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This always seemed really weird to me, that when you apply for most jobs you have to "explain" any gap in your work history as though it's some extremely suspicious thing that you better have a good reason for. Even in normal social conversations if you say you didn't have a job for a year or whatever alot of people will be like "so what were you DOING?" Work loving sucks, is it so strange that someone would save up money to not have to for a while, or even adopt a more spartan lifestyle to avoid it? And even most of the "acceptable" excuses for not working, like higher education or a training program, are just avenues to become a worker.
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something something capitalism
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Aug 9, 2024 01:24
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Boomers, op
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I love not doing poo poo. I ate a big mushroom I found in the woods yesterday, it's almost pawpaw season and I'll be able to put back on some weight. If I don't catch a fish I can always find a turtle. I walk around in a big mosquito net and hikers think I'm a ghost
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I worked for a massive law firm that did an annual virtual meeting with the top attorneys who were going for shareholder (basically the ticket from the 1% to the .1%). They asked this one guy to explain a 20-month gap in his employment with the firm. It was because two of his kids died in a car accident. I never thought much of it before that, but yeah, "why weren't you working" is a pretty lovely and often personal question to just throw out there.
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:I love not doing poo poo. I ate a big mushroom I found in the woods yesterday, it's almost pawpaw season and I'll be able to put back on some weight. If I don't catch a fish I can always find a turtle. I walk around in a big mosquito net and hikers think I'm a ghost based
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Aug 9, 2024 02:02
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tbh the 1.5 year period where I was a jobless recluse but survived on savings is something that I sometimes look back on and miss hard it was the best and worst
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Time_pants posted:I worked for a massive law firm that did an annual virtual meeting with the top attorneys who were going for shareholder (basically the ticket from the 1% to the .1%). They asked this one guy to explain a 20-month gap in his employment with the firm. It was because two of his kids died in a car accident. exactly, what the gently caress? why is it any of your business? can i do the job or not?
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Aug 9, 2024 02:03
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pencilhands posted:This always seemed really weird to me, that when you apply for most jobs you have to "explain" any gap in your work history as though it's some extremely suspicious thing that you better have a good reason for. Even in normal social conversations if you say you didn't have a job for a year or whatever alot of people will be like "so what were you DOING?" I haven't worked since COVID first began; I'm going to have a great time explaining that I was taking care of my dying brother. I'll be able to show a little bit of income from California during that time but yeah I hope it doesn't gently caress me when I look for work again. Imagine being old, a woman, and having like a 5 or 6 year work gap at least, that's going be fun. I'll be asking Western Washington goons for help when the time comes...
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Sarah Cenia posted:tbh the 1.5 year period where I was a jobless recluse but survived on savings is something that I sometimes look back on and miss hard I think about the "high covid" period quite a bit (being in mass, everything was shut down and irregular for quite some time)and it was oddly one of my happiest and most memorable nostalgic experiences. I can't say that I would want to go back, but I'm glad it happened. I think I learned alot about myself.
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Spinz posted:I haven't worked since COVID first began; I'm going to have a great time explaining that I was taking care of my dying brother. Yeah, that's lovely as hell. I don't even know how anybody moves state. Everything seems so out of reach, and all the places I applied to that were farther than the next state over wanted me to explain why I was applying there. Because Kansas sucks. Christ, can we move the interview along?
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Aug 9, 2024 02:08
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Not working 80 hour weeks is a sin
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Buttchocks posted:Not working 80 hour weeks is a sin Call me a sinner.
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i haven’t had a single day’s gap in employment since 2006 op
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Aug 9, 2024 02:36
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I came up with this thing where I microdose being unemployed every Saturday and Sunday, which keeps me from having to be fully unemployed ever.
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Because they're usually deadbeats
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Filtering out Hitler(s)
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pencilhands posted:based I get my water from a natural spring
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Aug 9, 2024 02:47
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Every time of these threads appears, I wonder why everyone doesn't just work freelance. I've never had a full-time job in my life (on paper) and I do just fine.
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Aug 9, 2024 02:55
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I also sell tarot cards and decoctions and offer holistic counseling if anyone wants to message me about that stuff, the cards are especially potent
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Disco Godfather posted:Every time of these threads appears, I wonder why everyone doesn't just work freelance. I've never had a full-time job in my life (on paper) and I do just fine. what sort of freelance job do you have
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Aug 9, 2024 03:19
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pencilhands what if you got paid to LIFT
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A rare miss of a thread for the Pen Wizard.
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Voting 5
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istewart posted:pencilhands what if you got paid to LIFT i would love that. i used to lift as a hobby but work just takes up too much time to do a 3 day/week split and i'm doing manual labor for 40 hours a week besides.
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"I was skiing in the Alps, Chet." 
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They want to know if you were in prison or doing stuff that would put you in prison.
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emptyspace posted:They want to know if you were in prison or doing stuff that would put you in prison. How would working keep you from doing stuff that would put you in prison? In many cases they're one and the same.
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Literally A Person posted:A rare miss of a thread for the Pen Wizard. Honestly this is probably his best thread if he's thinking post resource scarcity but that's not likely to happen
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Aug 9, 2024 04:34
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how long is your employment gap? no one cares about a few months of unemployment
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Vegetable posted:how long is your employment gap? no one cares about a few months of unemployment Pencilhands has never been employed
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Aug 9, 2024 04:56
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It's insanely stupid as poo poo OP
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Aesop Poprock posted:Honestly this is probably his best thread if he's thinking post resource scarcity but that's not likely to happen I....uh........ no
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Oh I was working all that time. Working on myself, Mr. Employer. I was working on myself.
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just look up a company that collapsed during your employment gap and say you worked for them op there's no way they can check you on it, bing bong so simple
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My speculation, in the rare cases HR is actually smart enough to have thought about why they're asking the question: It indicates you can sustain yourself at least for a year or two and that you're not socially conditioned to desperately climb the greasy pole until you drop. Who's to say you won't ditch them someday? Maybe you'd have the guts to quit if they really screwed you over? Bad drone material!
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Aug 9, 2024 08:37
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the gaps on my resume are the only times I was ever even close to happiness
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I once went three years without working. Boy, was I glad to be able to work again, because that essentially fast-tracked me into being able to be a permanent resident. But I do agree with the OP that it is bullshit most of the time.
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I once explained a gap on my resume as taking care of my dying father for like 14 months and they legit rolled their eyes lol, living in hell rules.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I once explained a gap on my resume as taking care of my dying father for like 14 months and they legit rolled their eyes lol, living in hell rules. Honestly that was a pretty good excuse regardless of whether it was true or not those guys must have been assholes
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