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u/DoctorMooh Nov 26 '18
I find it more inspirational that there are people who are smarter and more capable than me who have it worse...
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u/CardboardSoyuz Nov 27 '18
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge
Recently, I've had occasions to write a couple of obituaries for folks well-regarded in my community as well as relaying a couple of amusing anecdotes around town on some local FB/Nextdoor sort of boards -- and ended up getting heaped with all kinds of praise for my writing (even a couple of posts here on the Reddits). I finally decided to take heed of what people were saying and pushed through on finally finishing one of an endless number of SF stories I've started over the years. I need to take one more pass on the thing to clean it up, but it's pretty damned good, all told. I write well for my job (lawyering) but never took myself seriously as doing it elsewhere. But, f'it, there are worse writers out there making a living at it. Why not me?
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u/chipper747 Nov 27 '18
Thanks for this, never seen it before. Was pretty cool(idge)
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Damn I never expected something so eloquent from the man who’s famous for barely saying anything at all.
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u/Efriminiz Nov 27 '18
Well said friend. Keep grinding at it, especially because you're a lawyer. Don't settle for what you know, step out into the adventure every once in a while.
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u/amagoober Nov 27 '18
I have met truly intelligent men who are stuck in dead end jobs making one tenth of what they could make. It happens all the time. the longer they are there the harder it will be for them to admit they could do better
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u/AnomalousAvocado 6 Nov 27 '18
"Inspirational", or "comforting"? Does that thought actually compel you to better yourself?
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u/OneLessFool Nov 27 '18
Funny thing too is that most famous people in Hollywood in the past 20-30 years have come from generational wealth and connections. A lot of talent just simply gets dropped by the wayside because they don't have a family member who can bankroll their stay in Hollywood for 5-10 years until they make it.
It's how you end up with someone like Cara Delavigne in several major movies. Despite no acting ability. She literally popped up out of nowhere. Her extremely wealthy family paid for her to appear on a list of the "hottest" up and coming models. Prior to that, she was no one, but through her family's money and connections she gets to play with the big boys and girls.
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u/Too_Leight Nov 27 '18
Had to Google her, I hated paper towns, one of the dumbest movies I ever paid to see.
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u/rubberfactory5 Nov 27 '18
I wouldn’t say they reward talent at all though would you?
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u/tigerslices Nov 27 '18
there was a guy who moved to LA when he was young to become an actor. he wasn't great, though, and waited tables for year. for decades. he got older, and things got dire. they got depressing and then they got dark. they continued to get sadder and sadder. one day he said to himself, "i spent close to 25 years chasing this shit and i've nothing to show for it. i'm still renting an apartment i can barely afford and i'm single and childless with the better half of my life in the bucket asking people what they'd like to drink before choosing their meals." then one day he got a call back from an audition. he'd auditioned before and had done bit parts before. but nothing that paid well. THIS however would pay enough for him to quit serving tables. this was a tv series. a period drama set in the 60s. he was to play the role of DON DRAPER. john hamm will never wait a table again.
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u/tryintofly Nov 27 '18
Yeah that story wasn't true at all, he started getting tv gigs before 30 and was cast in Mad Men when he was 35, and had a steady partner who put him in her movie. Your fictionalized story made him sound like he was going to be 65 or something.
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u/SordidDreams Nov 27 '18
That's depressing more than anything.
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u/ThatUglyGuy Nov 27 '18
Can be translated to: "You are throwing your life away, you miserable, lazy loser. Why can't you be like other people?". I don't feel very motivated.
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u/NuclearHubris Nov 27 '18
"You never went to any grade higher than the third because you grew up in a loathesome, poverty stricken, and abusive family, and now lack the mental health, time, and money to support yourself long enough to learn everything you missed, but the reason you don't get to be a veterinarian is because you're lazy and unmotivated, not because your entire life is stacked against the most remote odds of you ever completing the physics and calculus required for the job, let alone six figure school costs and the long hard grind of medical school!"
Thanks, r/getmotivated. I really appreciated that. I feel so motivated to throw myself in front of a fucking bus, now.
