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feelthepainofdodick · 5 years

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Love For Hire - Ch. 3 - (D.D. x Reader)

Summary: David hires you to be his fake girlfriend for a month to get the diza stans off his back. This experience is the craziest thing that has ever happened to you and the emotional consequences that ensue are something you never expected.

Notes: I know Carly and Bruce just broke up but I just basically finished editing as they announced so if yall don’t wanna read and just wallow I understand but the next chapter of Love For Hire is here for yall when yall are ready. Also! Thank you to the people sending in requests! its so exciting. Thank you all truly. Im going to start writing them asap. Should be up by tonight or tomorrow. One last thing, this series truly is a slow burn. I have a million ideas for this series so there will be a lot of chapters. Hope yall love a good slow burn because that is exactly what this is. Much love, Julie

Word Count: 1775

CHAPTER ONE - CHAPTER TWO

“DDDDAAAVVVIDDDDDDDD!” You hear someone yell from inside the house as Natalie opens the glass door to their home. You follow behind them as they walk in taking off their shoes, you do the same.

This tall, multi-hair colored man hugged David and looked in my direction. He let go of David and said with a grin, “Well, David who did you bring home?” Looking at me from top to bottom. He walked over to me and gave me a big bear hug. “Hi. I’m Zane.” You struggled to breathe as the hug was very tight. David hit him on the side making him let go of you. “Don’t suffocate her dumbass.” He says to Zane, making him let go. “This is (Y/N).”

“And how come I’ve never met (Y/N), David.” He glared at David while putting his arm around your shoulder walking over to the living room where other people you didn’t know were sitting.

“Because I just met her about thirty minutes ago.” He said as we all sat on the couch. You are now sitting in between Zane and this boy with blonde hair and many tattoos.

“Ummm? What? Who are you (Y/N)?” Zane says with his full attention now on me.

“Well… I’m (Y/N) and I’ve been hired to be David’s fake girlfriend for a month.” You say casually. Multiple gasps come from people you have yet to meet but Zane just starts laughing. So hard that it makes the others start laughing.

When he finally stops, he looks over at David. “Couldn’t get a girl to date you so you had to hire one, huh?” He says beginning to laugh again.

David looks around, cheeks flushed, “you know I’m not looking to date anyone Zane. You all know how hard its been to be Liza’s ex boyfriend. I have a lot of press coming up within the next month so I’m giving everyone a distraction. (Y/N) is everyone’s distraction.” He says gesturing towards you like a shiny toy. The rest of the group nods in understanding.

The rest of the night is filled with music, jokes, meeting everyone, and many cameras. You were able to introduce yourself properly to the rest of the people there. You met Matt, Heath, Scott, and Joe. They were all extremely nice and took to you as a little sister type. They all felt so comfortable and homey. You then met the girls there; Carly, Erin, and Corinna. You instantly clicked with them. They were a perfect mix of funny, girly, down to earth, but also had a slight edge to them that made them not feel like superficial girls. It was a little surreal hanging out with the vlog squad after doing so much research on them in the plane but you just clicked with them just like you hoped you would.

Slowly one by one people started leaving David’s house to go home. First Corinna, to go stream. Heath next to go back to his girlfriend Mariah. Carly and Erin next to go to their respective apartments and boyfriends. Then Scott and Joe to also go back to their homes and girlfriends. Then lastly, Zane and Matt to go back to the house they shared. When everyone was gone, Natalie showed you to your room, when you did some light unpacking, you went out to the living room to find David on his computer and Natalie lying on the couch scrolling through her phone. You casually sit on the love sac across from them. “So are you guys ready to talk details?” You say trying not to be too forward but wanting to know details because this was, in fact, your job.

Natalie looks over to David and nods. Natalie sits up. “So, the main objective we were hoping to accomplish with hiring you is to distract people from David’s ex relationship for press. Do you know about David and his youtube?” She questions.

You nod. “I did my research during the flight, I have a general idea of who you all are.”

“Okay great! I’m sure you’ll learn smaller things to make the fake relationship more believable as you continue hanging out with us. So we need you to be a subtle affectionate kind of girlfriend. We do have cameras on nearly all the time. So just hang out with David as if you two are best friends and throw in some touches, some kisses on the cheek, overall general closeness. You’ll attend any events he has to do, but we all attend them so it’s not just you alone. You will have to act the part of a lot of the time. How does that sound? Am I scaring you?” She asks concerned.

“No! No no. I’m fine. Just a lot of information at once. I just want to make sure its not weird. I don’t want to make you uncomfortable David.” You said now looking over to David who was still looking at his laptop. “Because I’m completely willing to act the part but obviously we are not actually dating and I don’t want things to be weird.” David is now looking at you. He sighs, pushes his laptop over to the side, and sits closer to Natalie to face you.

“I don’t think it’ll be weird. I think the only thing I’m hesitant about is that I just don’t know you. I want to know you so I can act normal around you, so I can act like a fake boyfriend. The fans know when I’m doing anything off. They can smell lies through the screen. But if we are actually friends then I think we can fool them, especially since they don’t know you so they haven’t learned to tell when you’re lying.” He smiles softly.

You smile back. “Well I’m an open book! Either of you can ask me anything that will make you feel more comfortable with me.”

David and Natalie look at each other then back at me. “Why are you an escort?” David asks nervously.

You smile solemnly at them. “I’m broke, is the short answer. I went to college for marketing but couldn’t get any job after it. I would apply to every PR firm in Boston and the state but nothing ever happened. I didn’t have the connections I should of made in college. My dad died during my junior year so I was super withdrawn during the prime time for internships and networking. When I finally graduated, I was jobless and homeless. I couch surfed for a while and that’s when I started escorting. I was objectively pretty and I needed money. It was definitely dark at first because I was so desperate for money that I did every job I was offered. When I finally got enough money, I got a tiny studio in Boston, was able to get a shitty deli job, and survive off only doing not sketchy escort gigs every once in a while. This escort job gives me the time to apply and try and catch up on the things I missed out on to further my career. So here I am, pretending to be your fake girlfriend for a job but also the whole social media thing intrigued me. Thought it could help me learn from experience about PR and stuff. Just thought I’d be up front about that.” You finally finish, sighing a long sigh, and looking over their faces. You could tell they were sympathetic but there was no pity in their eyes. You were grateful. “Oh god, enough about my sob story. The real question is, are there actually ghosts that love only Natalie in this house? Because I think that may be a deal breaker.” You say sarcastically.

They both laugh. Natalie nudges you lightly. “You really did do your research.”

The rest of the night is spent getting to know each other. You learn all about them. How they grew up together. David’s start in the social media space. Natalie moving to LA to be his assistant. The empire he has built for himself. In turn they ask you all about yourself. Living in Boston, your family, college, high school, ex boyfriends, your best friend, and your opinions on the most random stuff. That’s definitely something you and David connected on, going on random tangents about the wonders of the universe. You didn’t think anyone else thought like that but here he was.

It was nearing 3AM and you all needed sleep. They told you they had some plans to film at a friend's house the next day. You left the living room, into your room, excited for the next day. You felt connected to Natalie, David, and even the other vlog squad members in a way you couldn’t explain. It felt like you connected a puzzle piece correctly to the puzzle that is your life. It has been a long time since you felt that way. You drifted off to sleep with a smile on your face.

You woke up to no alarm, just the sound of chatter in the living room. You woke up and got ready for the day. As you walked into the living room you see Natalie talking on the phone, you wave, and make your way over to the kitchen. As you look through the fridge Natalie walks up behind you and says, “Hey, don’t worry about breakfast. I just postmated a bunch off breakfast stuff from IHOP.” You smile, going over to sit at the kitchen island, “sounds great, thank you Nat.”

When the postmates comes in and it set up on the kitchen island is when David decides to come out of his bedroom to eat everything. It’s nice and comfortable eating with them. Some light witty banter, lots of shoving food into mouths by David, and just pure ease as you all eat. The second we finish eating, David wipes his mouth with his sleeve, and says, “Okay! You ready to go” Looking at both Natalie and you. Slightly startled you just nod and within seconds you are in his Tesla riding somewhere. His camera settled in the car so all three of you are shown. You came to the conclusion last night that if a camera was on and near you that you had to play the part. This was your first go, and you were ready to embrace this job for what it was, so you looked at David and smiled sweetly with a look of love for the camera to see. This was the official first day of being David Dobrik’s real fake girlfriend.

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lifewithlala · 5 years

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How to write a great resume that makes you stand out

The ultimate guide on finding an internship, part 1

This is a 6 part series that shares what I’ve learned in the way of finding my own internship placement. Today, we’ll be looking exactly what you have to write to make yourself stand out from other applicants.

