I didn’t really have anything planned for this one, so I’m going to put up something that I’d written, and didn’t publish a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
I’ve complained, perhaps incessantly, about the stupidity that is LinkedIn. After I’d bitched about LI on Twitter, they asked me for the link to his profile.\u00a0 Uhh.\u00a0 I don’t know?\u00a0 I didn’t look closely.\u00a0 He had several addresses, but\u00a0he’s been dead almost eight years.<\/strong><\/em> I didn’t really have anything planned for this one, so I’m going to put up something that I’d written, and didn’t publish a few weeks ago. I’ve complained, perhaps incessantly, about the stupidity that is LinkedIn. Late last week, I got a suggestion that I connect with my father. My dad died nearly eight years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing","tag-hot-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLate last week, I got a suggestion that I connect with my father.
\nMy dad died nearly eight years ago.<\/strong>
\nWords fail. Please, please, please shut off your email snooping, you all.
\nYes, I’ve got emails dating back years and years; it doesn’t mean that I ever<\/i> want (or can) speak to those people again.<\/strong>
\nStill, what’s happening, though, and why LinkedIn is a pond filled with just about only recruiters these days, is that companies are moving almost exclusively to having contract employees.
\nMy new role, I get, at least, paid holidays, and time off. What do I not get? The sacrosanct health insurance, and any 401K match at all.
\nYou know what, though, for most of my life, I’ve not had those things.
\nOlder politicians ran on destruction of the “gig economy”<\/a> not long ago, while people her age are working forever, and getting rich off reflated housing and equity markets.
\nSo What?<\/strong>
\nI’m going to point out what I’ve had to deal with as one of the youngest Generation Xers. You will see it on my resume, which will be as long as it needs to be to cover my varied work history. It will not be a two-page Microsoft Word 97 document<\/i>. Sorry.
\nTo the arts major recruiters, consider your favorite author. How would his\/her (yes, I know, that’s sys-gendered…..) works<\/p>\n
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\nMaybe, just maybe, you’re just a little bit fucking overzealous?\u00a0 Speaking to someone about them, he said that he actually managed to delete his account.\u00a0 If I had motivation, I might try to find a way to do that, myself.
\nI did rewrite my resume to separate out my volunteer, part-time, self-employment, and contract work.
\nKatie Recruiter, you’re quite comely in your LinkedIn profile.\u00a0 How about you read what I wrote, to find out if I’ve done the things you’re looking for.
\nEnough with that, though.\u00a0 There’s not a lot else to say, really.
\nAT the same time, I”m tiring of all this job search stuff.\u00a0 I do like where I am, what I’m doing, so why am I even thinking about anything else?
\nMaybe I’m a little flattered that I’m getting so much attention.
\nBut what’s the career equivalent of scratching my head with my sinister hand to prominently display the ring on one of the fingers?
\nWhat else could I write about…..hmmm….
\nOne of the interesting things I’ve recently heard with my marathon podcast sessions while I”m working is that this is kind of another major change in economics going on.
\nIt’s a bit like Feudalism, or the Industrial Revolution.\u00a0 You now don’t need to actually own\/horde\u00a0much of anything.<\/em>\u00a0 This is a big change from what people are accustomed to in Western societies.
\nI’m thinking of the “All I Need” scene from\u00a0The Jerk.<\/em>
\nNo, I actually don’t need much of anything, really.\u00a0 Yes, there’s a few things which have particular sentimental value, but, if I”m not going to use them anytime soon, why do I keep them?
\nI have a tuxedo, which I bought in probably 2000, because I had something like five events within about a nine-month period\u00a0 \u00a0In the *gasp*<\/em><\/strong> eighteen years ensuing, I think I’ve worn it once.
\nI’m nearly certain that it doesn’t fit anymore;\u00a0 I’m probably about 30 pounds lighter than I was when I bought it.
\nSo how much have I spent housing that?
\nThe same goes for various tools, kitchen implements, etc.
\nHow much have I spent to keep these things?
\nKind of what I”m coming to, and I’m sure my wife doesn’t agree with me on this, so there’s persuading to be done, is four tiers of things.
\nTier I:\u00a0 Immediate use\/consumables.\u00a0 This would be things like pershible food.
\nTier II:\u00a0 Mid-term.\u00a0 So foods that will store, medications, etc.\u00a0 90-day retention limit.
\nTier III:\u00a0 Most everything else.\u00a0 If you haven’t used it in a year, get rid of it.
\nTier I :\u00a0 Sentimental things.\u00a0 No time limit.
\nFinalizing this in my scarred brain, and winning others over on it….that’s going to take time.
\nI’m going to shut up now;\u00a0 it’s the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"