I’m more of an embracist. I live in a house on top of a hill, top floor with beautiful view on the surrounding houses and nature. I use modern tech, if it helps to improve my live and its enjoyment. I invest in a cleaner, fairer world by being politically active and my vote. I occasionally do visit caves, for instance to learn more about neolithic man, indeed Learning new stuff about the surrounding world brings me great joy. Basically i love to interact with my fellow humans.
I’m guessing this notion came about from the Baptist and evangelical folks, who indeed try to reduce the frequency of bodily functions, as they see those as sin. As a result, Lutherans and the like indeed only do number twos every couple of weeks. But the rest of Americans (the silent minority), who live on a diet of fiber free fast food, sodas and watery beer, open the diarrhea valve at least twice a day. Only in America!
Absolutely no deal breaker. I am just interested to learn about the person in front of me (hopefully the candidate does the same about my company or me, after all, the candidate shouldn’t start working for a manager that they later find out they don’t like). If you’re not on social media, I won’t judge that, in fact if you do it for conscientious or fact-based reasons I even appreciate it. But if you are on social media and you have a beautiful CV on LinkedIn it can be a little plus, getting into weird political discussions on insta is definitely a minus; I need fact-focused employees that can see both sides of the medal, willing to (unemotionally) find middle ground.
The CV and application letter are still the key thing. In the application letter, you need to address the needs that I have put into the job posting, the more fact-based and interesting the better. Adjust the cv so that it fits the actual job description, don’t use some outdated listing that you’ve been using the last two years, try to show that you take me seriously.
I’ve hired dozens of people and I’ve interviewed hundreds. As a manager (area of business development), my objective is simple: get the interviewee talking. I know their CV and have checked their social media; I know my favorite candidates. I just want to check whether I “like the person”, and whether she/he is as good in real life as on paper. My typical interviews run like this: “first, I will tell you about the position for a few minutes, then you will have time to tell me about yourself, and to ask YOUR questions. And then we talk about possible next steps. This will take about 30 minutes. Is that OK?”
I try to get onto an equal footing, and although I will ask simple questions here and there, I skip all the humbug, curve ball, aggressive stuff (they probably have pre-prepared answers to those anyway). By laying out the interview plan first, good candidates have sufficient time to prepare their story and clever questions in their head while I make the company pitch.
You are completely right. It is a bit of whataboutery, but ok. Still, next to reducing buying stuff that is packed onto these container ships and then shipped across the oceans, it is worthwhile thinking about tourism too, which doesn’t stop at cruise ships (which personally I would never board). So reduce the number flights you take, switch to vacations by train, bike or on foot, switch from a combustion engine to an EV etc. I regularly calculate my personal climate footprint (there are a number of websites that help you doing this, most call out cruise ships specifically), and over the years I have continuously improved my behaviors. Added advantage: I won’t catch hanta virus locked up with thousands of others on a cruise ship😝
Yes, but not in a sense you may think. Tourists get on board of these cruise ships that sail to Antarctica, to witness the devastating effects of climate change, and to get a final glimpse of a disappearing ecosystem. Ironically, Cruise ships are a big producer of carbon dioxide, which is the gas that causes climate change. Even more ironic: Climate change in return is one of the causes for outbreaks like the hanta virus. Humanity is doomed, but climate collapse does have its funny moments.
That happend to me, I studeid Englis literachure and endid up as a Highscool techer. But I failed severel coursis in Highscool myself, but dew to an administrativ eror, this went unnoticed for a long tyme… untill I met my old techer agen. She sed she had reportid me, but the skool didn’t take any action!
If you consider that humanity will have a great set-back within 200 years, throwing is back into the middle ages or oblivion, yes, those sites will disappear.
I’m more of an embracist. I live in a house on top of a hill, top floor with beautiful view on the surrounding houses and nature. I use modern tech, if it helps to improve my live and its enjoyment. I invest in a cleaner, fairer world by being politically active and my vote. I occasionally do visit caves, for instance to learn more about neolithic man, indeed Learning new stuff about the surrounding world brings me great joy. Basically i love to interact with my fellow humans.