1. Make your resume relevant to your employer. If you want to stand out, this is the secret. You want to show your future employer that you are the candidate it needs to fulfil its needs and wishes. Every company has a different goal and mission so they will ask different things from you. However, This is the number 1 mistake I’ve seen my classmates make. They only write 1 general resume and send it to a bunch of companies. BITCH 👏 STOP 👏 RIGHT 👏 THERE 👏 No two companies are the same, they each deal with different problems and have a different approach and business model. So it is damn right stupid to send the same thing to all of them. If you do that, you’re just digging your own grave. Save yourself. Love yourself. Don’t go through all those rejection letters when you could have pretty damn well avoided them. I’m sorry if I come as blunt but PLEASE listen!!! Take your time and research profoundly the companies you would like to work for. Read their website, stalk them on all social media and specifically LinkedIn. Try to get a hold of their culture and values. This is so important, I will devote the second part solely to this. So follow me if you don’t want to miss it.

2. Learn about the market. Doing research first can give you a headstart, even if you don’t have relevant experience. When I say learn about the market, I mean studying the area of expertise you want to focus and learn as much as you can. In my case, I study entrepreneurship and retail management, a very broad subject. However, I knew I wanted to focus on digital marketing so what I did was research what exactly falls under it, what employers are looking for, what software they use, what branch of it interested me the most, if there’s demand for it (very important!) and expected salary.

Tip: the more demand, better the pay. So try going into a niche.

3. Try getting some experience beforehand. If you can find a part-time job that is related to what you wanna do, then take it! As a student, you can’t really expect to be paid a lot, but what counts is the experience you are getting because this show you really are interested in learning about the trade. Personally, I started this blog almost a year ago. I also took some courses on Google Academy and surprisingly it gave me some opportunities and I got a gig as a social media assistant for some restaurants. When I went to the interview, the manager was really surprised by the fact I willingly took some courses to learn to work with Google Analytics and absolutely loved the fact I blog. So it doesn’t have to be something grand, as long as it shows you are motivated and willing to learn.

4. Write only the relevant information and a catch. Every resume follows basically kind of the same structure. You have your contact info, work experience, educational background and skills. You’ve done your research on what the company wants and needs so please don’t write everything you’ve ever done and experience on the resume. Even if you feel tempted to, do not do it. Write only what is truly relevant that you think can also benefit the company. As students, chances are that we don’t have relevant work experience. If this is the case, highlight your skills and coursework that you have done at your university. If you have worked on projects that are linked to other organizations besides your university and it is relevant for where you’re applying, write it down. And you should consider writing a summary statement. A summary statement is a sort of pitch and is a perfect method of summarizing why you are a good candidate for the position and what you have to offer for the company. You can find more information about writing one here.

To wrap it up, if you really want to stand out, you have to make it personalize your resume for each organization you are sending it to. Which is why you have to do your research on the job market beforehand so you know exactly what companies are looking for and if it is a right fit for you. Don’t be afraid and start getting some experience too. Whether it is by applying for a part-time job, following some courses or your own projects that are also related to what you want to do. And lastly, write the relevant information. Don’t write everything you’ve ever done as it can make your resume rather long and incoherent. Try making it short and to the point instead so they can quickly asses if you are a good fit. Don’t forget to write a statement summary to pitch yourself up.

In the second part, I’ll be talking about what I looked for in companies, how I determined if I could be a good fit for it, build criteria and help you see what companies are looking for candidates.

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chiseler · 5 years

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All the World’s a Stage

In 1988, a socio-linguist at the university of Pennsylvania posted a note on the departmental bulletin board announcing she had moved her late husband’s personal library into an unused office. Anyone who wanted any of the books should feel free to take them. Her husband had been the chair of Penn’s sociology department. They’d married in 1981, and he died the following year at age sixty. Normally you’d expect the books and papers to be donated to some library to assist future researchers, but she’d recently remarried, so I guess she either wanted to get rid of any reminders of her previous husband, or simply needed the space.

At the time my then-wife was a grad student in Penn’s linguistics department, and told me about the announcement when she got home that afternoon.

Well, had this professor’s dead husband been any plain, boring old sociologist, I wouldn’t have thought much about it, but given her dead husband was Erving Goffman, I immediately began gathering all the boxes and bags I could find. That night around ten, when she was certain the department would be pretty empty, my then-wife and I snuck back to Penn under cover of darkness and I absconded with Erving Goffman’s personal library. Didn’t even look at titles—just grabbed up armloads of books and tossed them into boxes to carry away.

As I began sorting through them in the following days, I of course discovered the expected sociology, anthropology and psychology textbooks, anthologies and journals, as well as first editions of all of Goffman’s own books, each featuring his identifying signature (in pencil) in the upper right hand corner of the title page. But those didn’t make up the bulk of my haul.

There were Catholic marriage manuals from the Fifties, dozens of volumes (both academic and popular) about sexual deviance, a whole bunch of books about juvenile delinquency with titles like Wayward Youth and The Violent Gang, several issues of Corrections (a quarterly journal aimed at prison wardens), a lot of original crime pulps from the Forties and Fifties, avant-garde literary novels, a medical book about skin diseases, some books about religious cults (particularly Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple), a first edition of Michael Lesy’s Wisconsin Death Trip, and So many other unexpected gems. It was, as I’d hoped, an oddball collection that offered a bit of insight into Goffman’s work and thinking.

Erving Goffman was born in Alberta, Canada in 1922. After entering college as a chemistry major, he eventually got his BA in sociology in 1948, and began his graduate studies at The university of Chicago.

In 1952 he married Angelica Choate, a woman with a history of mental illness, and they had a son. The following year he received his PHD from Chicago. His thesis concerned public interactions and rituals among the residents of one of the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland. Afterward, he took a job with the National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. His first book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which evolved out of his thesis, came out in 1956, and his second, Asylums, which resulted from his work at N.I,M.H., was released five years later. In 1958 he took a teaching position at UC-Berkeley, and was soon promoted to full professor. His wife committed suicide in 1964, and in 1968 he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as the chair of the sociology department, a post he would hold until his death in 1982.

Citing intellectual influences from anthropology and psychology as well as sociology, Goffman was nevertheless a maverick. Instead of controlled clinical studies and statistical analysis, Goffman based his work on careful close observation of real human interactions in public places,. Instead of focusing on the behaviors of large, faceless groups like sports fans, student movements or factory workers, he concentrated on the tiny details of face-to-face encounters, the gestures, language and behavior of individuals interacting with one another or within a larger institutional framework. Instead of citing previous academic papers to support his claims, he’d more often use quotes from literary sources, letters, or interviews. He created a body of work around those banal, microcosmic day-two-day experiences which had been all but ignored by sociologists up to that point. After his death he was considered one of the most important and influential sociologists of the twentieth century.

Without getting into all the complexities and interpretations of Goffman’s various theories (despite his radical subjective approach, he was still an academic after all), let me lay out simpleminded thumbnails of the two core ideas at the heart of his work.

Taking a cue from both Freud and Shakespeare, he employed theatrical terminology to argue that whenever we step out into public, we are all essentially actors on a stage. We wear masks, we take on certain behaviors and attitudes that differ wildly from the characters we are when we’re at home. All our actions in public, he claimed, are social performances designed (we hope) to present a certain image of ourselves to the world at large. The idea of course has been around in literature for centuries, but Goffman was the first to seriously apply it in broad strokes to sociology.

His other, and related, fundamental idea was termed frame analysis, the idea being that we perceive each social encounter—running into that creepy guy on the train again, say, or arguing with the checkout clerk at the supermarket about the quality of their potatoes—as something isolated and contained, a picture within a frame, or a movie still.

He used those two models to study day-to-day life in mental institutions and prisons, note the emergence of Texas businessmen adopting white cowboy hats as a standard part of their attire, analyze workplace interactions and the complicated rituals we go through when we run into someone we sort-of know on the sidewalk.

I first read Goffman in college when his 1964 book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, was used in a postmodern political science course I was taking. In the slim volume, Goffman studied the conflicts and prejudices ex-cons, mental patients, cripples, the deformed and other social outcasts encountered when they stepped out into public, as well as the assorted codes and tricks they used to pass for normal. When passing was possible, anyway. At the time I was smitten with the book and these tales of outsiders, being a deliberately constructed outsider myself (though as a nihilistic cigar-smoking petty criminal punk rock kid, I had no interest in passing for normal). I was also struck to read a serious sociological study that cited Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelyhearts—my favorite novel at the time—as supporting evidence.

Thirty-five years later, and after having read all of Goffman’s other major works, I returned to Stigma again, but with a different perspective. Although my youthful Romantic notions about social outcasts still lingered, by that time I’d become a bona-fide and inescapable social outcast myself, tapping around New York with a red and white cane.

