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Stone Cold Robert House,

yes, I think I could still optimise both the CV and the application itself. Also the interview - situations aren't unfortunately my strenght. I know I come across as a little...non-smiling? Lately I've had some crappy times making it even more difficult to plaster on a fake smile. Had a couple of interviews recently, thought they went at least ok but wasn't selected for the job. I know some people are just great in job interviews, they are often also quite good in a lot of things. I know that once I am selected I'll do at least ok, probably even great at the job.

I actually saw the book you recommended in the book thread about influencing people. Going to try to get it.

Atomkilla,

well in EU, Finland's economy has tanked lately, and we've always been a country with high structural unemployment. I have studied quite a bit, might need to do some more studying.

Walpknut,

I work through a co-op right now. It's pretty flexible but I'd prefer a 'real' job.

Zegh,

you sound like a talented artist. It's good that you hone your skills and get your foot between the door, so to speak. You can build a portfolio that way that will help you a lot in the future.
 
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I got my current steady job after spending 3 full months of pestering local design agencies and tech developers with my CV. It just requires some patience, I would tell you to update and change your protofolio but I don't know what your field is so giving design tips might be useless.
 
Unfortunately I don't work in an area where I could really make a portfolio. I've mainly worked in education, translation, office work of various type and other stuff. Pretty varied. I do have an interest in working in some more artistic areas such as photography, editing, etc. Have studied, in addition to my main studies, quite a bit of film studies and other stuff like that but haven't yet managed to turn it into work. Would be really interesting though if I could though.
 
I love to cook, but my asperger-extreme + living conditions really prevent me from having any of that fun. Man, how good some people have it, with their absolute lack of ANY social anxiety, man, how comfortable they can be, just "THIS IS MINE, I RULE THIS WORLD", fuck... while I have to basically wait for people to go on fucking vacation, before I feel safe enough to "own" the kitchen for 15 minutes.

It's on me, I know, which is ultimately why I desperately need a better place to live, one where the kitchen is mine cus I paid for it and nobody else.

Still, though, there's shared area, and you get like... MOST people will stick to their own business, they'll use the shared livingroom when they invite friends and such, I'm totally fine with that, naturally. But some people

some people, like the recent addition to the collective, is the kind of guy who - ON DAY ONE - flings all his laundry all over the shared area, plants his ass in the shared sofa, and simply decides to stay there. It's no longer a shared livingroom, its HIS livingroom now, and it's not something that breaches any contract or anything, he is free to lay face down in the shared sofa every hour of every day if he wants to, but come on... what a stupid nerve some people have, and on top of that, he went knocking on doors, to impose his new rules, his new regulations right a fuckin way - the same DAY (which I told him to shove up his ass, which turned into yet another problem) people like that, I've no idea where they get their confidence from...

To sum up, I love stuffed eggplant
 
I am also socially anxious, but I am in kind of a privileged situation as my mom owns an apartment on the city I live right now, so I just live there while paying the bills. I don't share living with anyone.
 
zegh8578 said:
I love to cook, but my asperger-extreme + living conditions really prevent me from having any of that fun. Man, how good some people have it, with their absolute lack of ANY social anxiety, man, how comfortable they can be, just "THIS IS MINE, I RULE THIS WORLD", fuck... while I have to basically wait for people to go on fucking vacation, before I feel safe enough to "own" the kitchen for 15 minutes.
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Did you try conquering the kitchen drunk?

As far as I'm aware, people don't generally get angry when you do stuff in the kitchen, especially if you're the better cook. It activates their gibsmedat mode, making them very easy to handle. You might even make them do the boring things like chopping onions or peeling potatoes.
 
I am also highly histerical when it comes to cooking for others, the only time I did, I made delicious Peppered Chicken on the oven, with rice (it had corn, peas and carrots) and a side of mashed potatoes and the people eating left a quarter of it half eaten, made me want to hit them in the head. That's why I never cook for anyone ever again.
 
The funny part is, since I started to cook, and a few fancy stuff as well, I tend to look a lot more for how things are traditionaly made - drives my room mate crazy, but he has no reason to complain repeating the benefits of my new hobby. What pasta goes with the sauce? Frensh herbs over anything else. Fuck you! My bolognese doesn't even get close to that dried garbage and instant tomatoe paste from the super duper mart. And it can take so long to cook that I have to prepare it 1-2 days in advance. 4-5 hours minimum just for the stewing. Better 6. But it is worth it. But nothing goes over a self made Sofrito. Can't beat those more than 40 different Polyphenols, science bitch!

