The Unhappy Me thread

[R.D. Silverman]

Originally Posted by tServo

Luigi,
I'm bummed about your predicament.
Also having been in your situation a while back and having several friends in this situation recent;y here is my opinion, FWIW.

(1) Consultancy takes time to get going, especially getting paid.

(2) Your best shot is your network of contacts. Even if they don't know anything, ask them if they know someone who might have something.

(3) Accepting part time work is a good idea as it keeps the wolves at bay and might make some new contacts. Also, some companies use these positions as an audition and hire these workers permanently.

(4) You're right about age discrimination. Google for articles on how to "disguise" your resume and make it "Age ambiguous". Your goal is to get at least a phone interview and then a F2F one.

(5) Companies scan resumes, OCR them, then run them thru scoring programs looking for keywords and phrases. Look around for articles on how to write your resume to help your chances here.

Good Luck!
Marv

Good advice, exception that it is impossible in general to hide one's age.
These days companys want to verify e.g. claimed degrees. Either you will
have to tell them the year you graduated so that they can ask the school,
or the school will tell them.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by R.D. Silverman

Good advice, exception that it is impossible in general to hide one's age.

I don't even try. My DOB is right up near the top of my CV.

[ET_]

Today FermatSearch.org suffered an attack from IP 130.193.147.7

Fortunately, they only managed to delete a 60-record table with the running ranges, while the 20 years long history of reservaation and user stats are still safe.

Unfortunately, I discovered that my actual ISP doesn't offer databare or site backups

Still worse, I discovered that all the manual database backup I set up just to be sure were working, but not the one related to the running table.

I will update the table as new completed ranges (as well as your communications) come.
Ranges that were requested long ago, but never completed are now considered relesed.

I apologize for the inconvenience, and ask for your help and patience to recover as soon as possible. To avoid flooding the forum, please send a confirmation email to l dot morelli at mclink dot it.

Luigi

[chalsall]

I'm currently working with a PhD who couldn't find her ass with both hands....

[LaurV]

what have you done to her?

[Batalov]

To the donkey??

[LaurV]

Well, no, actually, the few females we knew in our distant past could not find different parts of their bodies with their hands when we were "working with them"... :boasting:

[xilman]

Now getting seriously bored with the state of my right (dominant) hand.

The little finger developed Dupuytron's contracture some time back; it became bad enough last year (a permanent 45 degree bend) that day surgery took place last Tuesday. Recovering from local and general anaesthetics and, subsequently, analgesics wiped me out for three days. No great discomfort but the heavy bandaging and arm in a sling results in significant inconvenience, not least when typing.

Two reasons to be cheerful: in many ways I'm almost as sinister as I am dextrous and the bandages come off tomorrow.

[ewmayer]

Not to minimize your condition in any way, but why would the medical folks risk putting someone under for a little finger operation? Just numb the hand and do the operation behind a little portable curtain, while the patient relaxes in a supine position.

General anesthesia - expensive and not-ignorably-risky - seems wildly overdoing it to me.

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Not to minimize your condition in any way, but why would the medical folks risk putting someone under for a little finger operation? Just numb the hand and do the operation behind a little portable curtain, while the patient relaxes in a supine position.

General anesthesia - expensive and not-ignorably-risky - seems wildly overdoing it to me.

Speaking as someone who has had hand surgery following a 10 cm laceration, they used local for the initial sew-up in the casualty ward. But, for the surgery to deal with the nerves and tendons they put me out. The main reason is to prevent any motion during the surgery. Cutting and sewing the small bits requires them to be still.

I was in more pain following the surgery than I was after the initial sew-up.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Not to minimize your condition in any way, but why would the medical folks risk putting someone under for a little finger operation? Just numb the hand and do the operation behind a little portable curtain, while the patient relaxes in a supine position.

General anesthesia - expensive and not-ignorably-risky - seems wildly overdoing it to me.

I asked the same question.

It's an hour-long operation and there's a good chance that a local will wear off before completion. That's what I was told anyway. Uncwilly's explanation may well be very relevant in my case too though, of course, my tendon was to be removed not preserverd undamaged. Far too late for that.