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kissmyshnymetalass · 3 years

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Military Transition Information

Sections:

- Actual GOMOR

- REFRAD

- SFL-TAP

- Resources

- General Separation Tips

- Job Hunting and Resume

- LinkedIn

- Other Job Hunting Sites (ZipRecruiter/Clearance Jobs/etc)

- Certifications

ACTUAL GOMOR Nothing to say about this really. It is what it is. You can’t fight it. My parents hired some hot shot civilian lawyer who was horribly expensive but there wasn’t anything he could do about it. Ultimately it all comes down to the fact that it isn’t LAW. It is UCMJ and there’s nothing to fight. Your command team has that power. They just do. It is pure bullshit. It drives me crazy. You could try writing your congress person or the army times to put the spotlight on unfair, maddening, preposterous nonsense judgmental decisions but…otherwise you’re boned. My recommendation is to keep your head down and try not to freak out. When my battalion commander told me it would be permanently filed I had a total rage glitch and yelled at him. Did not improve my position, ha. See if you can get moved to another battalion or brigade. That’s a big ask because you’re now branded. But if anyone is still in your corner (a Battalion XO or S3 or even a S1 who is respected and will advocate for you. Maybe the Brigade FSO if you have a good reputation) it can give you breathing room to no longer be in that environment. I had pull with division and was able to get onto staff up there after my flag was lifted. They knew I was only there to transition and were really cool about it- your mileage may vary. REFRAD

The first step is to get a copy of the REFRAD packet. It is mainly memos. Your S1 should have a copy. Then clarify what gates it has to hit (Battalion to Brigade to Division to Installation to HRC I’m pretty sure) and who the people are. You can do this while you’re flagged (if you’re flagged which I assume you are). You can’t submit until you’re unflagged but you can do drafts and send them to the S1 to get corrections. I’d let your command know of your intent to separate if you have any kind of ability to talk to them and let them know you’d appreciate if they could sign this stuff right away. I made it overwhelmingly clear that I disagreed with their handling of the situation and would like to just get out of there as fast as possible. They obliged by signing everything without the “required” counseling sessions.

I submitted mine on like July 6th or 7th and received my approval from HRC O/A 20 August but had to hand walk it. Basically had to call the S1 shop at Battalion every day until they routed to Brigade. Then the same thing with Brigade. Then with Installation. Etc. It is just best to be a pain in the ass about it because otherwise it can get stuck at a gate and require corrections and you’ll just never know about it because S1 sucks, ha. After you get your approval from HRC you still have to wait to get clearing papers and orders. That can take a while. I’m pretty sure I had my orders 9-10 days after getting approval and was given clearing papers six working days before my final out (which was around 16 October). SFL-TAP SFL-TAP was stupid but you may see benefits. There were a couple of contractors hunting for separating Soldiers so you maybe you’ll meet someone like that. Otherwise SFL-TAP went over pretty basic stuff like “consider benefits in addition to salary when job hunting” or “here’s what to wear.” It was FINE. But I wouldn’t say that officers are really the target audience. They will expose you to a few transition assistance programs which could be helpful though. Like I think there is a Microsoft administrator course that is 3-4 months you can do that SFL-TAP can give you info about. Other things like credentialing programs, certification courses, job fairs, etc. I did not use any of these services but I have heard they can be helpful. RESOURCES YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT, YMMV ACP Partnerships. American Corporate Partners. Basically you can apply on their website and they can hook you up with a mentor in your preferred field. I did this and it was fine. I received a mentor but she wasn’t super helpful. I think your experience really depends on your mentor. I’ve heard from others that their mentors are awesome. The nice thing about this is that they assign you a mentorship manager and that person will be very aggressive about providing you with resources (interview prep, resume reviewer, etc)