Goffman spent a good deal of the book focused on the daily issues faced by the blind, but in 1985 those weren’t the outsiders who interested me. Now that I was one of them myself, I must say I was amazed and impressed by the accuracy of Goffman’s observations. He pointed out any number of things that have always been ignored by others who’ve written about the blind. Like those others, he notes that Normals, accepting the myth that our other senses become heightened after the loss of our sight, believe us to have superpowers of some kind. (For the record, I never dissuade people of this silly notion.) But Goffman took it one step further, noting that to Normals, a blindo accomplishing something, well, normal—like lighting a cigarette—is taken to be some kind of superhuman achievement, and evidence of powers they can barely begin to fathom.

(Ironically, he writes in Asylums that the process of socializing mental patients is a matter of turning them into dull, unobtrusive and nearly invisible individuals. Those are good citizens.)

Elsewhere in Stigma Goffman also points out—and you cannot believe how commonplace this is—that Normals, believing us to have some deep insights into life and the world, feel compelled, uninvited and without warning, to stop the blind on the street or at the supermarket to share with them their darkest secrets, medical concerns and personal problems as if we’d known them all our lives. He also observed the tendency for Normals to treat us not only like we’re blind, but deaf and lame as well, yelling in our ears and insisting on helping us out of chairs.

Ah, but one thing he brought up, which I’ve never seen anyone else mention before, is the fate awaiting those blindos (or cripples of any kind) who actually accomplish something like writing a book. It doesn’t matter if the book had absolutely nothing to do with being a cripple. I’ve published eleven books to date, and only two of them even mention blindness. It doesn’t matter. If a cripple makes something of him or herself, that cripple then becomes a lifelong representative of that entire class of stigmatized individuals, at least in mainstream eyes. From that point onward he or she will always be not only “that Blind Writer” or “that Legless Architect,” but a spokesperson on any issues pertaining to their particular disability. I was published long before I developed that creepy blind stare, but if I approach a mainstream publication nowadays, the only things they’ll let me write about are cripple issues. Every now and again if I need the check, I’ll, yes, put on the mask and play the role. But I’m bored to death with cripple issues, which is why whenever possible I neglect to mention to would-be editors that I’m blind. And I guess that only supports Goffman’s overall thesis, right?

Well, anyway, a series of four floods in my last apartment completely wiped out my prized Goffman library (as well as my prized novelization collection), so in retrospect I guess that professor at Penn probably would have been better off donating them to the special collections department of some library.

by Jim Knipfel

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nomediaplay · 5 years

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There’s a bunch of new questions in my inbox that I don’t think I can answer without ranting and being very condescending. Below are some

“Will you buy Jessica's book”

That’s extremely unlikely. First off because I basically only ever read various types of research papers and legal documents. Secondly because I doubt she’s able to understand enough of the bigger picture and has enough self-reflection to write something I’d find meaningful. Maybe she can, but I doubt it.

“Based on those RIAJ reports, will streaming take over Japan like it did with the rest of the world?”

I’d say it already has since long ago, at least among younger people. As I’ve ranted about before, the physical market in Japan is almost 100% about idols making fans buy CDs for other reasons than music. And it’s particularly held up by how idols hold huge amounts of events to which fans get “free tickets” if they buy CDs.

“You said that bgs have better physical sales because of fangirls, then why bigbang is not selling millions like exo and bts?”

Because no matter how stupid they are, most of BIGBANG’s fangirls are at least a lot older than EXO and BTS fangirls and therefor won’t spend their hard earned money on something so ridiculously dumb as buying CDs.

The real question you should ask is: Why are hordes of international girls who don’t speak Korean and who don’t have a CD-player buying millions of CDs from Korea???

And the answer to that is in how the big young international kpop following basically is like some huge retarded online cult that lives detached from reality and doesn’t care about facts, and instead basically just makes up whatever stuff they want to believe in. Obviously record labels are fueling this behavior as they make a ton of money from how fans spend money on dumb things. But it’s really fascinating how it’s largely the fans themselves who have created this absurd behavior.

“How is it possible that a girl group like Blackpink who sold 200k+ copies of their mini album with no fan signs, billions of views on yt, tons of exposure, a successful world tour and 20k attendance at their Seoul concerts can't even sell out their fan meeting?”

Again, you’re asking the wrong question. BLACKPINK is basically just some girls dancing to 5 autotuned Teddy-songs. I understand if lots of people find the songs to be awesome. But it’s 5 songs. And basically anybody could go up on stage and dance to them. So why would anyone pay for tickets to a BLACKPINK performance? The turn-out for their latest Korean concert seems like a fair turn-out reflecting how many people that logically should want to pay to see BLACKPINK (and as mentioned before: much of the audience at their previous Seoul concert had been given free tickets by companies sponsoring the event, and 20k seems exaggerated too for that matter).

So the real question you should ask is: “Why are hordes of international kpop fans paying money to see BLACKPINK dancing to some songs?” And of course the answer is again in how this international kpop following basically is an online cult.

“Do you know the difference between apple music and iTunes and which do I have to look at to know how a group is doing.”

Yes of course. ‘iTunes’ is Apple’s old download service where you purchase downloads. ‘Apple Music’ is Apple’s new streaming service where you pay a monthly subscription and then get to stream whatever music you want to listen to, exactly like Spotify (it just took them 7 years to copy Spotify).

Since no normal human would pay to purchase a download from iTunes, iTunes is completely irrelevant. Spotify and Apple Music are the charts you need to look at if you want to know what music people are listening to.

The only ones who buy downloads on iTunes are idiot fans who for some reason have convinced themselves that they must waste their money to make their faves top iTunes. And frankly, buying downloads from iTunes (or QQ etc) is even way more stupid than buying CDs from Korea. At least fangirls buying CDs could claim that they want the photobooks and cards in the CD package. The idiots that buy downloads from iTunes are just pissing away their money. Don’t even get me started on all the Chinese fans who uses VPNs to make their faves top the US iTunes chart.

“How big are the chances that super m will succeed in u.s.?”

The question is strange. The members already have lots of fans. From the perspective of Capital Records it seems a very simple and low-risk project to make money from their already existing fans buying shit.

And from the perspective of the members it seems like a good opportunity to get great US/worldwide promotions/exposure that will help them make more money from concerts and CF deals now and in the future.

As for if they could become actually mainstream music that people listen to, the answer is of course no.

“Does the labels in the west work the same shaddy and scheme ways as most korean labels/agencies? Is it better to no sign to a label and just stay independent and probably make more money given the bigger and more developed music markets?”

The western companies are of course just as ‘shady’ in many aspects, but your question is strange. Record labels, songwriters and performing artists all live in symbiosis.

Record labels make money by marketing and selling music.

Songwriters make money not only by royalties on music sales through record labels, but also from how much their songs are played in concerts, on TV, on radio, in clubs, at sport events, in karaoke bars, etc etc.

Performing artists mostly make money not from royalties on music sales, but by being paid to perform live at concerts and other events and by being paid for various types of CF/endorsement deals.

They all need each other. And if you’re a performing artists with ambitions to make it really big and get paid lots, it makes no sense to decline all the promotion/marketing you’d get by signing with a big record label early in your career. And particularly if you’re not also an awesome songwriter, because then you’ll need the help of some good A&R people to get you suitable songs.

The ‘problems’ of the idol industry (and this of course doesn’t just go for Korea, but even more so for Japan and China, and also applies to many of the big US/UK boygroups decades ago) is especially manifested in how idols are made to do endless promotions and free events to drive music sales (which the record labels make huge money from) instead of doing paid events (which the performing artists would make huge money from).

“It's teddy the richest producer in kpop? Because I always though he probably get paid better than most kpop idols.”

Again: the top performing artists make huge money from live performances and commercial deals, much more than anybody makes from songwriting or music sales. But performing artists who don’t make it big enough make absolutely zero money if they can’t get paid more for performances than what they’d have to spend on outfits/makeup/travel/assistants etc.

Teddy is indeed one of the Koreans who make most money from songwriting nowadays. But songwriting is very different to any normal jobs. Your income is passive royalties from how much your songs are used. Some songs continue to be used for a very long time and all over the world. Take for example the songwriting for ABBA. They continue to make lots of money today from 40-50 year old songs because they are still being used lots on radio, in TV, in musicals and with covers in concerts etc. There are obviously a lot of old Korean songwriters who have a huge catalogue of songs they’ve written that continue to make them money every year.

“Will the hallyu ban in China ever be lifted?”

Who knows. China being China. They’re just altogether weird with their one-party-state ruling everything but any horrible individual opportunistic capitalist behavior seems completely OK as long as you support the party-state enough.

“Do bgs members ever stop being fuckboys?”

