TalksQuietly

Happy Hallowe'en!

Someone at my work came as Hellraiser.  Which was freaky in such an awesome way.

I appreciate the dedication (and probably serious amounts of glue) to get all those pins attached.

The answer that most people who understand the complexities of human jobs give is 'No'.

Your grades can be a reflection of how well you and the teacher/material worked together, how well you learned the material (which may influence how well you'd do at that particular task), and possibly how your first interviews will go (later interviews being based on experience, not grades).

Networking, and the ability to collate and present data (rather than gather it), is what gives most engineers the next position.  It's not usually whether you were able to measure/do the work well.  Although you can't be a huge failure at the task given, often times the tasks are above university level anyways, so you got extra training.  But after not failing at doing the task, usually how well you networked, and whether - when they gave you a small team lead roll - you succeed at presenting ideas, leading teams, and being able to work with others, is what gave you huge moves up the corporate ladder.   

It's one of those great tasks every really hard worker has to learn (usually painfully).  It's not always work that gets you raised, it's networking, looks, and all the 'soft skills'.  And your grades rarely reflect those things (which is why we also have some fairly brilliant people near the bottom).

People who complain about having to get up "so early".  And then say "like 7:30 or 8".

As in, most people wake around 6:30 for their jobs.

Me, I'm 5:30, unless my kitty Salty decides he loves me at 4am and then licks my face 100 times until it's sore, but in such a cute way as to make sure that I can't possibly be upset with him.  Then I wake at 4 and 20% chance I just go from there.  

So your "7:30" would be a glorious sleep in for which I have no chance.  It's not "so early".

Also, possibly Salty in about 3-4 weeks if he keeps this face licking up.

Hi! Welcome to Codex!

 

Now don't judge me too harshly

 

 

As a man who lost many a college hour to Asheron's Call, I am in a glass house of the thinnest kind.

And I tend not to throw stones

FUCK YEAH I'M A LEADER

I'm also a a veritable cornucopia of wit, intellect, and fun.

Oh, so Rocket was just saying "Napiform is here". 

I thought she meant more people, but now this makes sense

I've come here to lure you to Blitz.

Whos arm is suprisingly annoying, and by end game, he just does a phenomenal amount of damage.

Tie the damage and the 1 second stun together, plus the arm, he's devastating.

Plus, every 7th time I play him I think of the movie Iron Giant and tear up.

And then grab someone near a turret and laugh.