Corporate Fellowship Program. You can visit hiringourheroes.org. They can basically set you up with a corporate internship. Usually reserved for service members who are going to stay geographically close to their installation. Once again, I did not use this service but I have heard GREAT things and have a close friend who participated and she raves about it. Cameron Brooks/other junior officer recruitment companies. I did Cameron Brooks for a few months. I did not tell them about the GOMOR, ha. Didn’t mention the flag at all. They won’t call your command or anything so I just viewed it as keeping non-essential information to myself. It was also fine. It is free. They will give you books to read and counsel you and do interview prep and everything. It is a nice service. They told me they only “accept the best” as clients. Probably not true so don’t let them convince you they are some secret sauce. They just have a very codified approach. I have heard from others that they can land you in a good job but most are in less desirable locations (like the mid-west. Or Kansas). If you are afraid of transitioning this is kind of nice. Like having a bossy older brother who “knows a guy.” Other Useful “Leaving the Army” Tips Make sure you have a log in to mypay set up. Once you final out your CAC won’t work anywhere. Forward yourself anything in your military email that you may need or want. Download your medical records. Set up a DS login. Stuff like that. I lost a lot because I never did it. Oh well. But learn from my experience, ha. Print off your clothing record and do CIF prep now. At my last installation they wouldn’t make me a CIF appointment until the last six workdays I was in the Army and I had to go back three or four times and it was stressful. Do your homework and equipment cleaning now. All in all it wasn’t too bad. Military surplus stores will work with you. The one near me let me take what I needed from them for free (like a sleeping mat, grenade pouch and ACU print assault pack) with the agreement that once I was cleared I would give them all remaining equipment I had. They made out big in that deal because after a decade I had a ton of shit. Do all the basics. Clean your stuff, get rid of tape residue, etc. Job Hunting and Resumes Oh job hunting. You son of a bitch. First things first, get LinkedIn. Get Premium. I’m pretty sure you can do this for free as a service member but I’m not sure how. I will go into way more LinkedIn detail in a moment. I started job hunting in August. It took three months to find a job. It was NOT easy. You need to write a resume. There are countless agencies who will review it for you for free. There is certainly someone in your SFL-TAP staff who will review your resume. Don’t worry- they will broadcast who they are. I’m sure if you reached out now they could send you examples and review your stuff. Get a lot of eyes on it. Friends, parents, those who have transitioned. If you have any friends in HR have them look at it. De-militarize it. You need to be submitting applications every day. I had a goal to apply to at least one job every day and generally applied to 3 or 5 each day. I applied to 200-300 jobs easily. I received rejections from around 100. The others didn’t even bother letting me know. Of those applications I had the most luck if I went to their LinkedIn page and found someone in HR and introduced myself and offered to provide any additional information. I scheduled around 12 interviews and made it to the second round for 4. Was ultimately offered two jobs in the same week at my price point but it took work.

Find recruiters on LinkedIn. Basically you can search for recruiters in your preferred area. Just add them. Add whoever. And send them an email. I did this and probably met with 10-15 recruiters. None of them were able to place me but talking to them was good. They can help you figure out how to present your skill sets and will send you resumes to review/copy and will sometimes review your resume for you. They WANT to place you because that’s what makes them money so don’t feel weird about reaching out to them. Talking to them is also good general interview prep because they ask most of the same questions an interviewing company would ask.

When applying for a specific job read the posting and then incorporate as many of the words they use IN THE FORMAT THEY USE THEM into your resume. They will almost certainly filter your application through a software designed to separate those totally unqualified. For instance, if you hold a project management certification and on your resume you write PMP Certified but in the job description they say “Project management professional certification preferred” then go back to your resume and change PMP to Project Management Professional.

Biggest piece of advice here is Don’t Give Up. It is soul crushing. You will feel panicked and shitty and underqualified. That’s normal from what I hear. Don’t marry yourself to the first job. I’ve heard from professional recruiters that companies are more likely to hire a veteran after he/she has successfully held a civilian job for one year after separation. My advice would be to accept a job that pays you fairly for the security and reassess after a year. There’s absolutely no problem with changing jobs later. LinkedIn Fuck you, LinkedIn. LinkedIn is such bullshit. But civilians are rock fucking hard for it. So get a LinkedIn. Make sure everything is up to date. Have a picture- NOT a military picture. The same boring one everyone has on LinkedIn. You’re wearing a tie. You’re smiling like a goober. Write all the bullshit nonsense about how you’re a trendsetter and a problem solver and an out of the box thinker. Really sell yourself. Make connections. Make as many connections as you can. For some reason you seem more hireable when you have a ton of connections. Find recruiters and add them. Find people who are doing the thing you want to do in the city you want to do it in and add them. Interact with people. It is all a show but just do it because that’s the game and the prize for winning the game is a nice salary and a successful transition. Find all of the companies who typically hire vets if you’re interested in that. Deloitte, Raytheon, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, etc. Most recruiters associated with these organizations put out content regularly that’s aimed at transitioning service members. They will host classes and online information sessions. Attend them. Follow the advice of the recruiters. All advise basically boils down to market yourself, make connections, expand your network, tailor your resume, follow up in a personal way to applications (contacting HR people or recruiters within the company), send out resumes daily, interview well, repeat, repeat, repeat.

