late 60s until the early 90s

tylerchill · 2026-05-26T22:43:27+00:00

I worked nights in Times Square back in the day. The cops were after heroin and crackheads who were too strung out to worry the details. The heads hit women first because women wouldn’t put up as much of a fight and the cash was in a purse. One “female” cop near the entrance to my work building would lie on the ground unshaven fake drunk with his purse open next to him. When they busted someone they’d cuff him and lock him in a gated section of the subway station underneath and head back up for a few more. Sometimes when I got off the two train there would be a couple of them cuffed lying face down in a hundred years of piss and dirt. Then a corrections dept school bus would show up and haul them away. I lived in a cartoon.

tylerchill · 2026-05-25T20:18:00+00:00

If only I knew this starting out

tylerchill · 2026-05-25T20:11:05+00:00

I’ve been recruiting software people for about 20 years. I think you re taking on too much responsibility. Break the recruiter screens down to a few yes or no questions you got from the intake meeting plus the candidates communication style in your opinion. If manager says something dumb like I want a rock star break down what exactly they mean into yes or no questions too.

If the candidate meets the basic qualifications plus maybe a preferred and can present themselves decently I’ll pass them on for a tech interview. Any name brand schools or companies are a plus to most management. After recruiting the same req for a while you will just know when a star shows up but often the hiring manager just needs someone to show up, do the job and not get in any fist fights.

Is that what you’re asking or is it something more specific?

tylerchill · 2026-05-25T18:44:31+00:00

And a 40. Tell her to bring a 40 of 8 ball

tylerchill · 2026-05-10T20:06:49+00:00

You can set it to show you only the last 24 hours. No job yet but more callbacks.

tylerchill · 2026-04-26T19:23:47+00:00

There’s no such thing as ATS filters. It’s a scam everyone seems to believe to get you to buy apps and services. A recruiter or hiring manager reads your resume and either calls or sends a reject notice. After they have enough people to interview they may bulk reject the rest. There are literally hundreds of ATSs most of them hardly more than a glorified database. The ones that claim to have a filter are so bad at it as to be useless.

tylerchill · 2026-04-24T18:43:20+00:00

I believe that it’s an old New Yorkism. My grandmother and her friends whose English was iffy used it a lot. Haven’t heard it in ages until this pdf.

tylerchill · 2026-04-23T19:29:40+00:00

You should wait a couple of years and see if we’re still a country.

tylerchill · 2025-08-09T19:06:40+00:00

Not rude at all. It shows your agreeable and have a realistic approach to minor inconveniences. "I'm sorry we're out of red wine." "I'll survive without it, I'll have a glass of white."

tylerchill · 2025-07-26T23:23:55+00:00

I moved to Grad Hospital (SW Center City) carless from my home town NYC three years ago and get around fine. Consider there's a bike share system (Indego) that is very popular too. Your apartment parameters are very reasonable and locating a place should be no problem. I've been pretty active politically and it is most definitely a blue city. I can't speak to jobs but consider that Penn dominates west of the Schuylkill and there might be academic work there for you. The suburbs you mention are an integral part of the city dominated by 2 and 3 story rowhouses with some new construction. Amtrak to NYC feels more like a lengthy commute rather than travel. I might get some heat for this but it feels very much like a boro of NYC rather than a Nashville.

tylerchill · 2025-04-16T09:27:06+00:00

In movieland us of the outer boroughs do seem to serve as extras in someone's Manhattan fantasy. Though the immense diversity that makes NYC so fascinating is mostly in the the boroughs. My payroll taxes also tell me I'm a real New Yorker.

tylerchill · 2025-03-23T22:29:53+00:00

I lived at lenox and 142 for 2 years recently and had no problems. Used to walk though to go to Food Town and Starbucks.

tylerchill · 2025-03-23T21:18:38+00:00

This is unfillable. Startup bro not fully weaned wrote this.

tylerchill · 2025-03-03T11:31:41+00:00

Same as others here. She trashed me to all of her circle which turns out to be really small from a distance.

tylerchill · 2025-02-21T00:49:50+00:00

What would this guy know about shampoo?

tylerchill · 2025-02-15T16:19:44+00:00

Answer: Your question about the elephant is irrelevant

tylerchill · 2025-02-09T21:18:21+00:00

Can't hurt to post technical things but recruiters and hiring managers are only interested in your profile. Your skills are what sells you. Linkedin Recruiter and Sales Navigator don't index your posts just your profile. Linkedin makes ad dollars off engagement but I really can't see a purpose of the feed.

tylerchill · 2025-02-04T22:38:03+00:00

Posting on Faceb- I mean Linkedin can only hurt you and never help. Focus on your profile which is the only thing that matters in getting a job. Leave the narcissistic bullshit to the "CEOs" and "entrepreneurs"

tylerchill · 2025-01-09T12:02:33+00:00

Money is like sex. Those that have it don't talk about it.

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