What did you say at a job interview that automatically landed you the job?

I was interviewing for a financial analyst job. The interviewer mentioned, "This is an intense job that will require nine months to get you fully trained and ready." I casually, and without an…

Top stories for Long   What did you say at a job interview that automatically landed you the job? Sean Kernan, Writer at seanjkernan.substack.com • Answered June 3 I was interviewing for a financial analyst job. The interviewer mentioned, "This is an intense job that will require nine months to get you fully trained and ready." I casual... Read more » 1.8K 26   Your response is private Was this worth your time? This helps us show content you find valuable. Absolutely not Definitely yes   No One Knew the Tragedy This Family Suffered Kathy Pennell, Author: 4 Adult and 12 kids' Mysteries, 1 Memoir at Lancaster County, PA (2000-p... • Posted Feb 14, 2022 A family of four, a mother, a father, and their two twin daughters, were having dinner at a Red Lobster in Arizona celebrating Father's Day. They resembled a perfect family, but no one at the resta... Read more » 1.2K 7   How does time travel in movies work if Earth is moving through space? Tomaž Vargazon, Practicing atheist • Answered May 29 It's usually not thought about at all. But there's a workaround that kind of fixes it. The movement of our solar system through space does present certain … issues Any moveme... Read more » 299 34   Is it grammatically correct to say, "Sam and I have the same age"? Mike Mendis, former Editor • Updated November 28, 2024 Is it grammatically correct to say, "Sam and I have the same age"? It is grammatically correct, but we do not use it in English in a sentence like this one. When we are talk... Read more » 404 47   Our neighbor's 8-year-old drops by our house almost every afternoon and chats away about anything and everything until we ask him to leave. He's a sweet kid, but it's becoming a pain; what should we do? Pamela Lea, lives in Jacksonville, Florida, USA (1958-present) • Answered October 20, 2018 As I read this, I was reminded of a situation my mother had with a little boy in our neighborhood. He would came to our door and ask first if I was home (no), and if my sis... Read more » 6K 241   My landlord is saying we flushed a baby diaper and paper towel down the toilet causing clog and has proof pictures. Can he try to evict me due to his word against mine? Eileen Wood, Real Estate Transaction Coordinator • Answered June 2 It's not his word against yours - it's PICTURES against your word. Since no one with two functional brain cells flushes diapers and paper towels, that would be considered de... Read more » 1.7K 123   There is an anecdote that tells of the time Bertrand Russell was explaining to his students that an argument that starts from false premises can have any conclusion. Alessandro13 • Posted Nov 27, 2024 One of his students stood up and said to him, "Starting from 0=1, prove to me that you are the pope." Russell replied, "If 0=1, then, adding 1 to both sides, we have that 1=2. I am one person, and t... Read more » 953 82   How would Steve Jobs react if he saw the iPhone X? Sergey Ilin • Updated April 14, 2019 He wouldn't have let the iPhone X be released in the form it is. There's a good story happened while development a first iPod. It was written in Jobs' biography. Group of en... Read more » 65 7   What are some disadvantages of old age? Jim Whittington, Masters Structural Engineering & Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology (1976) • Answered August 11, 2024 Thank you for the question. I am JIM and I'm 70 years old and I am a retired structural engineer and general contractor. I operated a nonprofit organization in Kenya for 18... Read more » 85 24   Why is the left having a meltdown over Trump's birthday? Sterling Archer, 25 year lawyer extraordinaire, dog rescue advocate , foodie • Answered June 14 We're not. I was at Lowe's yesterday and some guy ahead of me in line was buying little American flags and he said to the cashier "you know this is for Donald Trump's birth... Read more » 8.9K 1.3K   Have all the chemical elements in the universe been discovered? How can we ever know for sure? Frank Heile, Ph.D. Physics, Stanford University • Updated August 20, 2013 Yes. We pretty well know all stable or long lived isotopes of all elements and they are all found in our solar system. The abundances of the isotopes may differ in differe... Read more » 85 27   How do you spend your monthly salary? Raaj Patel, Senior Data Engineer ➡️ AI Engineer • Updated May 12 Hey, my name is Raj Patel. I am 24 years old from UP, India. I graduated from NIT Trichy in 2021. After graduation, I didn't sit for college placements and came home becaus... Read more » 95 10 Read more in your feed

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How old are you and do you care about age?