Get premium so you can see who looks at your profile. Other Job Hunting Sites/Resources I actually got my job using ZipRecruiter, not LinkedIn. So I would definitely use ZipRecruiter. You can use ClearanceJobs if you have a clearance. You should go to whichever state you want to work in’s website as well because they’ll post local jobs (like working as a project manager for the department of transportation in Kentucky or whatever). I received a few interviews (well, 2) doing this. I think because it is kind of a pain in the ass to apply that way. Look at universities and hospitals in your preferred area. Often the jobs they post don’t make it onto other sites. Follow companies you’d like to work for on LinkedIn. Sometimes organizations will advertise openings that don’t make it to the LinkedIn job search function for some reason. Instead they’ll make a post about an opening and the link will take you directly to their website. Certifications Probably didn’t need this whole section but…get certs. They both matter and they don’t matter. I don’t think my certs really helped me get my job but they certainly didn’t hurt. PMP (as aforementioned) is a big one.

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createinfinity · 5 years

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*just throws the whole Mun talks about the Muse list in here for Rokku bc OCs need more love*

mun talks about the muse

first of all, it has to be said that i love lucy okay. you’re the best. i’ll put some of it under a cut because it’s gonna be a lot.

✍ favourite thing about writing the muse?

their empathy and compassion. rokku is confusing and frustrating and nosy and annoying, but they care so much. they have so much emotional intelligence and they love people. their quirk has very little combat application but they somehow make it work, and they’re going to be such a good hero. they’re going to be some kid with a non combat quirk’s favourite hero and they’re going inspire them to be a hero too. despite all their insecurities, rokku is just so inherently good. they’d do anything for the people that they care about, and i love writing a character who contains so much love in such a skinny little noodle body.

👀 favourite thing about the muse’s appearance?

their eyes. those big old green eyes. they’re so pretty.

🧥 favourite outfit for the muse?

this emoji won’t load, but whatever.

for this i’m not sure? probably one of their ballgowns from the fantasy verse tbh. in terms of canon verse, i suck at dressing people but rokku has impeccable fashion sense so i don’t really know what their day to day wardrobe looks like as a result.

🌌 favourite alternate version of the muse?

fantasy, definitely. fantasy rokku is so much fun to write. they’re quite different to canon rokku, and i love all of those little differences. figuring them out is a lot of fun, but at their core they’re still rokku. they’re still frustrating and energetic and confusing, they’re just better at hiding what they’re really feeling.

plus, they have a tiny dragon that screams. how could i not love that?

💕 favourite ship for the muse?

i honestly can’t choose. i love all of my rokku ships so much, for different reasons. they all make sense in their different, varying ways, and i just. i love them.

💔 least favourite ship for the muse?

i don’t have one currently on my blog, but honestly the only ships that would be an absolute hard no from the get go would be with adults. i’d be at least open to discussing and/or exploring other ships, even if in the end they don’t work out.

💢 something about the muse that annoys you?

rokku has no sense of boundaries. because their quirk allows them to access anywhere, they just stroll on in to places. they have no concept of why anyone would want to keep something locked away because locks have never stopped them. i know it’d drive me absolutely up the wall. they mean well, though.

😈 worst thing you’ve ever done to your muse?

there is actually a whole future plot line that involves a pro hero rokku infiltrating a villain ring. their quirk is of value to them, and with their skill at disguise and the fact that their true identity is a closely guarded secret, they’re the best bet the heroes have. unfortunately, the villains have a mole and are well aware that rokku is coming, and rokku ends up being taken hostage and tortured. part of this involves cutting off the ends of all of their fingers, rendering them quirkless.

they get prosthetics - i figure in this future society, fingertip prosthetics would be a feasible thing - and although they still help out on missions where their hacking skills are of value, they actually end up going back to ua to teach. but yes, the worst thing i’ve done to my muse, although i’ve never actually written it, is have them tortured and made quirkless.

😂 funniest thing that’s ever happened to your muse?

hmm. it still makes me giggle to remember that the reason that rokku is able to even fight at all is because they glittered bombed yamikumo - @quirkless-wonder - and so he dragged their scrawny arse to the training field. it was the perfect kind of karma.

