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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • Got a new job after months of unemployment following getting laid off. Crawling out of a financial hole at the moment that was left in it’s wake, but at least bills can be paid.

    Edit: Iceland sounds fascinating. I hear it’s one of the few countries where the language hasn’t changed much, you can read thousand year old documents. Can’t do that with English, it gets incomprehensible before Middle English.







  • I recently ended my job hunt not too long ago. You need throughput in putting out resumes and cover letters. Use ChatGPT and have it generate cover letters for each job posting. Edit it so it doesn’t obviously read like it was generated from an LLM and get rid of any experiences it hallucinates on your behalf. It works better if your template resume is similar to the job posting in wording.

    Generating matching resumes and cover letters used to take up about an hour for me per application before ChatGPT. Now it takes about 15 minutes per application. Use that speed (and decreased mental labor) to your advantage. More jobs applied to means more potential hits.

    Applying for jobs is the suck, so use whatever tools you can to lessen the suck.