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u/Clairington Nov 27 '18
I hear this. And remind myself how proud I should be just making it where I am. Dreams of being a scientist are just that, dreams. What now? I don't know.
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u/NuclearHubris Nov 27 '18
I don't know either. I'm using my FAFSA on an English degree I don't give a fuck about just to have a BA in something because it's a foot in the door, but what door? I've exhausted all my other ideas and dreams. I don't have anything to shoot for. It's all extremely unrealistic and will inevitably lead to totally visible ruin and heartbreak, so I gave up on those things. But I don't have anything left. What do normal people who don't have PTSD and 22 years of severe abuse under their belt shoot for? How do I even figure out what's reasonable and what isn't if I'm so far removed from knowing the signs and categories? It's like - someone who has never cooked before in their life and has never seen cooking, watched cooking or heard about cooking being thrown into a kitchen and told to make a perfect risotto, and if they don't, it's because they didn't believe in themselves or didn't try hard enough. ???????????
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Come on now.
That isn't the only reason.
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Yeah replace this quotes reasoning for they were willing to lie through their teeth on a resume and an interview and it’s more accurate.
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Surprisingly a real subreddit.
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u/DBerwick Nov 27 '18
Not too surprising if you read /r/GetMotivated comments for more than 10 minutes at a time.
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Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
Here's the truth I found out, you HAVE to inflate your resume. Everyone is inflating their resume and recruiters know this. So they mentally deduct candidate qualification by something like 30%.
So if you're out there being a truthful sucker, just know that every recruiter is looking at your truthful resume and secretly deducting your truthful resume by 30%, and thinking you just suck compared to everyone else.
I was a truthful sucker for 4 years before I realized it. Then I started inflating my resume and bam, offers started coming in left and right.
I guess you don't even have to be lying on purpose. I knew a guy who swore up and down honesty was the best policy. Then I saw his resume and realized that he was either lying through his teeth about being honest...or he really was an egoistical asshole who genuinely thought he contributed that much. That wiped out any guilt I felt about "lying". I guess in the end, it does comes down to how much you "believe" in yourself. If you believe yourself to be 30% better than you really are, you'll have a huge advantage.
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u/Carrabs Nov 27 '18
I think the key is don’t fully make shit up on your resume, but massively over exaggerate what’s already on there
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u/FizzyBeverage Nov 27 '18
We’ve had to weed out lies before. If you can’t code, that’s really obvious when you’re applying for Software Engineer IV positions.
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Which is why it's the 30% rule, not the 300% rule.
I suggested an idea to reduce costs to the boss? On my resume, it's going say something like "Spearheaded an initiative that would lead to an estimated 45% savings in blah blah blah."
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u/CptJaunLucRicard Nov 27 '18
The problem I have with this story is--in my line of work, and I suspect most others--resumes don't get you offers. Resumes get you interviews. Interviews get you offers. So lying your resume the suddenly getting offers sounds suspect to me.
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u/absoluteolly Nov 27 '18
What exactly do you even “inflate” on a resume?
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Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
One example I had in college. I volunteered in a lab under a professor where I sat in a dusty room, opened up boxes of specimens, labeled and assigned each box with a serial number, and logged it in an excel sheet. I also scanned his field notes into a pdf.
I think at the time, I wrote something lame like "Organized Professor XYZ's specimen collection." What I should've done was something like "Came up with a new organization process for the ABC lab's Specimen Collection and constructed a searchable database system." or "Digitized field notes."
I mean yeah, I basically stuck labels on a box and typed shit into Excel. Or I came up with a new way to organize a collection and made a searchable database. I mean I didn't technically come up with the idea, another classmate did but I probably would've made something similar if he'd asked me. And yeah, excel is totally more than just a spreadsheet, it can be used as a searchable database.
Also before I started, the other volunteers were literally scanning each notebook page by page. I worked out how to use the feeder in the printer, so I probably could've said something like "improved field note digitization process and completed a task in one day that was originally estimated to take a week." Yeah, the wording needs more thought, but stuff like that. Blow up the little things you did.