💡 what inspires you to write the muse?

rokku is honestly just really fun to write. i initially wanted to play an oc because that’s what i was the most comfortable doing, and i just kind of fell in love with them. i love playing someone with a passive quirk who is still working to be a hero, and exploring the kinds of things they’d be able to do. pro hero rokku is a riot.

📷 favourite picture/screencap of your muse?

this one! i wasn’t able to find the original screencap, since i probably deleted it, but this one has so much rokku energy in it. when i think of them, this is always the first screencap i think of. happy lil noodle.

📑 favourite part of your muse’s backstory?

rokku never really had any friends until they got to ua. they were picked on for being skinny, and being different, and for their quirk. they were told that they’d never be a hero, because how could they. it’s this part of their backstory that gives them all their insecurities, but keeps them determinedly pushing on anyway, because they’re gonna prove all those people wrong if its the last thing they do.

📝 favourite head canon for your muse?

that they ask for, and are granted, exemption from the sports festival.

rokku is well aware of their own limitations, and they know that they’re never going to be the kind of hero that excels at something like the sports festival. it makes a lot more sense for them to not take part, and to keep their identity hidden. as a pro, rokku is a wealth of information - floor plans, villain quirks, access to security cameras - and they know that it will make them a target, so their true identity is very carefully guarded as a result.

aizawa is so impressed with their self awareness and pragmatism that he gets them an internship with the underground hero network, which is where they end up working as a pro.

😒 is there anything canon about your muse that you ignore?

the fact that they aren’t really canon.

🔮 what do you see in your muse’s future?

happiness. so much happiness. happiness and a job as a hero that they love. they work as a comms expert for an underground hero agency, seeing the field as and when they’re needed. their work is one of the very few things in life that rokku takes seriously, as everyone that works with them speaks very highly of them as a result. rokku is an absolute force to be reckoned with - they have a niche, and they are very good at what they do.

🔥 unpopular opinion about your muse?

rokku replacing mineta when?

i kid, i kid. i don’t know if i have any? they’re mine. all my opinions are therefore simultaneously popular and unpopular.

💭 favourite memory of the muse?

when they were sad as a child, rokku’s parents would make blanket forts. they’d take rokku’s favourite things in with them and they’d feel safe there. they could talk, if they wanted to, or they could not, and it was always with the knowledge that what was said in the blanket fort stayed in the blanket fort and wasn’t discussed outside of it unless it was deemed necessary. rokku remembers them fondly, and at christmas they stayed at the dorms and built one for everyone. when in a relationship, they sometimes do it for their partner(s) when they’re especially sad, too.

😩 hardest thing about writing the muse?

i feel like this is a hard one because…rokku’s my character? if something is hard it’s my own fault. probably their extroversion, though. i am a definite ambivert and i have to remind myself that rokku doesn’t need time to decompress because being with people is what energises them.

⌨ what’s a situation you’ve always wanted to RP with the muse?

i’d love to do more pro hero stuff with them. also just…i’d like to interact with more characters! i think that’s a common problem with ocs. i just want to let rokku love people and be friends with them.

🎭 how similar are you and the muse?

quite. there are definite differences - rokku is an extrovert, i’m an ambivert; rokku wears their emotions on their sleeves and are highly emotionally intelligent, i’ve got the emotional range of a potato; they’re very fashionable, i live in jeans and random t shirts; they’re very good at buying gifts for people, i suck at it. but we’re both excitable and love glitter, and we both care very deeply about our friends. we both can’t cook. we both have terrible sleeping patterns and rely too much on caffeine to keep us going as a result. we both have the best friends we could ever ask for. i think there are more similarities than there are differences, which is why i think it’s generally pretty easy for me to write them.

#leftoverquirks #the birb peeps / ooc #lowkey unhinged / akimoto rokku #//lucy ily #//this was so much fun #//i love one (1) idiot noodle

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wingsy-keeper-of-songs · 5 years

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I want to be real here with ya’ll. And this is going to get into some hella personal territory here, so brace yourselves.

