“Reality of Job Searching: There’s Always Someone Better Than You”

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1. AnonymousApril 14,2024 at 3:44PM UTC

   Nick,

   I'm glad you finally found out that there is somebody better than you out there. Maybe now you can understand that there is some truth to the phrase, "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." Try it, you might like it. There is being brutally honest, and then there is just being brutal.

   I hesitated after seeing your disparaging remarks on "age discrimination isn't real," but part of a "victim mentality" before reading this one. Maybe you can now "sweeten" your comments when posting on a site intended to encourage people (particularly women) who face the brutal every day.

2. AnonymousApril 20,2024 at 4:59PM UTC

   "Complaining is not a strategy. You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be." ― Jeff Bezos

   The best encouragement anyone can give someone is to respect them enough to tell them the truth and not give "spoonfuls of sugar." (Tell them what they want to hear, and enable their limiting beliefs.)

   More than most, I know how "brutal" the workplace can be. More than most I know complaining about today's realities, playing the "I'm a victim game" is counterproductive. You either learn to navigate the realities you face, or you let the realities navigate you.

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