Shataina ([info]dragonladyflame) wrote,
@ 2004-08-11 18:38:00
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grey sky and muddy puddles
Today I bought a small box of food colouring for mysterious purposes of my own. While walking home from my assorted errands, the idea came to me that I could dye the puddles. So pleased was I by this concept that I immediately opened my new box, only to discover that I had bought a box with two reds and no blue. Without further ado, I returned to the supermarket, where they allowed me a new box with the generally accepted colour balance.

The little rejected box looked so forlorn on the counter. I felt guilty as I exchanged it for a box with a blue. After all, it committed no crimes. Perhaps it even knew that I like red above most everything, and was trying to please me. I still felt bad even as I returned to the muddy aqueduct and dyed a puddle red and blue.

This leads me to several questions.

1. Do you suppose that having a slight crisis of conscience over the feelings of a box of food colouring indicates some form of psychosis?

2. Is it reasonable to assume that the idea of dyeing puddles different colours occurred to me for the sole reason that I would look at my box of food colouring right then and there, realize that I had been given a box lacking in blue, and therefore not have to go all the way home and settle in before I had to run back and return it?

3. Is it reasonable to assume that because I did not have to return later tonight to exchange the box, at which time I would probably have bought chocolate, the Supreme Force does not wish me to buy chocolate?

(and now a slightly unrelated question)

4. Is it reasonable to lie on my résumé, despite the fact that it is plainly unethical, when both career counselors and former bosses advise me to do so?

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[info]germanpyro
2004-08-11 03:04 pm UTC (link)
1. No, it just means you graduated from SRC. Equality rocks :-).

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:44 pm UTC (link)
:P It's nice to know that I internalized my lessons so thoroughly ....

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[info]foxfour
2004-08-11 03:14 pm UTC (link)
ahem. "dyeing". not dying. but anyway...

1. yes, generally. but in a good way.

2. yes. if you believe in predestiny.

3. no. you're clearly mad.

4. um. it may be reasonable. is it ethical?

5. most of my answers were random.

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. I feel so embarrassed for having made that mistake. :hides face: I am covered in shame!

And thanks also for the chocolate validation.

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[info]foxfour
2004-08-15 06:59 pm UTC (link)
chocolate is always validateable.

i'm no longer on nantucket. we can try this phone thing again.

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[info]aredoubt
2004-08-11 03:16 pm UTC (link)
1. Boxes have feelings too. Feeling pity for boxes of hair dye, however, is like feeling sympathy for the little kid in the park torturing bugs with a magnifying glass who then promptly got eaten by the giant beetle from FFIII. Boxes of hair dye would eat you if they could.

2. No. Unless you sacrifice regularly to the irony gods, such assumptions are entirely unreasonable.

3. See (2).

4. Entirely. [Advice must be taken in context, knowing that the advisor is the perpetrator of the Great Summer Employment Lie of 2003]

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[info]aredoubt
2004-08-11 03:19 pm UTC (link)
And in an amazing display of the mutability of time, all of these replies have been posted before the actual entry was entered.

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:49 pm UTC (link)
This comment made me laugh hysterically for a long time. Thank you.

Also, the context for your answer to (4) would actually encourage me to take your answer more seriously, and also to ask you for advice in all job-getting areas other than résumés, as well. If you can pull that off, man, I trust your judgment.

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[info]intimations
2004-08-11 03:41 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea. You lost me when you got to the part about wanting blue food coloring. I refuse to eat anything that is blue, and have since I was, like, four.

Your whole thought process is entirely beyond my life experience. ;)

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:50 pm UTC (link)
Don't be foolish. Why would I be using food colouring to dye food? Be reasonable now.

As to the second point, should I be flattered?

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[info]intimations
2004-08-12 06:44 am UTC (link)
Oh, thank God. You had me worried for a moment there. Of course.

Hee. Probably. There's some Oscar Wilde quote about how he was terribly afraid of being understood because people are idiotic, or something. It's a lot wittier from him, understandably. ;)

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[info]proudduckling
2004-08-11 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Gah, I can get so bent out of shape over the feelings of inanimate objects... I once spent fifteen minutes crying because I saw a broken tv with a sign on it that said "Please throw me away."
And I just got teary typing it.
So clearly I don't know from sane.

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:53 pm UTC (link)
Actually, the image of that TV kinda clawed at my heart, too. Man, it gets more depressing as I consider it ... mew. I blame you not, dearling.

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Gilana the insane voices her opinion
[info]mizg
2004-08-11 07:31 pm UTC (link)
1. Do you suppose that having a slight crisis of conscience over the feelings of a box of food colouring indicates some form of psychosis?

No, not at all. I have crises (is that the plural?) of conscience over little things, including inanimate objects...particularly stuffed animals and dolls which I am CERTAIN have feelings, but other things too...but then again, I'm completely out of my mind...like, seriously. I saw a new therapist today and I'm certain he thought I was totally batty. It was funny.

