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Job interview tomorrow, la la la…

Dervish said Also, dress presentably. This should be painfully obvious, but the amount of idiots go go into job interviews in their street clothes is staggering. Look like you give a shit and want to convey a professional image. Clean yourself up, put on a nicely ironed dress shirt and paints, a nice pair of shoes, and act like you have a lot to offer.

This is perhaps the most common piece of advice I ever see people give.
And to add to it I say it varies on the culture of the place you're applying.

You have those really stuck up places who will turn you down just cause you weren't wearing a suit when you dropped off the resume in a mailbox (Not even say for the Interview itself). Then you have those people who may think you're trying too hard if you show up all dressed up to something like McDonald's.

Try not to push too hard in either direction.
Don't go too, pressed, ironed expensive suit so you don't throw people off or give the impression that you can't handle any dirty work (or that you're that desperate for the Job).
But do try to look professional and nice at least so people can take you seriously.

Job interview tomorrow, la la la…

Be honest.
Lying about your skills and such may be tempting, but if they learned the truth after you're hired it can end badly.

That, and try to stay calm and relaxed.
Treat it as a good opportunity rather than a worrisome moment and their impressions of you will skyrocket.

Modern Feminism

Jorick said I just have to note that I find this hilarious for obvious reasons. Moving on...

I never even caught that!

Jorick said Yup. I very much took maternity things into consideration, as that's a wholly valid and not really sexist reason for a pay gap existing. My issue is with the remaining gap that doesn't have an explanation. Also yeah, I'd be very surprised if there was no sexism involved there, but assuming that it exists without having any evidence to back it up is a bad starting point, as it makes you seek evidence to support your conclusion rather than looking at it as objectively as possible.

Agreed. The second you go out of your way to prove a certain thing, rather than to neutrally find the truth of the matter is when bias studies and results happen.
And those don't help anybody.

Jorick said Wait, what? A couple years, 2-5 years? How long do you think maternity leave actually is? In the US, the bare minimum that must be provided (given a few requirements like the employer must have over 50 employees to need to give it, and the woman has to have worked there for at least 12 months and worked for at least 1,250 hours) is 12 weeks unpaid leave. Smaller businesses aren't legally obligated to give any maternity leave, and women who haven't met those work requirements don't have to be given any maternity leave. From what little I could find on the subject (which was , and their data source was apparently the National Center for Health Statistics), the average time off actually taken for maternity things is 10 weeks. The figures they cited also said that 1/3 of women took no formal maternity leave at all and went right back to work soon after (I'm assuming this means less than a week after, given phrasing and context) giving birth, and a further 16% only took 1-4 weeks off. I would wager that the reason for this is that most people can't afford to take all the unpaid time off, so they get back to it as soon as they feel capable. Anyway, that's roughly half of working women that take less than a month off for maternity leave. It's not a matter of taking years off for the vast majority of women, it's a few months at most unless they happen to work for a company that goes above and beyond the federal requirements for maternity leave, which are apparently fairly rare.

Seriously, if it were a year or more taken off from work for each child then the wage gap would not only be explained, I would expect it to be even higher.

I was thinking in total of all children.
That plus any additional time the mother may take off on top of Maternity leave to be with the child.

Maybe I'm too used to mothers staying at home though so my estimate in how it is for a typically working mother was off. :/
But at the same time, that does help highlight the difference between men and women with staying at home or working atm.

Jorick said The only field I can think of that is truly so physically intensive that there's a solid reason for a gender pay difference even when accounting for use of machines making things easier is construction, and ironically that has one of the smallest pay gaps of all work fields (7.8% gap, subtract that 7.3% that is reasonably caused by maternity leaves, you're left with 0.5% and that's not an unreasonable difference given the nature of the work). Other work that was very physically intensive in the past, like mining and farming, now seems to be predominantly machine operated as you said, so their larger pay gaps are weird. Same goes for all the desk jobs and such, where greater average physical capabilities shouldn't be a factor at all.

I agree that it's rather complicated and would require professional assessments. The kind of general data we've been looking at only gets you so far, understanding why the pay gaps exist in particular fields of work would need some in-depth studies and such. It'd be easy to cry sexism and start bitching about it, but that would be drawing a conclusion without evidence, and doing that is just plain awful.

Agreed. I'd rather find the true issue than to just cry sexism and make a commotion out of something where there isn't one.
Or make a commotion when there's no given reason to be doing so.

To Explain Who I am..

A lot of people feel that way, so you're not alone in that.
Whatever you choose to do I wish you the best of luck.

Though... Now I think I should be sharing a bit on Gender/Sex terms I learned in my time in an LGBT group.
Note: Not trying to label anyone or tell them what they should be, just felt the need to inform people in the lingo since it didn't look like anyone here knew it yet.

Gender = Mental/Personal Identification
Sex = Biological State

So say in TheFlyingScotsman's case, her Sex would be male, but her Gender would be female. The sex being changed to female once any transsexual surgery/operation takes place, but at the moment this is a case of being Transgendered, which would change to Transsexual after said operation.