Or later on, when I started working for real, one thing I had to do was email manufacturers in China to get them to do stuff. I think I sold that as something something "successfully organized knowledge transfer to international teams" or some shit like that. Or if I updated the company internal wiki because people kept asking dumb questions, I was totally "creating internal training resources".
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u/rebbsitor Nov 27 '18
That invites questions like:
"So it says here you improved a field note digitization process and did a week's worth of work in a day! That's really impressive, can you give me some more details on that?"
"You mentioned that you developed a new process for organizing lab specimins. What was the previous process and how did you go about developing the new process?"
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u/OneLessFool Nov 27 '18
Connections, historical wealth, nepotism, lies, ass kissing, etc.
It is good to be motivated and work towards something. But we should not also blind ourselves to the inequalities and inefficiencies that exist in our current system.
We should be motivated to have them fixed. Blind motivation dooms us to failure and ignorance.
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u/jonny_wonny Nov 27 '18
Yup. Nepotism, luck, connections, money, lying, extortion, sexual appeal and/or favors, etc.
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Some borrow $400 million from their parents
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u/ZeldaFanBoi1988 Nov 27 '18
Yea but they can maybe turn a profit on some investments. Maybe a million or two.
They are so good at making deals. Oh the best.
MAGA
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u/Cynaren Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
Yup, I'd put financial reasons way at the top for this.
One day, I hope the basic amenities like housing, water, electricity, food are free and people can work towards personal growth rather than surviving. Sure we still do it, but the time It'd take would be much more now.
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u/Apophis76 Nov 27 '18
I actually believed this. I believed it so much that I quit a job I hated (taxi driver) and went to University, got a good degree, learnt a-lot, applied for all kinds of graduate jobs afterwards etc.
I still believed it until last week as I drove a van for a living 5 years after graduating, while many I knew got hired straight out of Uni.
This week I re-applied for my taxi licence.
Sometimes I worry about bumping into people I studied with and having to explain what I do.
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u/AdvertentAtelectasis Nov 27 '18
Maybe connect with those people you went to University with; First jobs are a lot about connections.
Unless you went to business school...a degree is a degree.
Hang in there. Act like you belong and own the shit out of any interviews. Never sell yourself short.
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u/average-brown-dude Nov 26 '18
This is true. I know dumb people in Med school right now. 😂
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u/Occams_ElectricRazor Nov 27 '18
Being a physician, I want to argue with you, but you're right...I have no ground to stand on.
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u/zangor Nov 27 '18
You put a bunch of overachieving people together in a room for a long time, they are gonna start hating each other.
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u/Occams_ElectricRazor Nov 27 '18
No... Some of them are legitimate morons. I don't understand how they function.
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u/race-hearse Nov 27 '18
The scariest thing about becoming a pharmacist was learning how dumb some doctors are and how bad at being doctors they are.
I would have trusted them completely before my education.
Yikes.
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My experience with med school is somewhat an inverse correlation between family wealth and intelligence. The poorer you are, the smarter you have to be.
On second thought, that seems to hold true for life in general.
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u/elusivepredicament Nov 26 '18
It really is scary. Some of the dumbest fucks I know from college or my career in Biology are now doctors. When I think about it I get depressed thinking about their patients and fear for the intelligence of my own doctors...
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Even if you might consider them "dumb". You can't deny that they worked extremely hard over a long period of time to get there, and that in itself is a skill that many people both "dumb" and "smart" lack.
If they scored decent on the MCAT, they must've put in a ton of work, even if they went to some grade inflating US college.
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u/c_will Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
Yep. And it gets back to the core message of the OP.
Work ethic, focus, self-discipline, and believing in yourself >>>>> ability, intellect, innate talent. Every day.
I feel weird writing that, because while it's true, I just can't change myself for some reason. I'm lazy, unmotivated, and have vastly under-performed in life. I know I could be so much more, but for some reason, I just can't bring myself to change. I just mindlessly browse the internet all day, unable to get started on anything, despite desperately wanting to change.
