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On Know Your Farmer
@jillcool I grew up in a small town surrounded by farms, and while I would never, ever go back, it's still a huge part of my identity and something I end up defending and clarifying and debunking, like, all the damn time.
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On I Spend a Lot of Time Thinking About Hair Removal What About You
Do you ever have a few days of underarm stubble and then wear a new tshirt? Oh my goodness, it's like Elmer's Glue and glitter.
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On Chatting With My Parents About How (And Why) They Paid For My College Education
"I imagine a lot of people don’t understand that, that each school makes its decision." What? Good lord, I hope they understand that.
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On I Made $570K Last Year, But I Don't Feel Rich (In Fact, I Feel Worried)
@Titania I love what you say to all your students and should in fact say it to myself a lot.
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On I Made $570K Last Year, But I Don't Feel Rich (In Fact, I Feel Worried)
Let's just settle the thing -- here's a list of 2012 and 2013 cars between $31,000 and $32,600 MSRP (starting price only!): BMW 1-series Volvo S60 Acura TSX Toyota 4Runner Buick LaCrosse Chevy Silverado Nissan NV200 Hyundai Azera Lexus CT 200h GMC Sierra 1500 Nissah 370Z Nissan Maxima Audi A4 BMW 3-Series Toyota's top-of-the-line sedan, the Avalon, is $30,990 MSRP.
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On How to Make a LinkedIn Profile That Will Actually Help You Get a Job
@rorow I'm about to start grad school in a field where it does make sense to use LinkedIn, so it's not like I'm opposed -- but I do think, as my original comment said (and no more), that the tone of this piece is grating and out of place.
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On How to Make a LinkedIn Profile That Will Actually Help You Get a Job
@rorow It's funny that you chose my comment to reply to. Oh well, let's do this! I'm hanging on for dear life to the job I have and love, which is part of a rapidly downsizing company and industry. The aggressive joinerism of LinkedIn participants is hugely distasteful to me. If your industry relies on it, great, but stop acting like it's a bafflement why one solution does not suit everyone across all fields. Literally no one I know has ever said anything about LinkedIn other than that they barely look at theirs and think it's strangely lurky and predatory there. Opting out doesn't mean people are ignorant.
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On How to Make a LinkedIn Profile That Will Actually Help You Get a Job
The tone of this piece makes me so glad this is not the tone of everything else on the Billfold. Ha ha ha, the writer works as a recruiter, you don't say! Ha ha ha, the commenter who's rah-rahing it down here is a volunteer LinkedIn consultant or something, you don't say!
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On How to Make a LinkedIn Profile That Will Actually Help You Get a Job
@stuffisthings You . . . are the best.
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On The Open-plan Office
I think open office plans are like diets though. Where everyone is like, No, I understand that they don't work, but they do work for ME.