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  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoComic Strips@lemmy.worldJob Interviews
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    1 day ago

    Imagine you got 3 job offers … the interviewer wants to know why his company is the one you’d choose

    Because you expressed interest in hiring me? And I need a job? So I’m here? I’d also be perfectly content picking the other 2 companies if it’s the same salary.

    What caught your eye about this job posting?

    The fact that you guys said you were hiring?

    they’d prefer someone who is interested

    I guess this is the real problem. I don’t care about your company. I’m here to exchange my time for money. I have my own interests and they don’t involve working at your company.

    But, yes fine. I understand this is the game I have to play. I will lie to you and tell you that it’s been my dream since I was a little kid to work at your dumb company, selling shit that no one needs or tricking people into giving you money.

    One company that asked me this made… let’s say IoT flower pots (something mundane like that)… I guess I’m supposed to say: OMG! I. LOVE. CONNECTED. FLOWER. POTS! How did humanity survive without internet connected flower pots??! My sole purpose in life is to help make IoT flower pots. Please allow me to join you guys! 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

    Is it not possible to have something like this?

    • Job: We need someone who can build IoT flower pots.
    • Me: Yep, give me enough money and I’ll do it.
    • Job: OK.













  • Semi-manual tracking with YNAB. My bank doesn’t offer an OAuth2 API and there’s no way in hell I’m giving Plaid my bank credentials. So, I just download a transactions file and upload that to YNAB.

    I know people here will probably recommend https://actualbudget.org/ which seems like a YNAB-clone (in a good way). But the reason I went with YNAB is because they have a ton of docs and videos about how YNAB works and budgeting in general. ActualBudget seems to be targeted at people who already know what they’re doing (not me).

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