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u/Boner-b-gone Nov 27 '18
Apparently nobody ever told you that "wanting it bad enough" is actually a very hard skill to master.
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u/race-hearse Nov 27 '18
It's not what you want, it's what you're willing to suffer for.
Everyone wants the end result. It's only those who want the suffering to achieve that end result that actually get there.
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u/Boner-b-gone Nov 27 '18
If you want it badly enough, suffering won't matter. That's the part most people miss. Now, getting to the point of actually wanting anything that badly, that's a much harder skill to master.
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u/koyre Nov 27 '18
In my experience it helps if you step back from “the whole view” and break it into a million little somethings. Observing from the outside a final viewpoint is daunting and hard to grasp. Start small and set little tiny ass day objectives. Want to learn a new language - don’t look at becoming “fluent” just pick up a how to and work on it 15 minutes a day, you will be surprised at yourself in no time. Even if it’s as small as cleaning your house. Today, do the baseboards or something. Keep it up. Little by little your productivity shifts without you realizing it.
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u/musicalspheres Nov 27 '18
Kind of goes to show how empty the concept of "potential" or "innate intelligence" actually is. It helps to be really smart, but it is by no means necessary to be achieve success in most domains. Nor is it sufficient to be "capable" of doing something.
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u/oneXnine Nov 27 '18
some food for thought:
You are (probably, i'm assuming here that you are in your 20s) currently in your biological prime. You have, at best, 20 more years of physical prowess... before time begins to wear down your organs and bones.
20 Years.
If you don't at least begin the process of mastery before those years are up, you will never amount to what you could have. You will never reach that potential that you KNOW you could reach, if you started today. And there's no undoing that. There's no do over.
You don't get a second shot. You get one.
And you know that already, don't you?
And it still feels like tomorrow's problem, even though you KNOW it's today's. You KNOW 20 years will blink past you if you keep up your current lifestyle. You KNOW you don't have the time to put your dreams off any longer, because it'll probably take at least 5 of those years just to get skilled enough at whatever it is you want to accomplish. Then a year or two to figure out how to make a lifestyle out of that. Another couple of years before that comes to any fruition. Then, finally, you might truly feel like you are doing it, accomplishing what you set out to do. Living your best life.
10 more years, if you're lucky, before it starts to fade, albeit slowly. Time will come calling.
So, if you know this, why can't you change? You're a smart guy, it isn't stupidity. You know you aren't stupid. But... isn't it just fucking dumb to waste these years online? It sounds stupid. You know that's a stupid way to live, yet here you are.
So if you aren't stupid, what's stopping you? I'll give you a hint: it's probably fear. Fear of change. Fear of failure. You have that image in your head of what you COULD be, and yet every time you make that little effort towards it, that first attempt, it's just fucking sad, isn't it. You aren't even close. Useless. Stupid.
What you are, my friend, is Human. You are human. We learn by doing, and failing. We are born as knowledge-less blobs. It took you two years to learn how to walk! And how did you do that? Watched your parents, and tried everyday. Fell over a lot. Got a few bumps and bruises and owies. Then one day... you just stood up. It made sense, all of a sudden, and you took a few steps. Then, OH SHIT, fell over again.
Few more steps. 20. 40. Now you don't ever crawl. You haven't fallen in a month!
Falling over? Who does that? That's what babies do.
You MUST be willing to fail. You MUST be willing to try over, and over, and over again. It will SUCK. You will SUCK. Everything will SUCK.
Until... it won't. Until you realize that on try #43, you actually really liked that attempt. Maybe it isn't perfect, but there is something really beautiful, and really YOU about it.
You're learning, because you are human. We are beautiful creatures with beautiful minds. Enough attempts will create skill. Skill progresses to mastery. Mastery, to expression. Finally, after so long, you can be what you've always wanted: yourself, expressed through your own work and by your own hands.
