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Surprised to hear this seeing as OpenSUSE treats KDE as first class

I haven’t read the book, but based on the Wikipedia dissertation of which jobs are bullshit I kind of disagree. Take for instance this one, which isn’t a strawman:

goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists, community managers;

Good luck having a gaming company without community managers. The developers are usually so boggled down with bugs and infrastructure they don’t have the time or are too burnt out to talk to the community. While you could then blame this on many other things, excellent community managers (I’m from the gaming industry and speak anecdotally) can nearly completely mitigate the problem.

These jobs might not seem too important, but without them, customers don’t feel good, and if they’re spending money they’re spending it to have a good time. It’s not about practicality, it’s about giving them something that lets them live life in the moment.

Hey so I’ve had a lot of help in life and this is one step I’ve mastered with my friends. I can tell you how to do it, but not everyone has the motivation to follow this. If you don’t, I’m sorry but this won’t work for you.

THE MINDSET

Landing your first job comes from several steps:

1. You need a good resume
2. You need a lot of applications
3. You need to get a lot of interviews
4. You need to be good at interviews

(Note that 4 is after 3 because your first bunch of interviews will be about practice, not getting the job. It’s free practice!)

THE RESUME

The resume is not a one step process. It’s something that you should redesign and iterate on as time goes by. I personally wrote my resume in LaTeX since it stands out more than the black on white ones. If you to do this, create an account on Overleaf.com and ping me your username, I’ll share you a copy of mine that you can just fill out with your info.

THE APPLICATIONS

This is the most crucial step, and the one people screw up. This is the step that you must listen to what I have to say, and you will get a job.

1. REGISTER to Indeed.com
2. FILL OUT your profile
3. Search “Software Engineer”
4. ONLY CLICK THE ONES THAT SAY QUICK APPLY

You should be able to apply to a posting in LESS THAN 30 seconds. If you are taking more than 30 seconds, you are doing it wrong.

Why?

• It’s up to the company to decide if you’re qualified, not you. So don’t read the job posting
• With ZERO experience, it will take 60-90 applications per interview. At 110 applications an hour, that’s just over 1 interview an hour. You don’t have time to read the posting.
• If you’re actually good at computers (you’re on c/Linux afterall), this efficiency level shouldn’t be a problem for you

Once you master this step, you’ve almost got your foot in the door and are ready to start your life. If you can’t do this step, I can’t help you.

Note: If you don’t see “Quick Apply” on anything, get a free VPN and change your location to North America. It’s not there for some countries.

THE INTERVIEWS

The interviews are about 2 things:

• Can this guy communicate?
• Can this guy code?

THE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE IS AS LISTED. When I ask someone to write an algorithm to find all the prime numbers less than some N and they start making typos in the editor while not talking, I’m not hiring them. If someone writes a brute force O(n^2) solution but talks me through it as they go, they still have a chance.

Let me be clear: If you cannot communicate, I will not hire you even if you have the most optimal solutions.

So how do you communicate?

• When solving a problem, legit just explain your thought process. The interviewer will know where you are and give you hints too when you do this ;)
• When answering a behavioural question, tell a story
  • i.e “Tell me about a time you had a successful project, but still weren’t satisfied with the results” you should explain everything from what made you want to start/contribute on the project, to the crux of the problem, and to what you did to make it better in the end
  • Check out this guide on the STAR method if you have a hard time with this (trust me - it works!)

THE OFFERS

When negotiating the offer, note a few things:

• The salary range for the title in that area
• If they ask how much you want, give a RANGE - The lowest being the 60k or the bare minimum you’ll accept (whichever is higher, if you think you’re worth less than 60k you’re just wrong), and the highest being 90-100k for your first position
• Don’t feel pressured to accept your offer right away - you get raises by switching jobs, not doing well; start this early, get multiple offers, and pick the best one

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I’m past the point in my life of getting that “first job”, but I’ve been there. You have to understand something: People don’t like being uncomfortable, but your comfort zone won’t get you a job. Do it. You can do it.

From what I remember a few years ago, it’s not like Wine where you can run a bunch of applications (simply because they’re not as big and don’t have the contributors). So you won’t be running any GUI apps at all, just some low level stuff here and there.

As someone who uses Element, this is music to my ears. Great install choices too! (Links taken from <a href=“https://fluffychat.im/”>fluffy.im</a>, I’m just messing around with styling in the post)

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<div class=“smallimg”> Mobile App:<br> <a href=“https://apps.apple.com/app/fluffychat/id1551469600”><img src=“https://i.imgur.com/xCD3zW4.png” /></a> <a href=“https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.fluffy.fluffychat”><img src=“https://i.imgur.com/ckEP22u.png” /></a> <a href=“https://f-droid.org/de/packages/chat.fluffy.fluffychat/”><img src=“https://i.imgur.com/TWX93TU.png” /></a> </div>

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<div class=“smallimg”> Desktop:<br> <a href=“https://fluffychat.im/web”><img src=“https://i.imgur.com/dJ8285u.png” /></a> <a href=“https://snapcraft.io/fluffychat”><img src=“https://i.imgur.com/dTZDwVW.png” /></a> <a href=“https://flathub.org/apps/details/im.fluffychat.Fluffychat”><img src=“https://i.imgur.com/Nvc8YjE.png” /></a> </div>

I’m sure you could summarize the key points that address what tuxayo is saying rather then telling him “do your research, bro”

There are thousands of Wikipedia administrators, and they’re voted in by the community. The people who actually run Wikipedia are Bureaucrats.

The 3 editors your referring to are bot accounts that do things like archive pages and format things consistently.

Please learn more before spouting blatant lies, thanks :)

• A Wikipedia editor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators

You can’t just drop links and racism and pretend that’s an argument. Your post talked about administrators, I explained why that’s wrong. That goal post stays where it is.

resentment is not racism

I left Ruqqus for the stupid racism there, didn’t expect to find it on Lemmy

That aside, I agree with most of what you said. My post was just to call out CriticalResist for running behind text walls after posting patently false info

Naturally rolling over and getting raped avoids conflict, but I would certainly support defense there