How do you deal with procrastination?

How do you deal with procrastination? Jul 25, 2018 4:37:36 GMT

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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jul 25, 2018 4:37:36 GMT

Jul 25, 2018 3:00:25 GMT dirtypillows said:

Jul 24, 2018 13:30:39 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Wow Mr. Dirty! Your perceptive insights into the phony and unctuous aspects behind a cover letter is spot on and how I have always felt about them. I just never thought to express them, or even had the opportunity to say what I feel about them. It is just unfortunately part of the corporate game though. Corporations are ruling the world's economy and it filters down to the entire world. This only proves how fake and insincere things really are.

A resume with your experience and skills should be more than enough and then in spite of feeling like one is in front of a firing squad during the interview process, common sense and rationale from the employer need only take place. Not everything has to be treated like it's some big CEO top job and full of it's own arrogance, egoism, self-importance and patting each other on the back with how professional they only believe they are.

Thank you, Toasted Cheese. It's a great comfort to know that I'm not the only one with the same take on the cover letter, and job interviews. I wish I could give you a big hug.

Yes, a resume should be absolutely sufficient. Nothing less and nothing more. When did the "cover letter" even become a thing? I've heard people say the cover letter is where "you really get to sell yourself"... Sheesh... I'm probably about as transparent as it gets ("I'm totally a team player and I will bring positive results to your company and get the job done. I give 110% to everything I do and never leave any customer without total satisfaction!" Loathesome...), and the whole premise of the cover letter just makes my blood run cold. There's nothing about me that is equal to the effective cover letter/interview.

Your firing squad analogy is bloody perfect.

We live in a competitive and chaotic dog eat dog world. Some people are just better at playing the game than others and some may not have the acumen or even ability and desire\drive to play it. We can't be too precious with ourselves though, because we might end up not coping and end up in the nuthouse, but I feel there is way too much societal pressure put on people to act and be a certain something, when this something is only a forced and deluded ideal of who we really are.

I can have a competitive streak, but it's not something that I am overly proud of and I suppose it is just a defense mechanism or survival technique, and like you, I have never cared for boring sports. And to hell with that nonsense that it can build character and teach one about being a team player. I am and do both these things, without the aggressive and egoistic need to walk all over others, and get to the top. Heck, over 20yrs ago, one work colleague of mine started to become a real prick and jerk and he even told me you have to be a k<>t to get somewhere. Sheesh! If this the attitude that society is breeding and promoting, no wonder that the entire system is f<>ked up.