I understand this 100%. My father imagined himself to be a character and the life of the party. He would dress like a biker no matter the affair. He had been a systems analyst on big iron.

🎶but there ain’t no whales…🎶

I am an adjunct professor. My evenings are taken for making slides and marking. I wish I had time for gaming.

Godfather II. The first is honestly kind of hokey and people are really stupid when they are trying to be clever. GF II has higher levels of tension and the execution of everything is smarter. And Robert DeNiro just slays playing young Marlon Brando.

I worked 3rd (23:00-07:00) shift for years and really enjoyed it. Shift premium was great, workload was low. Almost no management in place (hospital). I’d socialize in the evening and then go to work after. Didn’t have any problem sleeping during the day. It’s also true that I was a bachelor so no kids or pets depending on me.

You’ll never believe what’s under Antarctica’s sheets!

Volleyball and pickleball have robust adult communities in most places. And you don’t even have to be good! The point is usually to mingle and drink.

Isn’t that how Arnold Schwarzenegger was caught out?

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YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I’M A MAN NOW!

That was the advice of Barry Sears 30 years ago in the zone diet book. IIRC his actual advice was two hamburgers rather than the quarter pounder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about this when he explains his own career. He realized the amount of effort he had in him was never going to change, so he wanted a field where earnings weren’t limited by his own effort - the dream of passive income. He became an expert on risk and a well known writer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

/laughs in -40 C or F? Doesn’t matter!

“What’s the career trajectory in the unit?” Which is a polite way of asking what happened to the last person. Another classic is if they are looking to sustain their current performance, make small improvements, or do an overhaul.

Good point. On a callback I’d be all about expectations and details. That having been said I’m changing jobs this month and I still don’t know if there is a bike cage or showers at the the new place. But it wasn’t part of my decision criteria so I’ll find out when I start

Unpopular opinion: the candidate shouldn’t have asked any of those questions. Those are offer negotiations because you can trade off salary for parking etc.

That first interview is a chance to be strategic and ask about growth in the department or development pathways/programs. I was always told that first you get the ring, then you negotiate the prenup.

Get lost asshat.

Sir, this is Dull Men’s Club. I think I just wet myself a little.

Yeah but base building doesn’t seem as sexy. LSD is the basis of every coffee plan - Long Slow Donuts.

Story time! The lyrics came about when a friend from England was visiting Steven Page. The friend was looking at a map of Toronto and made the comment that the city had beautiful street names and pointed to the intersection of Jane and St. Claire as an example. For those of us who grew up there we know that it was a really ugly. There was a junkyard on one corner, a Dairy Queen on the other all on the edge of the meatpacking district. So somewhere in there a song was born.

I think it’s hilariously stupid. It might have made more sense if it followed a training progression. Like move from coffee sprint to coffee racer, menu long run and then the marathon maybe? Sprint to marathon is some Goggins level shit.