It would probably be good for you to realize that all men by nature more or less has a biological instinct that says “if there’s a hole, then I should plug it”. Their actions are rather a result of opportunities and consequences. Most male pop-stars and actors have more or less endless opportunities and face no consequences.

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omg i want to hear more about this princess au!! what would killua be? any headcannons?

AHH Anon!! I’m just so happy you’re interested in my princess AU! I have a lot of AUs in my mind, some more fun than others, and the princess AU is one I’ve explored in different angles so in the end I sortaaaa have like... two different princess AUs!! :D I tried to find titles for them to like, describe them separately, so I apologize in advance for the length of this answer, I got sorta carried away XD

Thorns and Blessings

Hana is a Tanalean princess who was promised to a noble Sahertan, general and head of army, by her uncle, the King of Tanalea, as part of a treaty for peace between Tanalea and Saherta. She stays at his castle to honor her part of the treaty--though really, she doesn’t a choice, as an orphan and a threat to the throne that her uncle wants to get rid of.

Then comes Killua, a captive soldier from a northern country, bought as a prisoner by Hana’s bethrothed general. The first days, even weeks, that Killua spends at the general’s castle, he goes through torture as the nobleman tries to extract military information from him/bind him to his law.

I just imagine that since Hana is also a captive in a way, one who is paraded in glitter and silks by the noble and who has to give up her culture to conform to that of the noble, she would feel for Killua. So she sneaks in at night to tend to his wounds in secret and give him some food and water, and somehow they befriend each other and talk about their respective countries and how they wounded up in a Sahertan noble’s house.

(and well, they fall in love :D)

Now I don’t know how exactly but they escape at some point :D And it’s a wild chase because oh no! the Tanalean princess is gone! If the Tanalean military has word that their princess disappeared, they’ll strike! And the young soldier who was captured might have exchanged military knowledge with the enemy and the princess!! So yeah the jerk noble/general has to find them before all hell breaks loose lol.

And the Fairy Laughed

This AU takes place in a sorta Victorian-ishhhhh setting.

Hana is an orphan who was taken in by her “aunt”. She’s young, beautiful, and charming, but her lack of manners and her intensity tend to drive people away--especially men, who are not used to and can’t deal with a woman who speaks louder than they do. Her aunt, who is tiring of her, just wants to marry Hana off to a good suitor with a good--and wealthy--family, so she’s constantly nagging at her to be “proper” and tries to teach her how to be a well-behaved lady.

But Hana just can’t behave and she doesn’t care much for what men think of her. She has a loud laugh and a sharp tongue and every intention to drive her aunt crazy so long she can keep her freedom.

Things change when she meets Killua Zoaldyeck--the heir to the frightening but insanely rich family of nobles, whose trade is as mysterious as it is successful. She doesn’t recognize in this man with a jaw like blade the soft-cheeked boy she used to play with when she was a child and her parents were still alive. She doesn’t remember him--but he would recognize her, with her strange but endearing quirks, among thousands.

Reconnecting isn’t easy when she is pressured by her aunt to be proper--even moreso when the boy from her childhood has grown into a quiet man with unspoken pain behind his eyes. She knows it all too well--it’s the same yearning for freedom that rages into her when everything down to her corset tries to suffocate her. But they catch up with the adults they grew into--and maybe, among the unbriddled laughs and the jokes that would have made their families gasp in horror, they learn how to be those free children again.

(and also drama happens because since neither of them cares about manners, together they’re an unstoppable force of improper-ness and Hana’s aunt gets mad and shit happens and since im an angsty bitch, I sooo imagine that the aunt would lock Hana in and Killua wouldn’t know if she still likes him and blabla you know how I am XD)

OH One thing I imagine in this AU is like, one day the aunt ties Hana’s corset too tight because she “put on weight” and is “disgraceful” and Hana faints!!!! and Killua just unties her corset to let her breathe and yells at the people who complain or get too curious or outraged because ffs let the girl breathe lol

ANYWAY I’ve done zero research on Victorian eras and such so all of this is purely yui-fabricated so probably historically inaccurate but it’s super fun when I run these AUs in my mind XD I’ve got a bunch of other AUs too like:

one where Greed Island is an edgy Hunger Games type of game and Hana and Killua team up to win (and Killua wants to find Gon),

another where he’s the CEO of a company (heir of the Zoaldyeck, ya kno), and she applied for the vacant position of his assistant, but as they become closer (since she’s so good at her job you know) they realize neither of them like their jobs!! Like he’s just doing this because of his father but ultimately he just wants to lead his own life, and she applied to be his assistant so she could talk him into letting her investigate security breaches in their system because it’s her passion but she has no diploma in that and being a woman in tech-related jobs is hard (lol)

she’s a single mom and she meets him (or the other way around) (OR BOTH ARE SINGLE PARENTS)

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

high-school AU woohoo

I could go on tbh LOL it’s just so fun to make AUs with my own OCs XD

ANYWAY IM SO SORRY i got super carried away XD Thank you for asking me about my princess AU(s) anon!!! I hope you liked the answer :3 *hugs*

#princess au #au #specials #ref #hanaiko #asks #killua #hanallua #Anonymous

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Becoming a Digital Nomad: A quick and dirty guide to UpWork

(My “office” on the Isla of Flores in Guatemala)

Freelancing is one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.

Although now I have moved off of freelancing and am more of an independent contractor, I still pick up a few freelancing projects ever quarter.

Because it is simply a great way to make money. Loads of people are leaving their office and opting for something more flexible: according to the FreshBooks Self-Employment Report, potentially 27 million Americans will leave the traditional work in favor of self-employment by 2020. This shift would triple the current population of full-time self-employed professionals bringing the total number of workers to 42 million.

And that’s just in the US, imagine what these figures look like globally.

I’m guessing if you are here reading this, we’ve talked about it already and I have sent you the link, so you are pretty sold: but let’s review:

You choose your hours. No bosses saying “You’re ten minutes late!” or having to suffer through another 8-hour shift that just never seems to end. You pick when you work. If you are hungover and can’t bring it to the table: that’s your call. (But warning: you will not get the money if you don’t work.)

You choose your projects. After the first couple projects (which is a bit of a mad and dirty dash, I am afraid) you get to start to get choices. Storytime! Once I was working for this American Museum Tour company. At first, they were loads of fun, and they even flew me to New York City multiple times, and I got a paid trip to Switzerland. Things were great, until the point they weren’t. Then I began to hate it with the passion of a thousand suns. So one day, I just quit. The next day, I found another project, and they paid me more money, and were a better company. It was bloody easy. Stop suffering. Pick a project you like and only stick with it until/if you stop liking them. (Note: I have been with the new client for 3 years, and they are still a dream to work with.)

You get paid real money. There is this idea that if it happens on the internet, maybe there is something sketchy about it. This could be true in some cases: but in this case, you get actual money (ok, sometimes it is in a different currency then the country you are living in, but you can turn it into your currency) that goes into your actual bank account and you can actually buy and pay for things. For sitting at home. Doing stuff on your laptop.

You can learn new stuff on the job. I definitely didn’t start out with all the skills I have now. I started off as a modest internet researcher, and through time, worked my way up to having this whole jetpack of skills that clients not only want, but need. Don’t feel daunted about not being able to do everything right away. Start with a good project, and be a sponge. Learn as much as you can, because these skills are valuable (remember the part about making real money?)

You can go anywhere in the world. As long as they have wifi, and your clients are ok with you being in a different timezone? You can go anywhere. Since working as a freelancer, I have travelled to, get this, 30 countries. Screw waiting around for a two-week vacation. Go see the world. And make some money while you do it.

Now, here comes the part where I bring that excitement down to a reasonable level.

There are some hard truths about freelancing I am going to be frank about.

The first is that it is real work. You’ve got to be dedicated and you absolutely have to have a rock-solid work ethic. If you don’t, you will not get very far, because this is not the kind of job you can “float by” on. People will drop you like a hot potato the second you stop performing. And there is no safety net. You will have to hustle your own projects for the first bit: people will not be chomping at the bit to get you. In fact, they will probably, most like, almost definitely ignore you for the most part. There are literally 12 million users on UpWork: if you aren’t hustling, you aren’t going anywhere. Apply for ten positions a day. Get up at 4am for a Skype interview. Be charming af. Follow up, then follow up again. Don’t let them forget you, and if they don’t hire you, ask why and then get better. You’ve got to get your own work. Lastly, you are probably not going to make mad money right away. The money is there, and you can have some of it, but you are probably going to have to do a bit of grunt work first, and I am talking up to 2-3 months at a low rate. But keep at it. There is a bunch of money and magic at the top of the mountain.

Still with me?

Ok. Let’s get into it.

Why UpWork?