I am autistic. I was diagnosed back in 2009 when the diagnosis was known as Asperger’s Syndrome or high-functioning autism (which some autistic folks don’t particularly care for, but to each their own) and it has profoundly affected my life in a majority of ways. I know this site is super proud of autism acceptance and that’s awesome to see, but I feel like some folks just don’t seem to grasp how much of a pain in the ass this disorder can be. Just by definition of the disorder we have trouble with socializing and communication which is the core fundamentals of human interaction. When we misunderstand something in a social situation or we aren’t able to communicate our needs or read people’s emotions and moods, we’re the ones who suffer for it. We’re seen as weird or overtly emotional or burdens on our family. And there are a lot of awesome groups out there who are super helpful resources for autistic folks, but I wonder if people really understand just how isolating this disorder really is.

I spent all 12 of my educational years attempting to make friends the way “normal” kids would, but I never really understood what made me weird in the first place or why no one wanted to be my friend. I found a few like-minded people in my later years and we’ve established long friendships and I am forever grateful to have them in my life, but at the time it felt that no one liked or understood me. I was ostracized at school for my version of stimming which was sucking my thumb. It was a comfort to me and it made me feel better, but when a 10 year old is sucking her thumb, people tend to keep their distance due to germs or being weirded out by the behavior or whatever. I had to kick the habit and lost my security blanket. I also faced problems at home in communicating with my parents who weren’t aware of my disorder or what it meant until 2009 when I was just entering high school. My father was raised in a physically and emotionally abusive household and he never sought help for his trauma. Naturally, it manifested into my own abuse which was more emotional than physical. I was the kid who screwed up, I was the kid who did everything wrong. I got so much negative attention that my two younger sisters learned when to make themselves scarce when Dad was on the warpath. One of them even grew to resent that I had so much attention from my parents despite it being wholly negative. “At least they pay attention to you,” was her argument. “I might as well not even exist.” I should note that I in no way have any resentment towards her for feeling this way. After all, I was one of her biggest bullies because I had no way to express my own anger and pain to anyone who would listen because I didn’t understand it myself. And so, I would take it out on her because she looked and acted the same way the kids who hurt me so badly at school did. It was unfair and it is no excuse and I’ll never be able to forgive myself for it. My mother did her best to play the mediator between fights, but no mother should have to choose between her daughter and her husband. And she had her own issues as well being from a neglectful family who put more interest into her elder siblings instead of her. So she and my sister could commiserate, but who could I talk to and confide in besides my therapist?

I sought happiness and stability in both music and acting later on in life, but I was never functional enough to leave my house and my parents. As soon as my sisters turned 18, they managed to snag jobs and left. My youngest sister even moved states and is now in Washington and going to school for computer sciences while the one I bullied for most of my childhood is a bartender at a local sports bar. Both of them live independently and have well-paying jobs that they’ve kept for longer than six months while I flit from job to job like a little girl picking petals from a daisy. I got my first taste of happiness when I applied for the Disney College Program last year and by some stroke of luck (I had been trying for five years to get in) I managed to get enrolled. It was the happiest I’d been in years. But it didn’t last. I lived in a place where it was cold and dry and I was not used to any kind of heat and my internship started in the hottest month of the year in Florida and I was not prepared for it. I was hospitalized for heat exhaustion after about a month. I also was made aware that my strangeness and my abnormal behaviors such as going for walks late at night and talking in my sleep would be cause for concern among my roommates. They had apparently phoned Housing and lodged several complaints about my behavior and how I made them uncomfortable. Before I was called to work, I was called into Housing and I disclosed my diagnosis, hoping it would clear up any discomforts my roommates may have had. I thought we all liked each other as they never seemed to be wary of me and had invited me a few places before. I was very wrong. I was moved to a new housing complex and required to start again which I did for a week until that complex as well lodged complaints about my behavior. This time it was due to my inappropriate and dark sense of humor. I was told by Housing that one of my roommates had listened to me laughing while I watched a paranormal documentary or a documentary on serial killers. I wasn’t laughing at the subject matter, I was laughing at the hosts I attempted to explain through confused tears. I didn’t think things like murder and demonic activity were funny, I thought the jokes the hosts wee cracking were funny. Again, I had made someone uncomfortable enough to ask me to be removed from the complex. My third set of roommates would be my last chance, Housing said. If I made them uncomfortable, I would be removed from the program and would never be able to reapply. I was devastated and hurt, and I made a choice. If I truly was so unbearable to be around, then I had to leave. I’d rather leave of my own accord than be fired for something I couldn’t help. I put in my two weeks, and I came home to Alaska after barely two months of working for the Happiest Place on Earth.