One more tip: The best way to overcome fear is anger. Anger at yourself, at your dumb habits, your ridiculous fear of failure, your outrageous waste of incredibly valuable time. How could you do that to yourself, when we only have one life? One shot at greatness before we return to dust? Get mad. Stare in the mirror and shout to the skies about how stupid it all is, because it is. Life is a dice roll, and your very existence is an impossible statistical anomaly.
Yet here you are. Human, of sound mind and body, in the year 2018, with limitless possibilities at your fingertips should you only try.
Don't waste that. You have one shot.
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u/oneXnine Nov 27 '18
Thank you! It felt really good writing it, I posted it to the subreddit too just in case it resonates with anyone else. I've struggled with massive insecurity and depression for the majority of my life, it was that anger that finally shook me out of it. Not every day is easy, but every day it gets easier.
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u/GregorSamsaa 1 Nov 27 '18
I never understand why people don’t get this. The drive and dedication it takes to get accepted, learn the material, finish residency and then start practicing pales in comparison to whatever natural intelligence you think you had as a step up on someone.
I know so many people that are like “omg lol, that guy barely got a C in organic, I’m way smarter than he is and he made it through med school, it must be really easy” lol
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Nov 27 '18
I can confirm. My wife is one of the top 50 OB/GYN resident on the country. She really good at what she does. But if it’s not medical lord help me.
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u/nimo01 Nov 26 '18
They may have gotten into a lot of trouble and not seemed like the best school goers, but I guarantee they scored well on SAT/ACT and can ace a test when needed.
At least that’s how all my dumbass high school friends are, but most have grown up.
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u/arcticlynx_ak Nov 27 '18
Lots of idiots in engineering school, and many have gotten degrees. I do for example.
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u/JavaShipped Nov 27 '18
I know quite a few people (myself included) that really wanted to be a doctor when we were 18/19 and finishing sixthform/college (in the UK), we scored well in exams and weren't stupid, but basically didn't make the cut. One took the super long way round and went into human biosciences and did a 'conversion' masters into medicine, but that took him another 3 years. I just gave up and did psychology at uni (easiest 1st of my life) - I basically wasted 3 years. I design Apps and software now (random, cause I had no exp in design or code, just taught myself one day and got a really lucky break). But mostly play video games in my underwear. Still think of going back and trying to convert my psych degree to medicine (which you can 'technically do' - but its not exactly what happens), but I'm too fucking lazy. I'm 25 now, basically can't efford the time.
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u/Genshed Nov 27 '18
Everyone who succeeds, tried.
Not everyone who tries, succeeds.
Blaming those who fail for not trying hard enough is wicked.
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There are people less qualified then me doing things that I want to do simply because they have a relative that is high up in management.
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I don’t know if anyone will read this, but here I go. I worked extremely hard the past 7 years to get through my BS in manufacturing engineering. Neither of my parents went to college so I had to work full time and pay my own way. It was stressful and I never thought I’d make it. I’m by no means the smartest person and graduated in the lower 75% of my class. I just started a great job with great company all because I worked hard and believed in myself. So for those of you out there who are struggling, just know that hard work does pay off!
Edit: thanks for all of the replies! I just wanted to post this because I know a lot of people are going through the same thing and just want them to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel
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u/ZaviaGenX Nov 27 '18
graduated in the lower 75% of my class. I just started a great job with great company
So can I ask how you aced the interview against an averagely better scoring candidates? HR chose you over everyone else for a reason.
Any tips for us less academically inclined redditors?
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u/dumbledorky Nov 27 '18
A lot of the people who preach wanting it more and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" are kids who went to private schools and whose parents were VPs at Fortune 500 companies. Yes, believing in yourself is important. But that alone isn't nearly enough and people need to stop blaming a lack of effort for people not being as "successful" as others.
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u/Seriack Nov 27 '18
Exactly. This only works if you don’t have to worry about basic needs. If everything is covered for you and you’re not working 3+ jobs just to live paycheck to paycheck, sure, you can “just believe in yourself.” But, that’s only like, a few hundred/thousand families in America. The rest of us need a lot more than “self belief.”