So, when I first started freelancing, I signed up for a few different Freelancing websites that were around at the time: oDesk, Elance and Freelancer. There were others I looked at, like Toptal and Fivrr. But I couldn’t see how people could make actual money to pay bills on Fivrr, but didn’t have high enough skills or experience for Toptal. I got work within a few weeks of signing up for oDesk, and after seeing the cut that Freelancer was taking after one project, stuck with oDesk. oDesk merged with Elance, they changed their name to UpWork, and here we are.

That being said: I love UpWork. At one point, one of my clients asked me if we could leave UpWork, and he would pay me directly. I agreed. That is $1000 I will never get back. He was a nice guy, but at that moment, I was screwed over, and there was nothing I could do. UpWork protects you from that happening.

Secondly, with the sheer amount of freelancers on the site: clients are simply drawn to UpWork. They aren’t just looking for the cheapest: they are looking for the variety.

Note: I am not longer using UpWork, and work 100% on my regular clients and referrals. But there is no way I would have gotten there, or gotten so many skills, without UpWork, so I still think it is the best place to start.

Setting up your profile

Here are three great articles on how to set up a great profile:

Enhance Your Upwork Freelancer Profile for Greater Success

How to Create an Upwork Profile That Gets You Clients, FAST

Sample: Profile

I am not going to rewrite what they’ve said. Because that is a waste of time (hurray for understanding time management!)

But here are my top 6 tips:

Upload a profile picture where you look good. I mean real good. Don’t be an a** about it either. Clean, professional, and hot. That’s all. No party hats or dogs or sunglasses or duck-facey, off camera looks.

Pick 5 skills. Even though they let you have 10: be clear about what you can and want to do. Now, on the topic of skills: you do not need a journalism degree to be a writer. Or a photography degree to manage an Instagram account. Think about the kinds of things you like. Are you a grammar nut? Put those skills to work as an editor. Do you speak multiple langauges fluently? Become a translator. Do you love spreadsheets? That is a freaking skill, (wo)man! Are you generally a happy-go-lucky, I-can-get-shit-done kind of person? Be someone’s personal virtual assistant. You do not have to be defined by what you’ve already done, focus on what you like to do.

Watch out for typos. I was hiring for this client once, and found a woman who was amazing. We had a skype interview and I was ready to sign on the dotting line, but at the last minute, my client looked at her profile and found a typo and said “No.” Simple as that. I was gutted, because she was really fantastic. Have someone proofread your profile, because it’s that easy for potential clients to move on to the next person.

Don’t worry about tests. Very few clients look at them. Or care. Even if you are in the top 5%. They are nice, but also, kind of a waste of time.

Fill in your profile so that your bar goes up to 100%. Just do it. I know it’s work, but you’ll get more clients.

Set a reasonable rate for how long you’ve been on the site. Yes, I know you’d love to be paid $50 and hour, but if you’ve got zero experience or hours, you are not going to get clients. Honestly, start at $7-$10 an hour. Then after your first 100 hours, you can bump your rate up to what you think you should be getting. Why 100 hours? Because it puts you in a different search category: a better one. Wait...what are these search categories? Well, when a client is looking for someone, this is what it looks like:

See that massive jump in the number of Freelancers (the bracket number) on the “Hours Billed” section? That means your competition decreases by more than half, and you can start to get more choosy about your gigs.

On getting hired

Remember that thing I said about hustling? Yep. You’ve got to do that.

But here are some more tips.

Apply, apply, apply. Then apply some more. I don’t even know how many proposals I wrote in those first few weeks, but it was a lot. And here’s the thing, you can’t cheat. You’ve got to read the position, and write to them personally. All the low-end people cut and paste and never move ahead. Put some soul into it, especially at first.

Start small (I mean cheap): Although your insides might be screaming “I AM BETTER THAN THAT.” take 1-3 low paid one-off projects. Get a five-star rating and use it to propel yourself to the next freelancer level.

In the interview process: be as attentive as possible. This means responding right away to messages, and being available for interviews even if the hours are weird (remember the 4am comment? Yeah, I did that once). Follow up with them, and then follow up again. Be impressive.

On working as a freelancer

Wow! Have you gotten a gig? Good job! You rock! From here on in you are kind of a free agent, and it is between you and your client, but here are some tips.

Get really good at online communication. This means responding to emails quickly, and being clear. This means if at any point you don’t understand what your client wants: you ask them before charging them for work they didn’t need or want or is incorrect. Give them your email, Facebook and Skype, and ask them how their team communicates (Google Hangouts? Slack? Basecamp *gulp*) then be there.

Download the time tracker and stick to working when you are working. It takes three seconds to turn off the tracker, check your Facebook, and then turn it on again. But once you get a screen grab of you hanging out on Facebook, it looks bad. Also, I have come to suspect (from being caught more than once) that UpWork automatically looks for you slacking off, ie. Facebook.

Get your hours in. If they have given you hours, they expect the work to be done. Coming back without the work done with excuses and worse, not having filled up your hours? Bad. Remember the thing I said about them dropping you like you’re hot? Get the work done in the hours they’ve given you, or talk with them and discuss with them why you need fewer hours. That is far better than simply coming up short.

Getting good feedback is important. Even if this means swallowing your pride from time to time. Here is what they are going to rate you on:

But wait: why is there public feedback and private feedback? Well, you know how you’ve got that job success thing on the side of your profile? Over time, you get secret points. Those secret points work up to you being featured higher when the clients use the search tool. Also, you’ll get some cool perks in the future, like the Premium Freelancer program.

Lastly, and most importantly: GETTING PAID So, I have to be honest here. I have never fully figured out the timing of the payments. It goes through my PayPal, and whenever it hits a $1000 of earning, it goes into my bank account. There is a bunch of information here though. If you’d like to talk to me privately about payments (ie. Taxes and other trickier areas) feel free to message me.

I hope this gives you enough to get started. As I said before, freelancing is an amazing option if you are done with the office and dream about doing something slightly more, slightly different and have the gumption to do it. If you have any questions, want me to review your profile, or just want to talk more about freelancing— shoot me off a message, I love helping people get one step closer to freedom, be that fiscal or philosophical.

PS. Here is the list of countries I’ve been to while working as a freelancer: Austria, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, England, Faroe Islands, France, Guatemala, Germany, Honduras, Iceland, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States.

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jimtheviking · 6 years

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I’m not used to this

Applied for a permanent, full-time Visitor Experience job in Halifax. Basically the same thing I’m doing now, but at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which means talking about ships and technology and marine exploration and the whole lot. Like, I’ve only been at the museum here for a couple months, but I feel like I need, you know, something new? There’s just something about not having to pick up and move every three or four months that feels...odd to me.

I’ve also been given the chance to work on the collection at work (such as it is - we have no collections management system, so it’s an excel spreadsheet, and there’s like no contact info for donors or the like) which is cool, since that’s what I liked doing the most in Leicester - give me time to research and catalogue, and pay me to do it? Yes please! - but like...it’s supplemental to my VisEx stuff, so I a) don’t get paid extra for it, b) have to do it around my VisEx stuff, and c) won’t be titled something like the Collections Assistant/Exhibits Assistant for a few months at least. That last one is a bit of a stickler for me, because VisEx is great - I love VisEx, I love talking to people and telling them what sort of cool shit we’ve got in our collection, but our collection is...nonexistent, basically, and is rapidly deteriorating because we have no storage facilities for it. So because our CEO thinks collections are “boring and dusty” (that is a real goddamn quote from him at a community meeting) we have a bunch of pretty cool stuff literally mouldering away in an unventilated basement with no climate, light, or humidity controls.

I digress.

VisEx is great, but doing Collections Management is something that I would love to do, too, and if I stay here there’s a chance - however remote - that I might be doing that. But at the same time, unless I can convince these people that a museum, you know, requires a collection and can’t just be a rental hall with a few travelling exhibits and a kid’s play area. And, frankly, the VisEx I do here is more babysitting than actual museology (and there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s definitely not what I expected.)

So yeah, I’m not sure as to what I should do; right now I have a permanent, part time job that may potentially lead to my doing something that I really enjoy, but at the same time, I feel like this opportunity doing something I would enjoy, but not as much as the Collections/Exhibitions stuff, is something I shouldn’t let pass me by if I get it?

I’m not sure.

#Jim the Museologist #long post

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superlinguo · 6 years

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Linguistics jobs - Interview with a Linguistic Project Manager at a Language Tech Company

This month’s interview highlights the increasingly central role of human language in tech, and the important role that linguists can play in the current tech landscape. It’s also been a delight for me to interview Sasha Wilmoth, who I last caught up with when she was taking one of her final undergraduate classes at Melbourne Uni. This interview is also something slightly different, because Sasha is one of a growing number of ‘hybrid’ researchers - working across both the university and private sector. I’ll leave it to her to explain more!