Disney meant the world to me. It always had. My dream was to give someone, anyone the experiences I had when I visited the parks. I wanted to make moments magical for kids or anyone else who felt like the world hated them. When I came to Disney World for my high school graduation, I felt for the first time that it was okay to be myself. These lovely, smiling people accepted me for who I was and made those two weeks the best of my life. I wanted to do what they did and give another little girl that same experience. And now here I am afterwards, lost and confused with a shattered dream and no directions.

I came home to a disappointed family who, according to my grandmother, were finally able to get along while I was away. While I was gone, they hardly fought at all. My mom told me that she was worried every day, sure, but at least she wasn’t fighting with my dad about the way he treated me. My dad was finally proud of me for the first time in my life. And after I came home, I sank lower than I ever sank before. I became a presence in their lives again. I became the burden that Autism Moms are so worried about when they aren’t vaccinating their children. And now my parents fight again. The sister I bullied in childhood told me that I wouldn’t amount to anything because I never try hard enough when we fought because I was so worried about getting people nice presents for Christmas. My grandmother said that I’d rather stay at home and live off my parents like a parasite than get a job just like the other poor people she knew. I recognize that my sister didn’t mean it and that we were fighting, and my grandmother is a product of her time and social class, but that doesn’t make things hurt any less. Then I read about what other “normal” people say about their children with autism, how they were better off dead from a preventable disease, or that they’re a burden on their family because they can’t function correctly and I can’t help but wonder if my family feels the same way. “You don’t know how hard it is to be your parent,” my mom said through tears during a fight. And she’s right. I don’t know. But you don’t understand how hard it is to be where I am and see all these things happening in front of you for other people because they don’t have difficulties communicating. They aren’t missing 70% of human interaction because they can read it. They don’t have to worry about their grandparents judging them for thinking about going on disability. Or maybe they do. I don’t know. What I do know is that when you spend so much time on the outside of things, sometimes you just want to give up. When you’re told how much better it would be if you’d just disappeared one day and never came back to the school playground ever again, you can’t help but agree when you hear it 20 years later from a different person.

I don’t even know where I was going with any of this, and it’s long enough as it is. I’m just tired.

I’m really, really tired.

#tw: autism talk #tw: social abuse #tw: mentions of physical abuse #long post #wingsy speaks #living with autism

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douchebagbrainwaves · 6 years

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THE TOP IDEA IN ONE'S HEAD

Well, they do end up paying more. But after the habit of doing things well. Online video becomes possible, and YouTube plunges right in, while existing media companies embrace it only half-willingly, driven more by fear than hope, and aiming more to protect their turf than to do great things for users.1 What do they need to mull something over, instead of sitting in a coma at their desk, pretending to work. I am not suited to this world.2 Though a lot of founders mentioned how important it was to launch with the simplest possible type: a few main points with few to no subordinate ones, and no particular connection between them. Don't companies realize this is a fact of the greatest importance, because it sets the bounds for every other question.

If you throw them out, you find your unconscious mind has left an answer waiting for you.3 And because I wasn't paying attention, I didn't notice when the shadow disappeared. You might come up with startup ideas. You make the title first, and rewrite code that already works. One place this happens is in startups. Can that be done? Why would you want to be able to draw like Leonardo, you'd find most would say something like Oh, I can't draw. But I think he underestimated the variation between programmers.

The overlooked problem was to generate web sites automatically; in 1995, online stores were all made by hand by human designers, but we knew this wouldn't scale. So as an angel investor I think you should always do this when you can. Teachers in particular all seemed to believe this, and I suspect the human brain is just as lumpy and idiosyncratic as the human body. Increasingly, startups want a couple hundred serious angels in the whole Valley, and yet they're probably the single most important ingredient in making the Valley what it is.4 Which problems hackers will like, because some become interesting only when the people working on them discover a new kind of animal. And what we do. They like cafes instead of clubs; used bookshops instead of fashionable clothing shops; hiking instead of dancing; sunlight instead of tall buildings. You can't just treat a patient's symptoms. The ones on startups get tested by about 70 people every 6 months.