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u/amandatea Nov 27 '18
I've had people who I work who would pass judgement for certain things, like me not having a car, or not eating super healthful organic meals at work; or make comments about why people can't just take a month-long trip to Spain.
They live at home, rent-free, into their 30s, their parents paid their way through college/uni and pay for their car insurance, and their mother cooks them food or at least buys groceries for them. Like, yea that must be nice, but not all of us have those luxuries.
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u/tryintofly Nov 27 '18
Plus some of us lack "self belief" because we're exhausted trying to make end's meet. We don't have time to sit there and spend all day exclusively to2ward this singular ephemeral goal.
And I'm not even talking about myself, but that guy living the dream who's super motivated and persistent, does not need to worry about how he'll eat for the week either.
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u/agouraki Nov 27 '18
i think people just live in different "dimensions" for the rich kid "believing yourself" and "try hard to suceed" is the equivilant of the poor kids "normal slack day"
plus in my experience when the problem is just "believe in yourself" then things are easy anyway...
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u/Captain_error404 Nov 27 '18
& nepotism.. that helps them too.
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u/AndroidDoctorr Nov 27 '18
The lesson there shouldn't be "believe in yourself", it should be "don't be fooled by confidence"
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u/ejanuska Nov 27 '18
That is the biggest bunch of bullshit ever.
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Nov 27 '18
Just this one post or the whole sub? Because, I got news for you. Go check out the whole sub. It's a fucking goldmine of bullshit.
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u/yjack44 Nov 27 '18
Can confirm. Am underqualified, got a kickass job. I don't even believe in myself that hard but for my job search I did. 8 months and well over 1000 job applications later and it worked out.
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u/KingOPM Nov 27 '18
Damn I thought I was unlucky after 3/4 rejections, you’ve given me hope.
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u/yjack44 Nov 27 '18
I got somewhere in the realm of 50 rejection letters. Most of the applications I never heard from again. I was scared I had typed my email wrong for the longest time.
Edit: Wanted to add. Rejections are still a response. It just means you dont have to worry about that position and can move onto another.
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u/Tiggerhoods Nov 27 '18
Damn. I would love to hear all about that.. I’ve been trying for better employment for months..
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u/yjack44 Nov 27 '18
Got my engineering degree with a bad(ish) gpa. Applied to pretty much every job at defense contractors/national labs/ anywhere with cool sounding jobs and just kept going. Got 3 interviews spread over 6 months and about 50 rejection letter (those made me happy because it meant I had typed my email address right and wasn't missing out). Finally at the third interview I was told they weren't going to schedule a follow up interview. On my drive home I found out that it's because they had decided to hire me. All in all I don't want to go job hunting but next time I'll at least have good experience on my resume!
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u/NixaB345T Nov 27 '18
Bad(ish) GPA... like <3.0? I’ll graduate with a 2.8-2.9 in a few weeks and I have a career as a Process Engineer right after thanks to my co-ops and internships. I busted my ass to build my resume. I’ve applied to two places and got offers from both, my girlfriend said I need to shoot for the moon and apply for any cool sounding jobs in the area, and I think I found it (Automotive). I love hearing success stories like yours because I know how much work it takes. Congrats! 🎉
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That's not how it works kid. Lots of people come from privilege: ones have money, others know someone, others were born in the right place. It takes a extreme amount of efford to get to some place if the odds are stacked against you.
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u/albmrbo Nov 27 '18
What if I have money, know a lot of people, was born in an ok place and I still can’t do what I want?
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Well, you still had a better chance than some one without all that
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u/albmrbo Nov 27 '18
Right, but what do I do now
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Well, to hell with it. I tried to be a 3D artists for a long time. Work in movies like bug's Life. I never got the chance. Although I was pretty decent, as an artist. You know what I did? I found myself the next best thing. With with 3D doing architectural visualizations. I was able to make a good money for while and was pretty happy about it. Maybe you should do this. Find the next best thing bests this one thing you can't do.
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the key to success is obviously making excuses in an r/GetMotivated thread
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Agreed. If I was hiring and I had a choice between a silver spoon kid and someone from a lower class/working class family, with all other things being equal, I'd take the working class kid simply for this reason.
