I’m sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I’m not asking if it is true. I’m telling you it isn’t.
This is an Affective Death Spiral. Back away while you can!
Also, if capitalistic minds are the awful thing you described (I don’t think they are, but assuming) then the last thing you want to do is get inside their heads!
I mean it. Run, run fast, run far..…
You can live on $10.000 dollars for a year in asia, or central and south america, and a bit more money than that in Europe. Start by couchsurfing.org . We’ll talk when you are back, and we’ll take it from there! Warm regards, and please, please, run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlT6owR5Ytg&feature=related
I’m not asking if it is true. I’m telling you it isn’t. This is an Affective Death Spiral. Back away while you can!
What? I have seen this first hand. I’ve talked with people who recruit. They do it, they know other people consider it discrimination, and they do it anyway. Consider this: You JUST said you would hate to live in a world in which this is true. Might denial be affecting you? Might you be suffering from selection bias in the methods you use to tell yourself it isn’t true? If you haven’t looked for evidence supporting my conclusion, as well as evidence against, you haven’t really objectively looked at this.
I can’t say whether you’d have problems with an employment gap in any country but this one. But I can tell you most certainly do not try having an employment gap in the USA without some sort of really good plan.
if capitalistic minds are the awful thing you described … the last thing you want to do is get inside their heads!
Wrong. These guys run everything. If you don’t understand the people in power, you don’t understand your own situation.
please, please, run!
I’m here to be rational. I won’t run from information. Neither should you.
Maybe having months or even years gaps in your CV can make it harder for you to have a perfect career path. But in Brazil, it doesn’t count as something so serious. If you are graduated or if you speak English, you WILL get a job with 99% certainty -I’m not saying it will be a job you like—no matter what. If you have both, then turning your CV public will make you receive 1 to 2 job proposals a day, for 3 to 4 weeks, no matter how many gaps you have.
Jealous? Maybe diegocaleiro have a empty bedroom for rent.… Although it’s hard to believe the situation in US is that different.
It really is that different. I elaborated a bit about why I think this is true in the USA.
I’m lucky enough to have skills that are in demand, so I am not particularly jealous. My reaction is more like … I have a hard time believing that business people anywhere don’t discriminate against candidates with an employment gap. Maybe the culture is so different in other places that they really don’t. I don’t know. That’s interesting though.
Sorry for the harsh tone up there. But it just seems unbelievable that there may be a place on earth were smart educated multilingual, lesswrong-level people can’t find a job. Even if they are paraplegic, old, and didn’t work for 10 years in a row to pursue meditation in tibet.
The shock caused me to think “well, this person’s life could be immensely improved if living elsewhere, somewhere where those rules don’t apply, and people are free to come and go.”
Try to keep in mind that such places exist. Also, teaching english is somenthing most anglophones can do, anywhere in the world were it is not a first language.
That’s alright. You remind me of myself when I was younger and didn’t know these things. Your reaction was more or less how I would have reacted to the same thing.
But it just seems unbelievable that there may be a place on earth were smart educated multilingual, lesswrong-level people can’t find a job.
If they have bad social skills, a noticeable mental disorder, don’t know how to dress for an interview, forget to check the spelling in their resume, or do any number of minor things wrong when it comes to “playing the game” they may have trouble. Nothing is a silver bullet in life, not even a good mind.
The shock caused me to think “well, this person’s life could be immensely improved if living elsewhere, somewhere where those rules don’t apply, and people are free to come and go.”
Yeah, maybe. I haven’t really thought about the effects of working constantly, but I bet it would be better if I could take three month vacations. I heard Europeans take very long vacations like that and that their children don’t attend school for a full 8 hours a day. What is it like in your country?
I have thought about living somewhere other than the US, for numerous reasons, but I’m not convinced that humans are any less of a mess elsewhere.
I’m sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I’m not asking if it is true. I’m telling you it isn’t. This is an Affective Death Spiral. Back away while you can!
Also, if capitalistic minds are the awful thing you described (I don’t think they are, but assuming) then the last thing you want to do is get inside their heads! I mean it. Run, run fast, run far..…
You can live on $10.000 dollars for a year in asia, or central and south america, and a bit more money than that in Europe. Start by couchsurfing.org .
We’ll talk when you are back, and we’ll take it from there! Warm regards, and please, please, run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlT6owR5Ytg&feature=related
What? I have seen this first hand. I’ve talked with people who recruit. They do it, they know other people consider it discrimination, and they do it anyway. Consider this: You JUST said you would hate to live in a world in which this is true. Might denial be affecting you? Might you be suffering from selection bias in the methods you use to tell yourself it isn’t true? If you haven’t looked for evidence supporting my conclusion, as well as evidence against, you haven’t really objectively looked at this.
I can’t say whether you’d have problems with an employment gap in any country but this one. But I can tell you most certainly do not try having an employment gap in the USA without some sort of really good plan.
Wrong. These guys run everything. If you don’t understand the people in power, you don’t understand your own situation.
I’m here to be rational. I won’t run from information. Neither should you.
Maybe having months or even years gaps in your CV can make it harder for you to have a perfect career path. But in Brazil, it doesn’t count as something so serious. If you are graduated or if you speak English, you WILL get a job with 99% certainty -I’m not saying it will be a job you like—no matter what. If you have both, then turning your CV public will make you receive 1 to 2 job proposals a day, for 3 to 4 weeks, no matter how many gaps you have. Jealous? Maybe diegocaleiro have a empty bedroom for rent.… Although it’s hard to believe the situation in US is that different.
It really is that different. I elaborated a bit about why I think this is true in the USA.
I’m lucky enough to have skills that are in demand, so I am not particularly jealous. My reaction is more like … I have a hard time believing that business people anywhere don’t discriminate against candidates with an employment gap. Maybe the culture is so different in other places that they really don’t. I don’t know. That’s interesting though.
Sorry for the harsh tone up there. But it just seems unbelievable that there may be a place on earth were smart educated multilingual, lesswrong-level people can’t find a job. Even if they are paraplegic, old, and didn’t work for 10 years in a row to pursue meditation in tibet.
The shock caused me to think “well, this person’s life could be immensely improved if living elsewhere, somewhere where those rules don’t apply, and people are free to come and go.”
Try to keep in mind that such places exist. Also, teaching english is somenthing most anglophones can do, anywhere in the world were it is not a first language.
That’s alright. You remind me of myself when I was younger and didn’t know these things. Your reaction was more or less how I would have reacted to the same thing.
If they have bad social skills, a noticeable mental disorder, don’t know how to dress for an interview, forget to check the spelling in their resume, or do any number of minor things wrong when it comes to “playing the game” they may have trouble. Nothing is a silver bullet in life, not even a good mind.
Yeah, maybe. I haven’t really thought about the effects of working constantly, but I bet it would be better if I could take three month vacations. I heard Europeans take very long vacations like that and that their children don’t attend school for a full 8 hours a day. What is it like in your country?
I have thought about living somewhere other than the US, for numerous reasons, but I’m not convinced that humans are any less of a mess elsewhere.
I interpret joaolkf as saying that being able to speak English is sufficiently demand (relative to supply) in Brazil.