I’ve got an interview to help teach AI how to better identify errors in text like news and stuff as a work-from-home journalist/writer consultant. I’d be making between $90-140/hr.

(10-23-2026 11:38 PM)Todor Wrote:  

(10-23-2026 04:35 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  So a guy claims he has applied for over 79 jobs month for the last 29 months.
That’s applying for 4 jobs a day every workday for over two years.
That doesn’t pass the sniff test by itself.

He doesn’t say if he’s interviewing or just sending a resume in after applying.

I don’t know anything about the guy, haven’t seen his resume and I already see a couple of red flags.

1. He’s 30 and lives with his Mommy and Daddy. Seriously… go to McDonalds, and a couple of other fast food places, get two or three jobs so you can be out on your own. That reason alone makes me question his drive for success. I see it as a guy who thinks working 2 or 3 jobs is beneath him because of his education. That says he’s lazy.

2. Bet he has the Nobel citation on his resume. Who in manufacturing sciences like pharma or the chemical industry is going to waste their time with someone like that. If I could give him any advice, I would tell him to scrub that Nobel reference from his resume. With the costs of onboarding a new employee, many companies are reluctant to hire someone who’s education isn’t in the same field as the company’s primary focus. Speaking from experience, the guy is over-educated.

I feel sorry for him. He bought the lie.

Agreed. A more applied type of CV that lists the specific skills he brings, of what he can do for a company on a practical, day to day basis.

His resume should focus on industry, not prestige, not awards, and appear removed from the hallowed halls of academia where theory can trump application. Generally speaking at least, without knowing what he’s even applying for.

I also suspect he’s sending out standard resumes and expecting Princeton to open the door for him, when he should be spending more time tailoring each application specifically and putting time into showing exactly how what he offers matches what they need and solves a problem they have.

Well said…
It’s a shame the poor guy doesn’t have someone with real-world experience in his life.

Wow. He studied how ice forms. Very impressive.

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Like others, a red flag arose when I read the story. Something is missing but nothing gets in the way of a juicy story.

(10-24-2026 02:39 PM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  Like others, a red flag arose when I read the story. Something is missing but nothing gets in the way of a juicy story.

which is what makes it amusing from the /sarc perspective ... this isn't news ... this is soap opera bs...

can't figgle out why I never watch that crap ... it's bad enough sifting thru all the emo hock-a-hooey from the 'news sites'...

My brother is a sales engineer in the oil business. He is a smart guy and personable, but his only degree is in communications. He is not an engineer nor did he graduate from a prestigious university.

So how did he land a job with benefits and six figure income? The answer is he built his resume from the ground up and exchanged experience for status and low pay, was willing to move to forsaken parts of Texas, travels extensively, and is available virtually 24/7. He got his hand dirty - literally. He works with rough sorts of people. In other words, he does what it takes.

Will the person profiled in the article do what it takes or is it beneath him?

I might be wrong, but it seems the unemployed man could generate $400 per month (minimum) donating plasma two times per week. Easy money. And he would be doing something positive for society.

(10-24-2026 03:33 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I might be wrong, but it seems the unemployed man could generate $400 per month (minimum) donating plasma two times per week. Easy money. And he would be doing something positive for society.

um...just please don't let him donate his lil' swimmers....

(10-24-2026 12:16 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Not sad to me.

Learn to code

I came here to post this.

(10-24-2026 03:33 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I might be wrong, but it seems the unemployed man could generate $400 per month (minimum) donating plasma two times per week. Easy money. And he would be doing something positive for society.

He could also learn to, um, "pleasure" male horses so they can artificially inseminate the female horses. (Or do the same thing, but with male and female cows.) lol

Why did I put that? lol

(10-24-2026 09:33 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 03:33 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I might be wrong, but it seems the unemployed man could generate $400 per month (minimum) donating plasma two times per week. Easy money. And he would be doing something positive for society.

He could also learn to, um, "pleasure" male horses so they can artificially inseminate the female horses. (Or do the same thing, but with male and female cows.) lol

Why did I put that? lol

you shouldn'ta oughta said that....

(10-24-2026 09:37 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 09:33 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 03:33 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  I might be wrong, but it seems the unemployed man could generate $400 per month (minimum) donating plasma two times per week. Easy money. And he would be doing something positive for society.

He could also learn to, um, "pleasure" male horses so they can artificially inseminate the female horses. (Or do the same thing, but with male and female cows.) lol

Why did I put that? lol

you shouldn'ta oughta said that....

Oh, I was thinking of a scene from Clerks. lol

(10-24-2026 09:38 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Oh, I was thinking of a scene from Clerks. lol

Artiste: Supernova
Album: Clerks: Music from the Motion Picture
Song: "Chewbacca"
Songwriters: Art Mitchell, Hayden Thais, Dave Collins
October 11, 1994 Chaos Records/Columbia Records

If I dream about milkmaids, I'll blame... myself. lol

....we need to stop....

I didn’t want to say that

(10-24-2026 10:00 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  ....we need to stop....

At the... Quik-Stop Grocery? lol

You're right. We do. Anyway, Mr. Weiss could always go to work at a convenience store. That sounds fun.

(10-23-2026 03:27 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  Maybe the man has major personality flaws and unwittingly makes folks uncomfortable when he is being interviewed.

It has to be something like this.

He could be like Jerry of Boston Legal fame.

Regardless, 2,300 job applications ... that is staggering.

2300?!?

Isn’t that the tell?

Could, likely, be OCD or some “get this guy away from me” thing.

Hell, even his own parents stuffed him in the basement or something, right?

He’ll be in a cabin in Montana soon enough, reading bomb making books…

Sounds very familiar.

(10-24-2026 09:31 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 12:16 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Not sad to me.

Learn to code

I came here to post this.

Or learn to use AI to have it code for you.

Man, it is such a productivity enhancer!

(10-25-2026 01:24 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 09:31 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(10-24-2026 12:16 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Not sad to me.

Learn to code

I came here to post this.

Or learn to use AI to have it code for you.

Man, it is such a productivity enhancer!

I’m a believer! It’s like having a super fast junior programmer I pay 5 cents an hour.