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Comment: Don't waste your time learning more of the same (Score 1) 201

My experience (which may have worked only for me mind you) is that employers don't give a toss about how much you know about stuff, but how flexible, adaptable and quick to learn you are.

In the 20-so years I've worked, I've held 4 positions in fields that have absolutely nothing in common. I worked as an employee, I worked self-employed, and I have my small business on the side.

Whenever I meet a potential employer, I am proud to say that I can learn anything quickly and become proficient on my own, and now I have a fat enough resume to prove it. Yes, I have an engineering degree, but the only thing it proves is that I'm patient and dog-headed enough to sit through years of boring classes, and that I'm clever enough to understand how teachers want the exam questions answered (which is not necessarily the correct answer). The rest of what I did in my life was self-taught, and employers seem to appreciate that much more than what I learned at school.

Comment: Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score 4, Insightful) 602

I don't really have a stake in the US elections as I'm not American

Everybody in the world has a stake in the US election: if a nutjob was to be elected again, the entire world would suffer. It still suffers from the last one...

Not that the average American has any real say in who will take office, being that, as South Park eloquently put it, the choice of candidates will be between a douche or a turd.

Comment: Re:Culture loss? (Score 1) 404

The French do the same thing (try to protect their culture/language), but ultimately isn't it up to the PEOPLE of France and Canada to decide what their culture will be?

If you let the people decide what their culture should be without trying to preserve existing things or invent new ones, we'll end up with reality shows passing for art, and Justin Bieberlake running the country.

Comment: Cheaper than cheap (Score 3, Informative) 91

by Rosco P. Coltrane (#38759798) Attached to: Walmart Holds Invention Contest

So essentially, they buy the stuff they sell from China because it's super-cheap, and now they're trying to get people to give them product ideas because designers and engineers are too expensive, to save on the cost of product development.

No way I'm giving the cheap bastards any of my brainpower so they can make even more profit.

(Mind you, that's exactly what Google does too...)

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

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