If you write a decent covering letter and enclose a CV (resume) and get it to my desk, I might be inclined to be interested in you.

That's how things used to be done. Recruiters did exist but you generally got off your arse and impressed a potential employer with a well laid out CV as an invitation to call to interview.

Nowadays it appears that people want to circumvent all that complicated effort bollocks. You simply spray yourself across some social media wankery and let's face it LinkedIn is the supreme example of wankery and some grateful employer will pick you up.

The next time you are considering buying a record player to engage with the past in some sort of misty eyed histrionics session, why not buy a pen and paper and write a letter and impress someone with your turn of phrase? Enclose a CV (resume) for maximum effect.

... "Nurse ... nurse ... my dried frog pills have started dancing on my eyeballs ... nurse ... "

Well, how? Recruiters got me job offers when I graduated college. I had no connections otherwise.

Getting a job across the border is easier with LinkedIn...

Might have better success with a Public Benefit Corporation instead of a nonprofit. I’ve considered starting some myself.

Now do OpenAI...

..said no IRC user, ever

I suppose that depends on where you go and what you expect. Older communities are better populated than younger ones. (Not age-wise but topic-wise).

It's odd, yeah?

We have the ability to vibe these things over a weekend, yet getting to the critical mass/tipping point of adoption is something else.

Whatever happened to: if you build it, they will come?

You need a new type of corporation.

Only a Public Benefit Corporation will get the software to a usable state and refuse enshittification

Yeah I recently heard about people working multiple jobs at once - I wasn't surprised - with work from home being a thing and many jobs at big companies being not overly strenuous, you can get away with it.

A previous coworker had been not especially good at his job and left after two months, and a little later I went looking for his LinkedIn to see where he'd ended up. Couldn't find him but didn't give it much thought. A friend told me that he was working at a company up the street but was also working another job at the same time, and the penny dropped - you can't have LinkedIn and be working two jobs at once and reasonably expect to get away with it or get hired again.

That really depends on the field. Only one position asked about my LinkedIn. And that was because they had you apply via the site.

I didn't apply, because fuck that inside out.

and thank god too. Modern design is bloated crap.

Looks older than that, which is great