Brandy and Cigars MkII

Sauve · 21-11-2011 5:15pm

:O

Ewww

stupidusername · 21-11-2011 5:19pm

Finishing up my job on Friday!

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 5:21pm

stupidusername wrote: »

Finishing up my job on Friday!

Congrats - anything in the pipeline or you looking to take it easy for a few weeks?

stupidusername · 21-11-2011 5:38pm

PaulieC wrote: »

Congrats - anything in the pipeline or you looking to take it easy for a few weeks?

thanks. Nothing lined up,its just my placement is finished. After a week i'll be well sick of the time off

Hyperbullet · 21-11-2011 6:22pm

There's something lovely about walking around Galway on a chilly November evening and having a piping cup of hot chocolate. Just gorgeous.

How are we all today?

Sauve · 21-11-2011 6:32pm

Hyperbullet wrote: »

There's something lovely about walking around Galway on a chilly November evening and having a piping cup of hot chocolate. Just gorgeous.

How are we all today?

How romantic is that

Kya1976 · 21-11-2011 6:40pm

stupidusername wrote: »

Finishing up my job on Friday!

Bet you can't wait:D

I'm trying to narrow down my weaknesses to 3 in preparation for my interview on Thursday.This is really difficult.

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 6:46pm

Hyperbullet wrote: »

There's something lovely about walking around Galway on a chilly November evening and having a piping cup of hot chocolate. Just gorgeous.

How are we all today?

Aww that sounds really, really good! And here's me stuck in work!

I found out today that the pod coffee machine I got a few weeks back can take hot chocolate pods so hoping to get them somewhere for Christmas - if it's half as good as the coffee I'll be golden for winter

Anybody here ever had O'Connaills hot chocolate in Cork? - it's fairly spectacular

Hyperbullet · 21-11-2011 6:49pm

Sauvignon82 wrote: »

How romantic is that

It would be if that stroll around didn't finish with me having to go to work!

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 6:51pm

Kya1976 wrote: »

Bet you can't wait:D

I'm trying to narrow down my weaknesses to 3 in preparation for my interview on Thursday.This is really difficult.

Anytime I've been asked what my weaknesses are in an interview I've turned it around to make it look like a strength which might come across as cocky but might also make you seem really humble for even thinking it's a weakness

e.g. - One weakness I'd have is that if I don't know the answer to something I won't stop looking to find an answer which can sometimes mean I get a bit sidetracked.

You've said you can sometimes get sidetracked but only because of your eagerness to get a result and shown that you don't give up easily when faced with a difficult task

Bada-bing bada-boom :pac:

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 6:52pm

stupidusername wrote: »

thanks. Nothing lined up,its just my placement is finished. After a week i'll be well sick of the time off

I have a feeling you'll enjoy the lie-ins for a little longer than a week

Kya1976 · 21-11-2011 6:56pm

PaulieC wrote: »

Anytime I've been asked what my weaknesses are in an interview I've turned it around to make it look like a strength which might come across as cocky but might also make you seem really humble for even thinking it's a weakness

e.g. - One weakness I'd have is that if I don't know the answer to something I won't stop looking to find an answer which can sometimes mean I get a bit sidetracked.

You've said you can sometimes get sidetracked but only because of your eagerness to get a result and shown that you don't give up easily when faced with a difficult task

Bada-bing bada-boom :pac:

Haha I might steal that one. And yea you do want to be able to turn it around and make it look like a strength.

I think I might go for stubborn, and SUN gave me a suggestion as well, that I'm too confident:eek::p

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 7:14pm

Kya1976 wrote: »

Haha I might steal that one. And yea you do want to be able to turn it around and make it look like a strength.

I think I might go for stubborn, and SUN gave me a suggestion as well, that I'm too confident:eek::p

This should be your cover letter - saw it online a few weeks back and laughed heartily at it.

College entrance letter:

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hand gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned my fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradies Lost, Moby-Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish and entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using only a Mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

stupidusername · 21-11-2011 7:17pm

PaulieC wrote: »

I have a feeling you'll enjoy the lie-ins for a little longer than a week

i do like my sleep

Kya1976 wrote: »

Haha I might steal that one. And yea you do want to be able to turn it around and make it look like a strength.

I think I might go for stubborn, and SUN gave me a suggestion as well, that I'm too confident:eek::p

hmmm i dunno about stubborn, how can you make that positive?

Kya1976 · 21-11-2011 7:19pm

PaulieC wrote: »

This should be your cover letter - saw it online a few weeks back and laughed heartily at it.