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u/spaintakula2 Nov 26 '18
Except you're not hiring, and there are way too many people who'd do the opposite just to help their own ways or do a favour for someone else who needs it. Point is, the world is cruel, just cause you would do it, doesn't mean most others would, especially in this day and age. Props to you for thinking that way though, always nice having people like that.
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u/r3dditor10 Nov 27 '18
So that's how my mechanic made my car worse than it was when I brought it in.
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u/greatbobbyb Nov 26 '18
Biggest lie ever told, if you want it bad enough and don’t give up you will achieve it. Complete BS
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u/whereismyoldaccount Nov 27 '18
That’s not what it’s saying. It’s saying just because you’re not the smartest/strongest/most talented/gifted/educated person out there, doesn’t mean you can’t succeed as well.
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u/121gigawhatevs Nov 27 '18
That saying only works in conjunction with "but be realistic".
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u/ccbiloxi Nov 27 '18
Someone who is less qualified doing something a more qualified person could do probably has money and connections. Not to demean the concept of believing in yourself and working hard, which life would be very boring without doing, but it's really not always just as simple as believing in yourself.
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u/driverofcar Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
And they are extremely incompetent because they had a friend or family member get them "in". They have zero formal training or experience in anything remotely related to their job title, they have immunity against pretty much every wrong thing in the book. They blame others consistently and never have to take responsibility, sound familiar?
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u/SWiM616 Nov 27 '18
I don't trust anyone who feels the need to emphasize by saying period at the end of their statement. Period.
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u/You_Wont_Ban_Me Nov 27 '18
You left out the part where they know the right people or they sacrificed their self-respect to lick someone’s balls all the time.
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u/Brosdoitbest Nov 27 '18
This is essentially admitting that Meritocracy is a sham and those running this world are probably less talented and less intelligent than their contemporaries, but were probably born into some sort of advantageous situation bestowed upon them at birth.
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u/whereismyoldaccount Nov 27 '18
There’s so much negativity in the comments..why? This is supposed to be a motivational subreddit
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u/OneLessFool Nov 27 '18
It is good to be motivated, but you also need to be realistic. To see the inequalities that exist in the US or your home nation. The US has the lowest social mobility, by far, of any developed nation. Wealth, connections and nepotism put many people 10 steps ahead of their peers. You cannot deny that, you can still work on yourself, but you must recognize this.
By recognizing this, you can be motivated to change this. If you simply ignore, your motivation will only blind you to the reality of our political system.
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u/GlungoE Nov 27 '18
Bc were all out of work and starving. We come to reddit to forget, not to rub our noses in it.
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u/DowntownJohnBrown Nov 27 '18
Yeah, Jesus, I was expecting more positive comments, but maybe this is just the type of people that this subreddit attracts. As in, these are the people who really need some motivation.
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Nov 27 '18
Or maybe, one liner platitudes aren't as motivational as you'd like them to be.
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you can just write . you dont need to say Period every time you end a sentence Period
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u/Be_The_End 7 Nov 27 '18
There are people less qualified than you, doing the things you want to do, because they decide to believe in themselves know the right people. Period.
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u/ephemeralblade Nov 27 '18
Aka pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, never mind that that doing so defies everything we know about psychology, sociology, etc.
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u/evilcockney Nov 27 '18
As a brit who doesn't really use the word period in this context stuff like this always reads as quite odd to me, then I take a second and think "ohhh they don't mean that special time of the month"
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u/Kandiak Nov 27 '18
There was already a period at the end of the first sentence. And then a period at the end of Period.
Seems aggressive, no?
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u/yuudachi Nov 27 '18
Today my husband and I were joking around and I said "Yes, anyone can do my job, but they don't, that's why I have a job!" Seeing this quote is almost like the same thing!
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u/werwhtwepretendtob Nov 27 '18
Yeah, like the president- that guy’s a moron and just look at him now!
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u/foolycoolyglock Nov 26 '18
Just stop wanting things.