Got a job interview coming up and they are looking for a brief sales pitch type thing where I describe a problem, solve it, then persuade why my resolution is best. I can’t really wrap my head around a good starting point. Any ideas? It’s IT centric for what it’s worth. Help me get out of my current BS job by getting into a slightly less BS job!
Just wondering.
I would post the conversation but I'm not allowed because it's not Sunday. I literally told the recruiter that between 9:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. is only reserved for people who are dying or dead for someone to call me. This is not the first time this recruiter has done this to me in the past 2 years. He has a history of texting me at inappropriate hours. Last time he was texting me at 4:00 and 5:00 in the morning. Edit just so you know this recruiter is in my same area in my same time zone so there is no discrepancy on what time he is calling me
“I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up – man, we're going to be something!”
The industry that I work in (landscape architecture) is toxic as well as its adjacent industries like architecture, construction, etc. It’s become normalized to work over 40+ a week as salaried positions. Every place that I’ve interviewed for and worked at has completely normalized working long hours UNPAID. When I’ve tried talking to colleagues about it, everyone just shrugs it off as being apart of our profession. I’m getting very discouraged in finding a decent firm that actually lets people get off of work at 40 hours. I’ve been told and have seen that if you do not put more than 40 hours, you’ll basically face unemployment. I don’t want to have to suck it up and work 50+ hours a week just because it’s the norm. I don’t even know where to start with fighting this.
So this is something I’d literally had a text convo with my store manager over today. Of course he wanted me in earlier than I was scheduled (outside my availability but not relevant) and I agreed to do it. Then I got around to asking about my annual review and I’m basically told that since I’m neither full nor new, I’m not entitled to one. He told me we would discuss it when I came in after I pointed out that this wasn’t true and I’d never heard of that. I’ve been there long enough to know that it is donkey-dickshit. I read the handbook they gave me in 2020 and the section regarding this. So unless this is a new policy they never bothered communicating, I smell trouble out at sea. This just adds to the bullshit I’ve put up with from them this year and I’m ready to…