College entrance letter:

Thanks for the laugh:D I wish I could write like that!

Kya1976 · 21-11-2011 7:20pm

stupidusername wrote: »

i do like my sleep

hmmm i dunno about stubborn, how can you make that positive?

Stubborn as in you make sure to get things done, no?

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 7:23pm

Kya1976 wrote: »

Stubborn as in you make sure to get things done, no?

I don't think so - stubbornness can lead to conflict. Although if you put it in the sense that you're well able to stick up for yourself and not easily led then I'm sure it'd look good....use the thesaurus to find a word similar to stubborn though :pac:

I'd say perfectionist - that you like things done right or not atall - again that's more of a strength than a weakness

coffee_cake · 21-11-2011 7:26pm

i got asked 3 weaknesses in an interview
i told them they were getting one and that was it

said i was told i should delegate tasks more, because im the type of person who just prefers to get things done (which was all entirely true) and that i'd overcome that with recent work on xyz bla bla
if you tell them a weakness tell them something that you've done to improve it

don't say perfectionist, it's the ultimate cliche

stupidusername · 21-11-2011 7:28pm

yeah, stubbornness for me would be a little too negative, it'd be hard to turn it around.

Kya1976 · 21-11-2011 7:29pm

PaulieC wrote: »

I don't think so - stubbornness can lead to conflict. Although if you put it in the sense that you're well able to stick up for yourself and not easily led then I'm sure it'd look good....use the thesaurus to find a word similar to stubborn though :pac:

I'd say perfectionist - that you like things done right or not atall - again that's more of a strength than a weakness

Yea you might be right, I'll have a think about it, still got some time to prepare anyway:)

I got my strengths all sorted already

:pac: And it's all lies!

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 7:30pm

bluewolf wrote: »

i got asked 3 weaknesses in an interview
i told them they were getting one and that was it

said i was told i should delegate tasks more, because im the type of person who just prefers to get things done (which was all entirely true) and that i'd overcome that with recent work on xyz bla bla
if you tell them a weakness tell them something that you've done to improve it

don't say perfectionist, it's the ultimate cliche

Cliché

Sorry had to fix it....I'm a perfectionist you see :pac:

coffee_cake · 21-11-2011 7:31pm

PaulieC wrote: »

Cliché

Sorry had to fix it....I'm a perfectionist you see :pac:

you fixed that and not all the other lazy typing? :pac:

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 7:33pm

bluewolf wrote: »

you fixed that and not all the other lazy typing? :pac:

There were no other jokes to be had out of those - cliché was the perfect word for it I'm sure you'll agree

Almost finished work YAY!

Otis Driftwood · 21-11-2011 7:56pm

bluewolf wrote: »

you fixed that and not all the other lazy typing? :pac:

The hunter has become the hunted eh.Its about damn time!

Best line I heard re weaknesses was when a guy was having his interview,it was going swimmingly and the interviewer asked him what his weaknesses were.

He paused for about 15/20 seconds,looked at him in the eye and said

I cant dance

The fecker got the job too.

ToxicPaddy · 21-11-2011 7:57pm

Evening all..

Hows everyone?

D'Agger · 21-11-2011 7:59pm

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

The hunter has become the hunted eh.Its about damn time!

Best line I heard re weaknesses was when a guy was having his interview,it was going swimmingly and the interviewer asked him what his weaknesses were.

He paused for about 15/20 seconds,looked at him in the eye and said

The fecker got the job too.

did you see that thread in AH a while back - I don't go there too often anymore but the thread on funny stories from interviews & CVs was brilliant.

Guy got asked the same question you referred to Otis except he didn't blink and rapidly responded...

BULLETS

Kya1976 · 21-11-2011 8:00pm

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

The hunter has become the hunted eh.Its about damn time!

Best line I heard re weaknesses was when a guy was having his interview,it was going swimmingly and the interviewer asked him what his weaknesses were.

He paused for about 15/20 seconds,looked at him in the eye and said

The fecker got the job too.

That one I could use, I really can't dance and it'll probably make the interviewer laugh as well.

Pembily · 21-11-2011 10:01pm

Evening all! I love o conaills, might try get one when I'm down next week!

Don't say stubborn or perfectionist Kya and best of luck

Captain Havoc · 21-11-2011 10:27pm

I've to do a child protection course for the cycling club, I was thinking about going wearing a pedobear t-shirt

stupidusername · 21-11-2011 10:32pm

you should

Brandy and Cigars MkII

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