What did you study at university?

I did a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Linguistics, and studied Mandarin and Swedish. I also squeezed in as many literature subjects as I could. Within linguistics, I became interested in the morphology and syntax of Australian Aboriginal languages – my honours thesis was on Murrinhpatha, which is a polysynthetic language spoken in the Northern Territory.

What is your job?

That’s a good question! I think most of my family and friends still don’t really understand what I do for a living.

My time has been split between two jobs this year: I’m a Linguistic Project Manager at a company called Appen, and a Research Assistant within the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL). I’ll just focus on my job at Appen, because it’s a bit further away from academia.

Basically, Appen provides all sorts of data for AI and machine learning, including for speech and language technology. In the Linguistic Services department, we make the specialised annotated data that’s used to train these systems, in whatever language our clients need (we’re up to something like 180 languages and dialects by now). This includes pronunciation lexicons, prosodic annotation, part-of-speech tagging, tokenisation, proofing tools, guidelines, and so on. There are also lots of linguists working in the Data Collection, Transcription, and Translation departments. My job encompasses the technical and linguistic bits, as well as the more typical project management things like planning, budgeting, and delegating tasks.

For example, for a pronunciation lexicon project, which is what I’ve largely been working on, I start by researching the grammar, phonology, orthography and dialects of the language. Based on this research, I figure out what our approach to phonemic transcription will be and come up with some technical tools to predict the pronunciation of the words based on the orthography. I manage a team of linguists around the world who are native speakers of that language, and they check that the pronunciations are correct. Then I do a bunch of quality checks according to what we know about the language and prepare the data for our clients. Recently, I’ve been working on Serbo-Croatian, Persian, and Mandarin projects – as you can imagine, each language presents completely different technical and linguistic challenges.

Appen is an industry partner with CoEDL, so another cool thing I get to do is collaborate with academic linguists and see if we can apply our own processes and problem-solving skills to their research projects.

How does your linguistics training help you in your job?

I’m happy to say that I apply my linguistics education at work every day: I solve linguistic puzzles and read grammars and write phonological rules and use ToBI (a way of transcribing intonation) and the International Phonetic Alphabet. I never managed to become a very fluent Mandarin speaker, but I use that knowledge for our Mandarin and Cantonese projects. I even do a bit of Swedish proof-reading here and there. I didn’t imagine this was possible when I chose this rather impractical combination of subjects.

Do you have any advice you wish someone had given to you about linguistics/careers/university?

I know some previous interviewees have said they wish they had been more aware of the (lack of) job prospects for linguists. I’m stubborn though, and I was determined to study what I was most interested in without taking into account career prospects. I’m really glad I made that choice (and had the privilege to do so), because there are actually more opportunities outside of academia than I thought. The future for linguists in industry is bright, as we’ll be using speech more and more to interface with our phones, cars, toasters, personal robot servants, etc.

Most linguistics students don’t end up working as linguists, so it’s wise to keep your options open. But if you’re motivated and can’t think of anything else you’d rather be doing, there are jobs out there – I wish I had known about them when I was at uni. It’s really important to seek out and take advantage of opportunities for students like summer research programs, internships, or volunteering with organisations like RNLD here in Melbourne. Get to know your lecturers and tutors and ask them what you can get involved in.

Any other thoughts or comments?

Just a note on working in tech: I don’t have a computer science background, and I’ve never been a big computer nerd. I’ve learned everything on the job, and it turns out I quite like computers after all. If you have the type of pattern-finding brain that linguists tend to have, chances are you might enjoy the technical side of things when it’s applied to something interesting. Developing some technical skills as a student can help you in many career paths, but it’s not an absolute necessity. If you’re looking for a place to start: regular expressions, bash, and Python are all very useful and relatively easy to learn.

Previously:

Interview with a Data Scientist

Interview with a Librarian

Interview with a Text Analyst

Interview with a User Experience (UX) Researcher

Interview with a Study Abroad Facilitator

Interview with The Career Linguist

Interview with a local radio Digital Managing Editor

Check out the Linguist Jobs tag for more interviews

#linguistics #linguistics jobs #linguist jobs #careers #tumblinguists #lingblr #research assistant #work #tech #language tech #coding

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dr-dendritic-trees · 7 years

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I recently read your post regarding majoring in neuroscience and am considering getting my bachelors degree in neuroscience. The clinical side of things doesn't really interest me much and I'd rather avoid it, instead going into more research based work. Would you mind telling me about the mechanics of research adjacent careers and what sort of degrees would be required for such? Thank you.

This is the career path I set out on. Its tough but its also amazing. Good choice anon.

If you’re going into research you’re going to be getting a Ph.D. So you’ll get your bachelors in Neuroscience, then a Master’s, then a Ph.D. In some places you’ll have the option to skip the Masters. This is what I did, but actually I regret it.

I had a bunch of research experience and new I wanted a PhD, but even so, the learning curve from ‘summer research student’ to ‘PhD student’ is REALLY sharp. So I wouldn’t recommend going that route unless you’re completely sure you want a PhD and you handle adapting to new situations really well (I don’t, but some people do). If not, start in the Masters program and you’ll almost always be able to roll directly into a PhD if you decide to do that.

If you stay in academic research once you’ve got a PhD you’ll find a series of Post Doctoral Fellowships. These are short term 1-3 year positions where you work in someone else’s lab and gain experience and publications. Most pepole now days do 2, I’ve heard of people doing 3, be prepared to move, potentially internationally to new positions. Then, once you’ve done some post-docs you apply for an assistant professorship. If you get one, you get some start up funds to start a lab, hire some students and post docs of your own and start your own research and win your own grant funding. This is the end of your bench research career, from this point on you’re running a lab, teaching, training students and getting more funding for the majority of your time. If you succeed you tick a long on the tenure track, being promoted to associate and then full professor (typically). But winning grant funding is HARD and its getting worse. Fair warning.

If you flee academia but want to stay nearby to research you can move into corporate research of course, I know very little about what it takes to get and keep a job at a pharmaceutical company, but I do know they generally require a PhD. So you don’t need to decide until then. Some of them may want or prefer you have a Post-Doc as well.

There’s also a relatively new offshoot of the standard professor path into a position called a Staff Scientist. These positions are rare but getting more common and they’re someone who works in another person’s lab like a post doc but has the full rights and benefits and salary of a professor. To be a staff scientist you’ll need a PhD and probably at least one post-doc.

Another parallel career is Medical Writers, Science Writers and Journal Editing staff. Once again, these generally want a PhD and will often benefit from a PostDoc.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions.

#neuroscience #Anonymous

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junker-town · 4 years

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Who’s more valuable for the Utah Jazz, Donovan Mitchell or Rudy Gobert?

Which of the two stars on the Utah Jazz is more valuable?

The Utah Jazz have two great stars. Which one is more valuable?

Since the curtain closed on Karl Malone and John Stockton’s partnership nearly two decades ago, the Utah Jazz have only sent five players to the All-Star game: Andrei Kirilenko (2004), Mehmet Okur (2007), Carlos Boozer (2007, 2008), Deron Williams (2010, 2011), and Gordon Hayward (2017).

This year Utah has Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, two strong candidates with unique qualities none of those aforementioned All-Stars ever had. Both are deserving on a second place, 28-12 steamroller that’s won 10 in a row and has led the NBA in net rating for a month. There’s easily a world where both qualify, but the field is crowded, with solid cases to be made for several non-lock hopefuls such as Karl-Anthony Towns, Chris Paul, Devin Booker, Russell Westbrook, DeMar DeRozan, Brandon Ingram, and a couple others.

For the sake of conversation we’ll operate under the assumption that coaches will only vote one Jazz player in. And for reasons that go beyond surface-level frivolousness implied by this sort of thought exercise, I’ve spent way too much time wondering who it will be. The following questions don’t necessarily apply to choosing an All-Star off half-a-season’s worth of action, but allow for more important issues to be explored on the journey towards an answer: Who is more essential to Utah’s identity? Who raises their ceiling? Who stabilizes their floor? Who is better?

Before I sat down to actually do research for this piece my answer to most of these questions was split, with a slight tilt towards Mitchell. Chalk that up to offensive bias, youth, and him occupying a role that’s harder to replace, but after I dug through numbers, watched a bunch of Jazz games, and talked to a few people around the team, parsing out an advantage one way or another quickly became impossible.

Let’s start with a look at Gobert, a 27-year-old on track to win his third-straight Defensive Player of the Year award and a fourth-straight first-place finish in defensive real plus-minus. Unimpeachable dominance on half his team’s possessions isn’t the only reason Gobert stands out among his peers. The guy brings it on the other end, every night, knowing there won’t be more than three or four plays called for him to score. His usage rate has never cleared 17.5 percent. This year it’s 16.6, below Ivika Zubac, Bismack Biyombo, Mason Plumlee, and, of all people, Al Horford.