Also, self made flatbread in a pan. So awesome!
 
Considered starting dishes that take prep time like that in advanced. At most I just stick with making soups, mostly onion soup, because onions are cheap and easy to grow. Yet you know that feeling you get, we all have it, when you make something for other people that they think you make good? Like a really good onion soup.

And then they tell you how to make said onion soup you made last time for them. After they asked for the same thing. In other news cast iron is still great for throwing at people and cooking good eggs. :-P
 
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Did you try conquering the kitchen drunk?

As far as I'm aware, people don't generally get angry when you do stuff in the kitchen, especially if you're the better cook. It activates their gibsmedat mode, making them very easy to handle. You might even make them do the boring things like chopping onions or peeling potatoes.
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It's not about actively bothering, or actively being bothered. I just can't handle the fact that I am "borrowing" my own living-space. I dunno how to explain it, except to just point at the obvious - whatever you do - in your own home - you do it in front of an audience you don't care about or even like.
Maybe some people are okay with that, but after years of living like this, it's really eating my last nerve.
And it's nothing that can be blamed on anybody, so all I can do is tolerate the situation, and keep searching for a better place to go. I don't have so much that I can pay for a full-sized apt, any smaller easyer apts are few, far between, and usually taken.
What the city has in huge abundance - are the flats that you share with others, which is exactly what I want to avoid.

I guess I'm always feeling like a guest. I'm never home

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BY THE WAY! I want to extend the award of dick-donkey-of-the-year to this WWZ-Brad-Pitt-Hair-modern-dad-wannabe piece of scrotum who decided to STOP in the stairway up to the airplane, to chat (flirt... ) with the air hostess - IN -18 DEGREES CELCIUS. Oh, SURE, HE had JUST set HIS foot INSIDE the COMFORT of the plane, and ALL of his sense of hurry VANISHED the INSTANT HE was comfortable. That was ALL he knew. The MOMENT he FELT COMFORT, he stopped moving, unzipped his pants, and wanted the air hostess to blow him, and did not intend on ceasing his flirtation untill he achieved his goal, everyone else be damned, elderly people, parents with babies, me, everyone stuck in the stairs untill HE FELT like allowing people to survive the freezing motherfucking cold.

-18 degrees.

Stops to chat

Takes his time

Hair like Brad Pitt

GODDAMN HIM. GODDAMN HIM! I still hate that guy, I will remember and hate him as long as I live.
 
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I hate people like that. On my second trip to the UK I had to make a scale in Spain. THere was this asian bussiness man in the middle of the hallway of the Plane and he was just taking his sweet ass time completing some kind of ritual before sitting the fuck down, he had his rolling luggage next to him and he was just there, taking off his jacket, accomodating it on the chair, fixing his tie, rolling up his sleeves, stretching his arms, resting his luggage on the seat while still standing right in the middle of it, there was even a point where he just stood there looking at his phone... only thing he forgot to do was shaving and do some Aerobics. We stood there for minutes, the dude apparently unaware that other people exist and those fucking Spanish planes are crampped and it was hot as shit. Fucking douche.
 
Hahaha, I appreciate your level of hatred for this kind of stuff - and notice this crucial detail:
1 guy has the nerve to halt everyone else in their tracks
everyone else lets him, because they are considerable people

What a contrast and irony, and I was one of them, slowly freezing to death, instead of telling the guy outright to fuck the hell off. I bet people would have applauded me if I did. I know I would, with frozen fingers and all, if someone had told him to get a goddamn move on. But everyone else, me included, had the basic decency to just wait, unfortunately...
 
In a situation like that what you do is loudly cough in the blocking persons ear. Hopefully they will take the hint.

Haven't been in a plane in ages, would be nice to go somewhere warm right about now.
 
This is where a fake suicide vest comes in handy; brings the annoying bastard back to reality in a jiffy guaranteed.

Don't forget to say allah akbar for immersion.

May or may not include jail time.
 
Some years ago, some teens in my town burst into a bank, holding up a bottle of cod liver oil = "tran", shouting - in Norwegian - "this is tran!" = "Dette er tran" which sounds humorously similar to "Dette er et ran" = "This is a robbery"

The joke didn't land.
They were surprised that it didn't land.
 
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