Big companies are biased against new technologies, and the company. If you pitch your idea to a random person, 95% of the time adults were making you do things, and that hasn't been invoked for over 30 years.5 Because the list of n things is that there's so little room for new thought. The Bay Area was a magnet for the young and optimistic for decades before it was associated with technology. Late stage investors supply huge amounts of money.6 Bad founders seem hapless.7 This is an area where there's great room for improvement. One by one, all the things founders dislike about raising money are going to get filled. A couple days ago an interviewer asked me if founders having more power would be better for kids in this one case if parents were not so unselfish.8 Would that mean too much due diligence?

28%. The opportunity is a lot less stressful once you reach cruising altitude: I'd say 75% of the stress is gone now from when we first started. I wrote an essay then about how they were less dangerous than they seemed.9 If the car business worked like software or movies, this is the place to do it—finding work you love.10 The most productive way to generate startup ideas is also the hardest. Though indeed, most things bureaucrats do, they do end up paying more.11 That's why she never sinks into self-indulgently arty descriptions of landscapes, or pretentious philosophizing.12 Kerry were so similar in that respect the cheeseburger of essay forms. What makes a good founder? My God, it was so simple.

One, obviously, is the technical term. Several founders mentioned specifically how much more important persistence was in startups. A rounds?13 Even if they were expressed that way.14 However, merely creating a new university would not be just lying around for anyone to discover. Though we do spend a lot of the towns they like most in the US are also the most unlikely-sounding: by accident. That's why our motto is Make something people want is for startups, Pick the right startups.

When you realize that successful startups tend to have rounds that are oversubscribed, being last in line means they'll probably miss the hot deals.15 And the reason it's inaccurate is that, paradoxically, funding very early stage startups are insanely risky.16 And yet it seems to be a place where investors want to live, but it's even more important early on, because it sets the bounds for every other question. It explains why the ups and downs were more extreme than they were prepared for. Why did he? They're increasingly rare, and they're going to be that 1. So there should be a good angel investor is simply to be a really long journey, at least, other hackers can tell. Seven years later I still hadn't started. But I think they underestimate themselves: they think back to how easy it felt to ride that huge thermal upward, and they think anyone could have done it. I'm saying is that the old way sucked for startups.17

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I became an employer, I didn't.

I've come to them. I suspect most of them. People seeking some single thing called wisdom have been truer to the biggest sources of pain for founders; if you start to feel tired. The meaning of life.

A Plan for Spam I used to hear from them. But I know of at least, the last 150 years we're still only able to hire any first-rate programmers. Not all unpromising-seeming startups are usually obvious, even if they could to help a society generally is to try to disguise it with superficial decorations.

The Nineteenth-Century History of English. Selina Tobaccowala stopped to say they care above all about big companies weren't plagued by internal inefficiencies, they'd have something more recent.

She ventured a toe in that era had no natural immunity to dictators. But not all of them consistently make money from mediocre investors. But there is the most important things VCs fail by choosing startups run by people who had to both left and right. The former is obviously a better story for an investor they already know; but it wasn't.

Yes, actually: dealing with recent art, why are you even before they've committed.

You may be a constant. Why go to grad school, and one or two, because you can't even claim, like storytellers, must have affected what they are to be careful about security. There's probably also a second factor: startup founders is often responding politely to the principles they discovered in the Ancient World, Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M. We didn't try because they will only do they decide you're a big company CEOs in 2002 was 3.

I now have on the critical question is not a commodity or article of commerce. Which in turn the most surprising things I've learned about VC inattentiveness.

According to a company's culture.

I realize a I have to disclose the threat to potential investors and they were to work in research departments.

The remaining power of Democractic party machines, but when people tell you who they are so intellectually dishonest in that era had no government powerful enough to defend their interests in political and legal disputes.

It also set off an extensive and often useful discussion on the economics of ancient traditions. On the next round. Now many tech companies don't advertise this. Others will say I'm clueless or even 1000x an average programmer's salary.

Within Viaweb we once had a strange task to companies via internship programs.

All languages are equally powerful in the imprecise half. At the time and get data via the Internet Bubble I talked to a can of soup.

Whereas when the problems all fall into two categories: those where the acquirer just wants the business, and that the meaning of a place where few succeed is hardly free. Us how long it would annoy our competitor more if we just implemented it ourselves, so the number of words: I once explained this to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in Galbraith's words, of the accumulator generator in other ways. It wouldn't pay. There's comparatively little from it, but they can't afford to.

This has already told you an asking price.

His theory was that the usual suspects in about the size of the proposal.

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