But yeah, I would have felt the same about the dye...why didn't you go back and re-buy the special Lydia-perfect box? (I'm totally just being a pain here...I would have, but that's because I'm crazy)

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:54 pm UTC (link)
Because food colouring is expensive ... and more importantly, I felt ridiculous for feeling so sad for the box. I guess I'm not compassionate enough. :P

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[info]mizg
2004-08-12 05:19 am UTC (link)
good reasons, though don't think it's so much that you're not compassionate enough as you're not insane enough (as opposed to me...)

;)

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on resumes
[info]crywolf
2004-08-11 09:11 pm UTC (link)
You should not lie on your resume. It's too easily found out. You should, however, exaggerate. For example, I put on my resume that I was an engineer, because I worked at Northlandz.

The resume is there to get your foot in the door, and a lot of places won't look at you unless you meet their minimum requirements of 5 years of experience in something that's been out for two years. So, in the case of the computer field, if someplace wants 5 years experience in Windows XP, you can assure them that you have 5 years experience with Windows, including Windows XP. Milk your job experience, schooling, and hobbies for everything you can. Make something that will match the keywords they want when they put your resume into their computers.

And most of all, good luck.

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-11 10:56 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the good wishes. :) And thanks for the opinion. Everyone seems to think I should, but it seems like such a bad idea ... I don't think I will, but exaggeration, as you said, is prolly a good call.

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[info]collegecate
2004-08-12 03:48 pm UTC (link)
...I have no words to describe how much I love your particular brand of crazy.

1. It's OK about the box; if you don't care, who will?

2. I think this is entirely possible, I ponder such things myself. I'm also reading Dune Messiah so this might be influencing my decision. But then perhaps you were destined to ask this question and I was destined to answer it in order to consider real-world applications of foreknowledge and thus gain a deeper understanding of the book...Or maybe hypnotic mind-control lasers are involved.

3. I concur with Kit; you're mad.

4. As one who is also updating her résumé, I am very curious about what people have advised you to lie about. I agree it's much too easy to get caught, but what is so important that you should try? And will such a falsehood on my part make *me* more appealing to employers?

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-14 12:09 am UTC (link)
Thank you, it's nice to be loved. :smile:

As to (3), I also think I am mad, especially since I went to dinner with my dad later that night and was offered chocolate, and therefore did not need to go to the supermarket to obtain it.

For (4), people mostly encourage me to make up work experience (including my bartender school career people) or make up job titles (including my internship boss from when I was a youngun, who gave me several suggestions and added permission to say I did whatever I want). I also know people who entirely made up references and had their friends pretend to be their references.

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[info]collegecate
2004-08-14 10:30 am UTC (link)
I'd say the making up of job titles is OK, especially if you have permission from your boss. The making up of work experience doesn't work too well thoughb ecause then you need fake references. Perhaps the point your bartender trainers are making is that you need to have bar experience to get a bar job.

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I can't believe you put this much thought into this...
[info]jeweled_dragon
2004-08-13 02:46 pm UTC (link)
The fact that I don't have crises of conscious even over the feelings of animate objects including people spurs me to answer that yes, it is a form of psychosis.

Yes. Although you could have just stood over the puddles and let your bleeding heart drip into them and gotten the same effect minus the exercise.

I'd say the Supreme Force has no objection to your buying chocolate. However, your buying chocolate on this particular day was obviously not meant to be.

Exaggeration is key in the job market. And weigh the chances of getting caught. Don't say you worked somewhere you didn't, but say your job was more glamorous than it actually was. Like Housekeeping/Manager. Always put Computer and people skills down in the little "anything else that qualifies you" box.

If everyone else's train of thought looks like a straight line, I imagine yours looks like a line of ampersands all strung together.

Dyeing puddles is an excellent idea.

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-14 12:10 am UTC (link)
That ampersands comment made me really damn happy. :mad giggling:

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[info]artiephesus
2004-08-18 07:28 am UTC (link)
I think "making up" job titles is all right--sometimes it's more descriptive than what your menial title is, especially in an industry that doesn't have specific promotional ranks based on title. (If they do, I wouldn't change it.)

Until I had enough work experience to actually fill my one-page resume, I listed all my possible work experience, and much of my academic experience. A lot of the academic is still on there, actually, tho' now it's secondary. I also filled up space with "relevant experience," which included travel to foreign countries and martial arts training (which actually got me a second interview at one place, oddly enough for a publisher). I guess where I'm going with this is that you don't have to lie--you just have to fill the space in a way that's going to make you look appealing to the people you're applying to.

I felt sorry for your box of red food dye just reading it, though strangely, not for the broken television.

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[info]dragonladyflame
2004-08-20 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Perhaps a broken television abused you as a child.

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