#132484 - 02/01/2003 11:20
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: tonyc]
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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And dude, "path" is so not a verb.
Peter
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#132485 - 02/01/2003 11:29
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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[BittFaulk]
Actually OED says that there is a verb form of "path" that's appropriate here, though it's obsolete:
"3. intr. To go in or as in a path; to pursue one's course. Also refl. in same sense. "
More likely, this colloquialism was just invented by HR types who wanted to put a buzz-word around one's search for a better job.
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#132486 - 02/01/2003 11:34
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: peter]
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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Speaking of, my favorite of these of late had been (when they were still using it) the US photocopy/printing chain Kinko's slogan ``The New Way To Office''.
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#132488 - 02/01/2003 12:05
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Yeah, verbing weirds language, doesn't it?
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#132489 - 02/01/2003 12:09
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I love it. Peter gets Bitted, and it's not even by Bitt.
Much in the way one gets FAQed by someone other than yourself?
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#132490 - 02/01/2003 12:13
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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Hah! But only I am eponymous!
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#132491 - 03/01/2003 00:17
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
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Hah! But only I am eponymous!
...and there was me thinking you were Bitt...
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#132492 - 03/01/2003 08:10
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: wfaulk]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
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[tongue-in-cheek]I hate you for making me get out my dictionary![/tongue-in-cheek]
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#132493 - 03/01/2003 12:08
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 03/01/2003
Posts: 5
Loc: Lorena, Virginia
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But only I am eponymous!
I can never recall this word. Can you explain what the faulk it mean??? Like, does it mean you are like unique?
Maybe its another phrase I have been thinking of???
Bob
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#132494 - 03/01/2003 12:22
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: Bitten]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31596
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Eponymous means self-named.
For instance, most artist's first albums are "eponymous".
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#132495 - 03/01/2003 12:31
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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And then there's REM's "Eponymous" album which is, of course, not eponymous.
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#132496 - 03/01/2003 12:42
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: Bitten]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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Hmmm. It would seem that someone knows my middle name and thinks this is funny.
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#132497 - 03/01/2003 12:52
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: wfaulk]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Well, so much for Y2K3 being troll-free at the ol' BBS.
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#132498 - 03/01/2003 13:01
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: tonyc]
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Registered: 03/01/2003
Posts: 5
Loc: Lorena, Virginia
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Well, so much for Y2K3 being troll-free at the ol' BBS
Why, it looks like I been, like......eponymmed!
Happy New Years!
Bob
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#132499 - 03/01/2003 13:30
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: Bitten]
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
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I'd lay odds I can guess which forum member is resurfacing as Bitten...
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#132500 - 03/01/2003 15:10
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: JBjorgen]
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
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Ya think?
-Zeke
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#132501 - 03/01/2003 20:07
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: wfaulk]
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Registered: 03/01/2003
Posts: 5
Loc: Lorena, Virginia
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It would seem that someone knows my middle name and thinks this is funny.
Whoa I have to say. I did not know that. Robert?? So don't worry thinking that I have been looking you up on the Internet.
It was a joke. With bad spelling If I could get you to Bitt me, then I would be Bitten. See? I would be eponymous!!
Oh, just Bitt me!
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#132502 - 03/01/2003 20:14
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: JBjorgen]
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Registered: 03/01/2003
Posts: 5
Loc: Lorena, Virginia
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I'd lay odds I
okay, how about I give you 2 to 1 on 5 dollars? you have 1 day and you get 1 guess. After that I have to go back to the cone of silenece. If you guess right I'll fess up.
I'll be waiting No cheating with the help of the IP logging green people!!
Bob
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#132503 - 03/01/2003 21:00
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: Bitten]
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Registered: 01/11/2001
Posts: 354
Loc: Maryland
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With bad spelling If I could get you to Bitt me, then I would be Bitten
Well, I'm no expert on the topic, but I believe the proper usage is "Bitted".
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#132504 - 03/01/2003 21:12
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: Bitten]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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I'll be waiting No cheating with the help of the IP logging green people!!
Only Red people can see IP info. The BBS FAQ shows what the colors mean.
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#132505 - 03/01/2003 21:18
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: BleachLPB]
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Registered: 03/01/2003
Posts: 5
Loc: Lorena, Virginia
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Well, I'm no expert on the topic, but I believe the proper usage is "Bitted". \\
I dunno. I'd be careful. he might get you!!!
I mean, like would you ever say that you had been bitted by a shark or something?
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#132506 - 06/01/2003 08:45
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: Dylan]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Allrighty, well I'm almost done sharpening my resume, and I did a lot of searching online this weekend... Not surprisingly, there aren't a lot of amazing dream jobs out there just waiting for me to apply for... So I will post my resume on Monster, but I'm wondering if I should start trying to track down which head hunters are the best to work with, instead of having them find me... Any idea where to start? I'm guessing there's no big listing of recruiters which is going to tell me which ones are going to be best equipped to land me a job... But it seems to me that the ones that will find me on Monster are probably going to be the "what's it going to take to get you into this job today" type. Anyone have any starting points for finding GOOD recruiters? I can just start machine-gunning my resume out to these places, but I'd like to find ones that will actually work for me instead of trying to convince me to take whatever job they have available.
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#132507 - 06/01/2003 09:55
Re: Career Pathing: Lay Low or Chase Rainbows?
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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I have never found anyone trying to convince me to take whatever job they have available. First, it's not hard to find the right person for the job in this market. Second, any bad employee is going to reflect badly on them, no matter whether the employee is simply incompetent, or if the employee just isn't interested in doing the job.
I hesitate to recommend anyone I've worked with, though, for reasons other than the getting-me-a-job portion of the equation. (Mostly stuff like ending up working as a contractor and them having lousy benefits and so on.)
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