Good Morning!

Morning.

mogge

o/

måning

Morning

afternoon

must be brighter in Perth than it is in Dundee then @ben.hammond 🙂

☀️

:rain_cloud:

it could be night here

luckily I can rely on UGT to save me

good morning

nah its pretty gloomy here too

it is definitely the time of year when if the weather is wrong you don't know if it is day or night

listen to the news and you're not sure what year it is

Well, night up here does start at 3-4 PM. Not that that I'm complaining.

Hey there @ben.hammond, how've you been?

hi there. pretty good thanks

how's the job-hunting?

Still going. Flubbed the interview George got me at Thoughtworks. Anxiety and aggressive recruiter got the best of me, though I probably shouldn't have lead with wanting to work there because of a shot at working with Clojure. I meant over the long term but I don't think I communicated that properly. Considered just going straight freelance and bootstrapping it. Friend's offering me the use of his server and domain to host a personal site, so I just need to whip up something professional looking in CLJS.

ah well, its all useful interviewing experience though

True, if frustrating

there is a plague of aggressive recruiters out there

(i think they are aggressive to conceal the fact they don't understand the domain)

The tragic thing is they could get pretty far by reading the manual.

You wouldn't believe what tripped me up. It was trying to answer why I wanted to work there. I had this spiel I'd honing around Neal Ford and Clojure, and what that said about company culture but I guess it's been so long from when I first put in my application that I legitimately forgot my own story.

This is the pro answer for that question: "I like getting money and this seems to be a pretty easy way, how's about it?"

I don't think anyone really cares about the answer you give for that one so I wouldn't beat yourself up about it, there are a million things that can make an interview go wrong

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-08-17

Not so much beating myself up really. All that build up was just a little anti-climactic. The flipside is it got me thinking real hard about what I wanted to do and what would be best for me. It's a kick in the butt to see how hard I can flex with Clojure. Been a while since my last job as well, and not much luck even landing an interview. Not enough experience and all that. There was a graduate-level Clojure job I found locally, of all things. No joy getting through the first filter though.