I`m 79 this August and yes, I do care about my age. I dread being 80 and I wish the world would slow down. So many old friends have died between 80 -85 years old, and I wonder if I am next. I am…

Top stories for Long   How old are you and do you care about age? Asked in Aging with an Attitude • Answered by Perlette Rigsby • June 30, 2024 I`m 79 this August and yes, I do care about my age. I dread being 80 and I wish the world would slow down. So many old friends have died between 80 -85 years old, and I won... Read more » 470 65   Why are AMD and Intel the only main brands to make CPUs? Have any other companies attempted to make them as well? Jim Mowreader, Printing Expert (1994-present) • Answered June 15 Oh, LOTS. And they didn't "attempt" to make them, they made them in large quantities. Let's see…right off the top of my head… MC6800 and MC68000 families: These were made by ... Read more » 161 16   Mathematician Dr. Terence Tao was a child prodigy attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. How would it feel to be sitting next to a 9 year old at your differential equations class, who probably understands the lecture better? Hugh Luckock, used to teach mathematics at an Australian university • Updated June 28 In the 90s I taught a freshman calculus course at Sydney University, to a class of the strongest students. I liked to get them involved by asking the class challenging ques... Read more » 120 20   If you left your driver's license at home but had a picture of it on your phone, would that be good enough if a police officer asks for your license? Richard Pedersen, former Retired Machinist/cnc Programmer • Answered March 14 I got pulled over for speeding about 25 years ago, the cop asked me for my license, registration and proof of insurance. I gave him my registration and insurance card and t... Read more » 3.7K 408   What basic consumer goods should we buy in preparation for a drop in Chinese imports? Wurm, studied Economics at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities • Answered April 28 Get what you need. But honestly, here's what's going to happen: The American economy is going to tank, big time. People will have far less disposable income because they have... Read more » 705 56   There are a lot of parents on this site who believe in spanking. That's fine, but are there any parents out there who give their kids a post-spanking follow up session to discuss why they were spanked and help them understand what they did wrong? Nandita, F/T Mom, CEO of my family. Best job in the world! • Answered August 10, 2022 Yes, absolutely I do. After giving any of my kids a spanking, regardless of a light spanking with my hand or a more serious spanking with my hairbrush, I will send them or ... Read more » 87 23   Do people live longer if they work every day or do they live longer if they rest most of the time? NH • Answered May 18 I recently retired. I've been keeping an eye on that for at least the last ten years. My friend Bobby retired to his recliner. He calls it his command center. He can barely ... Read more » 6.8K 484   Where do trains go to sleep? Seriously, travelling between major cities like Bristol, Birmingham and London during the day, I have never spotted large areas of empty sidings where they might park the trains unused overnight. So where do they park up? Andy Duffell, Rolling stock engineer for a UK train operating company • Updated June 19 I'm sitting in a rail depot just outside of London as I write this, so I can assure you they exist! You're presumably travelling out of stations like Paddington on GWR? Ther... Read more » 74 4   Why is most of the world dead set on ignoring Trump? Jean-Marie Valheur, avid follower of US politics • Answered June 24 In an astonishingly weird move, Donald Trump just publicly leaked a private text message from Mark Rutte, secretary-general of NATO, on social media: This is absolutely insa... Read more » 1.5K 368   Can you wear a miniskirt to a job interview? Mark Hudson, former Manager at CarMax (2011-2020) • Updated June 10 I was doing job interviews for a new store that was opening in Pensacola, Florida. We (recruiter and I) did the interviews in our hotel rooms. The rooms were lofts with the... Read more » 4.1K 441   What are some of the best action thriller movies ever made? Ganesh A Jambhulkar, . • Updated January 14, 2021 Thriller is genre of movies everyone loves it. If it is compound with psychology then it creates the binge worthy movies (All the movies are not performing as your expectat... Read more » 139 5   Where in the constitution does it state non-citizens have rights? I've read the constitution. I don't remember anything about noncitizens. Is this just "wishful thinking" on someone's part? Dan Waddell • Answered June 13 You've read the constitution? HA! I don't believe it. But, assuming that you're not lying about that, please re-read, carefully, the 14th amendment, particularly Section 1: "... Read more » 710 264 Read more in your feed

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