I Quit My Job

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A decade ago my brother did the professional online poker thing. He had multiple games running at once and all high stakes. He said smaller games weren't worth it.
However, a decade ago was before self help books and cleaned out scrubs.
I don't how much he made, but it was enough that he feared drawing the attention of the irs.
Eventually he was endorsed or whatever by Poker Stars and went to Vegas a few times free ride. Sat at tables with names I was supposed to care about. When he made kids, he was pressured to get a real job. He compared himself to an entertainer or athlete, but it didn't work.
Ironically, he went from Ed Norton in Rounders to Ed Norton in Fight Club (before Pitt comes in). Crunching numbers for insurance company (s)
 
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Adebisi

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I hope you make it far enough that Phil Hellmuth has the opportunity to rage at you.
 
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Adebisi

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What do you do when an interviewer asks you the "what do you like about our company?" question?

Twist: it's an insurance company.

"I ... I've always ... loved insurance?"
 
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Adebisi said:
What do you do when an interviewer asks you the "what do you like about our company?" question?

Twist: it's an insurance company.

"I ... I've always ... loved insurance?"
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It's all about customer service. How much you love dealing with people and the massive effect that the insurance company has on peoples lives. Or so I'm guessing since I was just offered a position at a large insurance firm yesterday.
 
Alex

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Yeah that question can be lame sometimes. I'm in the middle of final rounds at two different places and one of them is a security/authentication API product. No one gets amped about that. But I'm in the final round with them so I guess I worked through the question well enough.
 
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Adebisi said:
What do you do when an interviewer asks you the "what do you like about our company?" question?

Twist: it's an insurance company.

"I ... I've always ... loved insurance?"
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You tell them how you like the way they hire mad hot pussy to be their receptionists.
 
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The receptionist at my current job is ridiculously hot.
 
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Alex

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Everywhere I've been interviewing has had really attractive receptionists and HR directors. Fucking SF startups.
 
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Leadsalad

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As someone at an SF company that should have stopped being a start up, our receptionist is a 40+ year old lady who brings in home baked goods (she acts like a mom). And our HR department is... women who aren't attractive.

The marketing chicks though, jfc so hot.
 
SeanDoe1z1

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I have been getting more and more calls to my office phone from coworkers asking for things. First year was relatively quiet.

Time to jump ship.
 
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SeanDoe1z1 said:
I have been getting more and more calls to my office phone from coworkers asking for things. First year was relatively quiet.

Time to jump ship.
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Aint that the truth. That or time to start fucking up so people don't think you are competent at your job.
 
Alex

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That makes no sense to me. Guess I have too much self respect for that. Intentionally perform poorly so people think you aren't good at what you do? Why?
 
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Alex said:
That makes no sense to me. Guess I have too much self respect for that. Intentionally perform poorly so people think you aren't good at what you do? Why?
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I've worked various government jobs and the status quo is get through your probation and then coast doing the bare minimum because its nigh impossible to get rid of you. So (generally speaking) you get people that are just showing up and getting paid and doing the minimum amount of required work. In my experience, when your supervisor realizes that you know what you are doing and aren't a screw up, they tend to give you more work because they know it will get done vs having another employee try to accomplish it, screwing up, and saying oh well.

I'd say this is more for government work instead of private. I do it to myself really. I'm busting ass while getting paid the same as the dipshit next to me who is doing maybe half the work but, like you, I have too much self respect just to slack off so badly.
 
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BrutulTM

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It's very hard to keep working hard when people around you are goofing off and getting the same pay and recognition that you are. It only took me like 3 years before I was spending like 75% of my time cruising message boards and fine tuning my wishlist Magelo profiles. The first year I started goofing off a lot was also the first and only year I got an "outstanding contributor" rating at performance review time which was the final nail in the coffin of my motivation.
 
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Alex

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Yeah I can see that for government work. I worked for the Ohio Department of Transportation for a summer and I found that out quickly.

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BrutulTM said:
It's very hard to keep working hard when people around you are goofing off and getting the same pay and recognition that you are. It only took me like 3 years before I was spending like 75% of my time cruising message boards and fine tuning my wishlist Magelo profiles. The first year I started goofing off a lot was also the first and only year I got an "outstanding contributor" rating at performance review time which was the final nail in the coffin of my motivation.
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Ah magelo... that brings back memories.

Except I was doing that shit in grammar/high school, not at a job. Printed out the entire mage epic and read it during class in 7th grade to make sure I could complete it all.
 
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Xarpolis

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BrutulTM said:
It's very hard to keep working hard when people around you are goofing off and getting the same pay and recognition that you are. It only took me like 3 years before I was spending like 75% of my time cruising message boards and fine tuning my wishlist Magelo profiles. The first year I started goofing off a lot was also the first and only year I got an "outstanding contributor" rating at performance review time which was the final nail in the coffin of my motivation.
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Were you lusting over Nazlug, Zubazz, Ghark & Maxiuas?

Hell, even Lambart was well equipped.
 
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