And when his number does get called it’s usually circa deception, with him cutting off a back screen, hands raised for an easy dunk.

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Gobert’s effort is critical because he also happens to be at the crux of everything the Jazz want to do with the ball. They lead the league in possessions finished by a pick-and-roll ball-handler because Gobert is the best screen setter in the league, and capable of not only sucking help defenders in from the corners but also occupying his own man’s attention.

This is his third-straight season leading the league in screen assists, while averaging a full two more than he did last year. Whether he’s dancing with Mitchell, Joe Ingles, Bojan Bogdanovic, or even a newcomer like Jordan Clarkson, when the ball-handler and Gobert read the same sheet of music there’s very little two defenders can do to stop it.

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Without him the Jazz would have to change everything about how they play, from the carefully plotted dribble hand-offs to their conservatively taut approach towards getting stops. (Utah’s defense is first in location effective field goal percentage, which basically means they do a better job than anyone at forcing opponents to take shots they don’t want to take.) He seems stronger this year, committed to his role with an admirable discipline that gives the Jazz a threshold they can’t sink below when he’s on the court.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t several small drawbacks that accumulate in an unfortunate way during the playoffs. All those hard rolls that prevent his man from selling out to stop the ball go stagnant against teams that are happy to switch the screen. Gobert doesn’t post up—Aron Baynes averages twice as many per game—because he isn’t graceful doing it. Turnovers are a common occurrence, especially against smaller defenders who step up without fear.

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Gobert led the league in field goal percentage last year and he’s currently making 67.6 percent of his 8.6 shots per game—something that’s never been done (non-Wilt Chamberlain division)—but he can’t score efficiently without assistance, and is a liability dribbling the ball with his face towards the basket while 20 feet from the rim. That hurts. Space creation is synonymous with effective offense in a playoff series, and for all Gobert’s activity—how he screens away, cuts at the right time, and hunts every missed shot—he still can’t make defenders who ignore him pay with a reliable jumper. In that way he’s not Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, or Towns.

Defensively, he’s still vulnerable in space, which forces the Jazz to drop him back into the paint against pick-and-rolls, regardless of how lethal the opposing ball-handler’s pull-up three might be. That lessens his flexibility in certain matchups, but it’s not powerful enough to disqualify Utah from title contention or anything like that.

It’s easier to appreciate Gobert’s awesomeness if you watch a lot of Utah Jazz basketball. If not, it’s easy to gloss over his strengths and scrutinize his weaknesses. There’s something antiquated about Gobert’s game, which is in the mold of an entire class of centers who came before him. But right now he is the A+ iteration. If you’re going to have any one big who rim runs, sets screens, protects the basket, grabs 15 rebounds a night, and can’t shoot but doesn’t wish or pretend he could, there’s no better option.

As a counter to Gobert’s subtle, steady impact stands Mitchell, an infinity-pool-tucked-inside-a-wine-cave luxury for a team that already has enough shooting and playmakers to manufacture solid offense for 3.5 quarters. Mitchell envelops the Jazz in his own panache whenever he’s on the floor, but when their system stalls in crunch time he asserts his greatest value (only Zach LaVine and Chris Paul have taken more clutch shots all season) and becomes the shot-creating privilege Utah needs if it wants to win it all.

Mitchell’s 24.2 points per game are attached to a star’s sheen that can’t be discounted and is nearly impossible to replace. He puts constant pressure on the opponent, be it with the 8.8 field goal attempts he gets from driving the ball (third most this season) or pulling up on defenders who have to respect that first step. His 51.5 effective field goal percentage on off-the-dribble shots is near the top of the league.

Every team wants a player who can make broken possessions look like they’re part of the game plan. Mitchell already does.

He’s able to inflict trauma with gymnastic feats that tug at the sleeve of his team’s patient offensive structure. (The Jazz rank dead last in transition frequency, per Cleaning the Glass.) More often than not that creates an advantage, but sometimes it’s a defect. Mitchell’s shot selection can be erratic, set to a rhythm that’s outside the game’s. To actually make his first All-Star team he will have to clear two of Booker, Ingram, and Paul. That’s not impossible, even though he’s the least efficient of the four by a decent margin.

Mitchell can get buckets in a variety of electrifying ways and he throws passes that are incomprehensible when seen live.

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But his playmaking is still more sizzle than substance. For every pinpoint frozen rope that he’ll whip to a teammate who’s just barely open, Mitchell will launch three off-the-dribble jump shots that bail out the defense. Impatience is understandable for someone with whom the laws of gravity do not apply, but that’s one area where marked improvement can make him flawless.

“It takes some time to find yourself in new situations, in order to get better at them,” Jazz head coach Quin Snyder said. “So some things you can’t rush, and I think he’s recognizing more of those ... whether it be making a pass that’s more accurate in a situation or all kinds of little nuances that he’s recognizing and working on and taking a lot of pride in.”

As he matures, Mitchell will get a better sense of when it’s acceptable to yank the pin from a grenade and toss it into a possession, and when he just needs to flow inside Utah’s action—integral but not overwhelming.

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Until that balance is discovered, it’s OK to wonder the degree to which Mitchell actually makes his teammates better—a question that does not apply to Gobert, whose sheer activity raises everybody else’s floor.

When stacking Gobert’s value beside Mitchell’s, it’s worth noting that Utah’s net rating goes from +11.4 to -3.8 points per 100 possessions when the dynamic combo guard is without his anchor. Flip them around and Utah is still +5.3 points per 100 possessions when Gobert plays without Mitchell.

That disparity is noisy but also not the world’s biggest coincidence. And even though I’d prefer having Mitchell on my team for the next five years—particularly in the playoffs—it’s impossible to deny Gobert’s centripetal impact on his team’s foundational success. He’s less glamorous than every other All-Star candidate, but it’s so hard to picture the Jazz actually getting better on one side of the ball if he missed significant time with an injury, as the Minnesota Timberwolves have since Towns went down over a month ago.

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wearethemockingjays · 7 years

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This is just kinda me reflecting over how 3 years ago was my first day of college and everything that’s changed since then

It’s honestly crazy how much life can change in 3 years. 3 years ago today was my first day of college. The day before I just accidentally joined a sorority (because I rushed just to move in early and I kinda just continued in it). I was super shy and not at all confident. I came into school wanting to be a forensic psychologist. I didn’t really have any concrete goals and was kinda choosing it just because I liked criminal minds. High school I never tried and by not trying I mean I got a D in an elective cause I didn’t feel like doing the final project. Well the first semester wasn’t the best for me. I would get too nervous going to the sorority house to make friends and would just not go. I spent most of my freshman year depressed and gained 30 pounds in a 3 1/2 month span. Before the first semester ended I decided i’d push myself to graduate early. The main reason behind this was I wasn’t really enjoying my time at FSU it was a big party school and i’m not a fan of partying. I had looked into transferring schools but decided not to because I didn’t want people thinking I couldn’t handle it. A homework assignment was to apply to psychology lab towards the end of the semester. And I somehow got into one and decided why not i’ll try working in a lab. Well winter break came and I was going back home to New York, which means I had to wear thicker clothes. Aka jeans and jackets which I realized no longer fit me, really made me take in the weight gain. I decided that the spring semester to try to go to the gym. Now first day of spring semester I walk into a sorority chapter meeting and people came up to me saying how they missed me and asking about my break. And it hit me that people cared about me. Working in the lab I loved during breaks we would all hang in the research assistant room goofing off. I decided to finalize double majoring in psychology and criminology about then. Soon I decided that I wanted to be a clinical psychologist and realized how much work that took and how selective the program was. So i put the pedal to the metal and started working my ass off. On the working out front I started dieting and went to the gym 6 days a week, I wound up losing 25 pounds that semester. I found working out was really helping with the depression. It was my area of stress relief taking 18 credits and working. That summer I took 12 credits at a community college so I could stay at home. My parents moved right after I graduated high school so that’s all I really did.