As for the Gay Man vs Straight Woman analogy?
This is a bit tricky even among LGBT communities, often times the mindset anyways though is just be who you are so I don't think which way you go here really matters either.
But I'm pretty sure your sexuality is determined by your sex at the time.

TheDookieNut said
Surprised there's been no hate. This is good

This is the Guild Forums.

If someone did start speaking up against LGBT the rest of the site would pounce on them and tear them a new one.

Rate the Signature Above You

6/10

I can always appreciate a gif, but heavy metal like that isn't my cup of tea.

What's Bothering You?

Nightrunner said
Just for some background, I'm a teenage Mexican boy who lives in America, is fifteen years old, highly analytical and sarcastic, technically a genius, allegedly rebellious, apparently suave, something of a 'hipster', and an introvert.What's bothering me is assorted girl troubles. On the one hand, I met a girl who is absolutely extraordinary. She is smart, gorgeous, fun, shares a similar background, musical taste, and social position with me. Plus, in an odd twist of fate, she and I share a name. But, I found out that she had a boyfriend after we'd been talking/flirting for two days straight 'til bed. And on top of that, she may be dying. So... there's that.And, another girl I know is smart and pretty, though she is in no way a consolation for the aforementioned girl, I do actually like her. Her friends have been trying to set me up with her for the majority of the school year and, because I'm kinda shy about genuine affection, I've never taken a chance and asked her out. After basically being cornered in class on Friday, I was pressured to 'make a move'. Apparently someone thought I already had because I heard a rumor that had went around that we had just become a couple, when ironically I was planning on asking her in the very class period I'd heard the rumor. So I held off on actually asking her for the weekend. But now I'm unsure of what my next move should be.

I could respond with the typical "Follow your heart", but I know from experience just going on your emotions alone get's you stuck in terrible situations and causes people to make mistakes far too often.

So instead I'll say "Do what you feel is right, where both your head and heart agree".
If you do something you're not happy with doing, it's going to haunt you, eat away at you and you won't be happy.
If you do something you know is entirely illogical, you're going to get in a terrible mess for not thinking thing's through clearly.

You might need to take some time to truly reflect and think about what to do.
That's fine, take your time. If the person really care's for you they'll be willing to wait.

In the end though, any choice/decision that's not your own decision is one you're going to regret doing.
So the best you can do is to think it through and evaluate the situation well enough to come to the best decision both logically and emotionally you can make for yourself.

Religion(s) and Atheism

Herzinth said
This signature is kinda ironic, all things considered.

Not really.
I'm not making a Religion out of me being God, I just am God. :P

Jannah said
I just stumbled upon . Something to ponder...

Not surprising.
In my experience of having been Religious, became atheist later in life and had the chance to be involved in both Christian and Atheist groups growing up I find many people leave their religions cause they either:

a) They morally disagree with their Religion
b) The Religion doesn't accept them

Granted, stuff like looking at science, evidence and bible contradictions also plays roles.
But many people I've talked to claimed to of left mainly for personal/moral reasons.

I guess it has largely to do with people going to Religion because it gives them some sense of happiness, acceptance and purpose. But when said Religion turns around and becomes bigoted, you start to lose the reasons you came to it and decide you're better off leaving.

In my case, when I learned stuff like "God hates Homosexuals" I remained Christian.
Just a Christian who hated God, I didn't think not liking God was a good enough reason to say he doesn't exist.
I had to be shown bible contradictions and scientific reasons God couldn't exist before I left Religion and became an atheist.

That's just how I am though, no matter how hard the truth may hurt. I'll accept it if I actually do believe it to be the truth. I won't hide from facts or life because it's inconvenient or disagree's with me. Many people though just want to surround themselves with things that makes them happy and bolsters their self-esteem and joy. So when the way their Religion act's takes that away from them... many will jump ship.

1910's prediction of 2000 vs 2000

I was expecting one of those 'flying car' prediction ones and to see how they predicted too much.
This one turned out to predict too little, interesting. :P

Esper said
That is like the sexiest Dystopian future ever.Also this must be made into a roleplay, especially the flying policemen and personal airplanes without safety equipment.

I could see it working.
It honestly reminds me a bit of what would happen if you mixed a Hayao Miyazaki movie world with a Renaissance kind of Steam Punk.

In Your FACE, Canada!!

Reason behind your username and avatar

Goldmarble said
Old identity was too 16 year old proto-emo.Couple years back, I was dragged into a local paintball team, and needed a nickname. Only paintball gun I had at the time, was rather unique: An original Tippmann 98 Special Edition in Goldmarble powdercoating. Only made in a limited run back in like, 1999-2000 or something. So, I took Goldmarble and ran with it. Been using it for pretty much everything since.Avatar? Came across the pics that the guy took of bird corpses found in Tanzania's Lake Natron, and was mildly fascinated by the posing he did with them. Suits my morbid, old, grouchy personality to some extent I'm told.

This one looks really cool to me.