• @[email protected]
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    507 months ago

    Getting a job is a lot like getting a girlfriend. Your personality matters more than your qualifications.

    • @PopOfAfrica
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      507 months ago

      This has been very difficult for my potentially autistic ass.

      • @Ibaudia
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        217 months ago

        Personality mirroring and lots of smiles 🙂

        • @PopOfAfrica
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          7 months ago

          I usually last about 6 months of masking before I break. The best job I ever had was at a college where seemingly lots of people were “different”.

          Sadly the campus closed down.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 months ago

            I’ve found that if I can mask long enough to prove my competence people overlook my being a fucking weirdo when it slips off. I do work in IT though so I’m kind of middle of the pack as far as weirdos go.

      • @[email protected]
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        157 months ago

        It can be done. I am autistic, and I’m usually able to fake it well enough to get hired by somebody. Then I try to optimize in ways that reduce the amount of effort I put in to the image.

      • @[email protected]
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        37 months ago

        I literally got my current job by going to their main office downtown and handing in my resume in person. The receptionist told me to wait for 5 minutes and then they had me do an interview the same day.