Well sophomore year comes along, but before that happens theres sorority recruitment. the week before that is basically training to talk for a week straight. These hell weeks low key changed my life. All of the sudden I was able to talk to anyone and I felt more confident in myself. All of the sudden talking to strangers came naturally and I wasn’t freakin out. This whole week I never thought about the pressing issue of what if I don’t get into grad school (which consumed every waking second of my brain all of college). I was laughing with new friends and my previous friends and I had a stronger bond. This semester I was taking 18 credits and working in 2 labs. Little did I know that one of these labs would change my life. My professor expected a lot from me but it lead to me presenting at international conferences in Japan and Chicago. In the lab I was studying PTSD which is what I thought I wanted to do. Soon I became pretty bored but kept pushing cause hey it was my dream to be a clinical psychologist for the army. Fast forward spring semester I’ve signed up for the GRE and i’m taking a class called Minorities Crime, and Social Policy. For this class we had the opportunity to volunteer at a local low income school. I found myself so happy when I was there and when I’d return. I thought nothing of it and continued with my clinical psychologist dream. I took the GRE during spring break so I was ready for the grad school application process. A couple weeks later I started looking into possible career options involving schools seeing that I really loved working with these kids. Starting the summer semester I was still freaking out about what future to choose. I hadn’t heard of school psychology yet and decided on child clinical psych. That summer I took a class mentoring minority males (taught by the same professor as the last one). We learned a lot about the school to prison pipeline and I was so intruged by it I started watching so many documentaries and looking it up. I knew this was what I wanted to do with my life. (writing this i’m thinking I should really email the professor that taught these classes to tell him about his impact). Well I traveled alone to chicago to present at a conference and visited LOYOLA chicago to talk about their school psych program to dip my toes in like will this allow me to help stop the school to prison pipeline. The conversation I had got me so excited for the future I was almost giddy I knew what I needed to do with the rest of my life.

About a month later was the start of my senior year and I was really starting to regret the whole graduating early thing because I was having the time of my life at FSU. But it was too late and I was rocketing into the future. Applying to grad school was hell and I was always freaking out about not getting in which lead me to also apply to teach for america like jobs. (fun fact actually got accepted to one) Writing my personal statement came oddly easy. I went to a bunch of places to get it looked at and people said they could see my passion through it and that’s something I couldn’t fake. I was excited and ready to go. While all this was going on I was living at cafes with my friends and having a great time. early spring semester was interview time and I got invited to interview with 4/5 schools I applied to. (I was happy the one that I didn’t get an interview with was the #1 school and I was just curious if I could get in.) I was freaking out but soon I found out I got into NC State. I remember being in bed and seeing that email I ran into the living room and started screaming and jumping around the living room with my roommates. Everything I worked for was there and wasn’t pointless. Even though I was super excited it hit me I was leaving tallahassee and I wasn’t ready. The last month I wound up getting a semi colon tattoo in an arrow. I got the tattoo with one of my sorority littles. Having the tattoo something from tallahassee will always be with me and reminds me to always aim higher and serves the purpose to start the conversation of mental illness with people around me that asked about the tattoo. (seeing it now it also oddly reminds me that I can make decisions like getting a tattoo and that i’m in control of myself) I loved my life and all the people around me but in the end it was time to continue on in life.

Now i’m sitting in my apartment in North Carolina done with my second week of grad school. I just got a job this week and will be starting next week. Sitting in my classes I know i’m in the right place and i’m confident with myself and can talk to a wall. So much has happened in the last 3 years I can’t believe it’s only been 3 years but I know I am where I am supposed to be.

#dear whoevers listening #this is really long and im really writing it for future me to look back at tbh

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vergelle · 5 years

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Iloilo-Guimaras Weekend

Three weeks ago, I flew out of the city to explore Iloilo. I was pretty excited about the trip because my visits to a new place were always with company, or if I’m alone, they were always to places I’ve been to before.

I haven’t been to Iloilo before. I was alone. Save for a high school workshop where I was invited to speak, I had no itinerary and practically zero knowledge of Iloilo. It was to be my latest adventure!

Iloilo is an easy start for inexperienced solo travelers. From the time I boarded in Pasay to when I reached my hotel, I kept bumping into strangers who wanted to help out. Someone at the boarding gate prematurely offered me a ride to my hotel (but he had a motorcycle and I had a luggage), two guys assisted me with my boarding pass which was electronic and didn’t have the “group number” I needed for queueing, another two guys helped put things in the overhead cabin. My seatmates were also friendly -- a kind lady who came from a physician convention, and a call center agent who flew in to apply for a fiancée visa. They were both concerned about how I was getting to my hotel at the wee hours. Apparently, they thought I was 18 year old, an assumption that didn’t surprise me as much as it surprised them to know that I’m actually older than Lovely, the call center agent. Two more guys helped Lovely and me at the carousel, and the last one even accompanied me, by Lovely’s instructions, when I hailed the two rides I needed to get to the hotel.

Finally reaching my room at 12 midnight. Yes, I took a lot of selfies during this trip.

I decided then to let go of any apprehensions during this trip and welcome all the help that strangers would offer. Iloilo is a safe space, even for a possibly credulous tourist like me. “This is the city of love, after all,” Lovely told me.

After dedicating the next day for a bit of work, I eventually pulled myself to explore in the afternoon, which turned into a heritage tour of sorts. I went to the Jaro Cathedral, accidentally walked by the original Biscocho Haus where I bought pasalubong, and ended up visiting Casa Mariquit, the old house of Fernando Lopez, longest serving vice president of the Republic, and his wife, Mariquit.

I went to the esplanade next, a 1.2-km promenade along the Iloilo River that the city boasts of as proof of its people-friendly urban design. Seeing students practicing for a school performance, some men idly fishing by the river, joggers and couples lounging, I felt a tinge of envy that they have the esplanade to enjoy. I can’t imagine having that luxury back in Manila. Then again, it’s probably not just about how our city is structured but also about how we design our everyday lives. We’ve crammed not just our space but also our schedules that we have to escape from the busyness from time to time.

Walking past the esplanade, I joined a number of people on their own excursions to Molo Church. The bell beckoned for the 6 pm mass. I found myself paced with an old lady who was also on her way to the church, and without doubt, a good-natured small talk ensued.

We crossed the road to the park in front of the church, and as the square presented itself before my eyes, I noticed couples chatting, girls playing volleyball in the clearing between the trees, an old lady sitting on the bench with her basket of chicharon, the old man she was chatting with, and the massgoers entering the big church doors one by one. I took it all in. The place was buzzing with carefree life.

I dropped by the adoration chapel, strolled in the Molo Museum across the church, feasted on a good KBL soup, then went home to prepare for the next quick trip in the morning.

Before the sun was out, I was ready for my taxi ride. I hailed Kuya Roy’s taxi the day before, and he offered me a ride after hearing my idea of a quick tour of Guimaras, the province a few minutes away from Iloilo by boat. Kuya Roy picked me up and dropped me off at the wharf. From there I figured my way by following the people, mostly teachers, on their daily commute to the island. I took the boat with them, then rented a tricycle to take me to the beach and back.

We traveled 25 kilometers south of the wharf, passing by a lot of schools getting filled for the morning ceremonies. Then finally, we reached the Raymen Beach, practically empty on a Monday. Understandably so. I figured, since I took the effort to visit, I could rent a boat for myself. So I requested for one, handed my camera over to one of the boatmen, and hopped on. I asked them to take me to the nice places within the time that I could allot for the day.

With just a little over an hour of island hopping, I managed to swim in Baras Cave, walk along the shores of Natago Beach, and just enjoyed the rest of the view from the boat. Of course, I knew I had to come back, with friends next time.

Sadly, I forgot to take a group photo with my small crew and had only a bunch of solo photos (after teaching one of the boatmen a little of what I know about composition, he took free rein of my camera). Traveling alone and looking young, I piqued their curiosity, so I told a bit of my story, and they shared theirs. One of them was just three days into the job, having been working in the tuna fishing industry for the past thirty years till he AWOL-ed for personal reasons.

Upon returning to Raymen Beach, I showered, left, and went back to the wharf. I dropped by a monastery that sells some famous mango delicacies, and asked the driver for a quick tour of a mango production and research center that caught my eye on our way.

And then came the last day, the main reason for my visit to Iloilo. I was to give a talk to eighth grade students. Giving talks to the youth about waste and sustainability--topics I have much to say about--gives me a bit of a high. While my job requires me to be many things: a researcher, a project manager, a lobbyist or a communicator, talking to the youth allows me to just be me. I get to be anecdotal, passionate, and real because the only thing I wish to achieve is to inspire. The rest of the work in the field -- to study, to network, to communicate -- are things that a person inspired enough can already do.

I think I had been able to do that job. The plenary that followed had to be extended because the students were not running out of questions to ask. And the questions were mostly important and deep. Who pays the cost of sustainability? Are we really being pro-poor? I wanted to cry and tell them their hearts are in the right place, because these are the questions we are also trying to answer every time we come up with possible solutions to pitch.

These were the brightest kids of their batch, after all.

Though I may have traveled for work with a bit of touring squeezed in (or vice-versa, whichever way you look at it hahaha), the quick getaway was more than enough to recharge me. I packed my things after the workshop, texted some of the friends I made in Iloilo that I’ll be leaving, and flew back to Manila. Ready to face again the daily grind of the career I chose.

#rough draft #personal #professional

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