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core-crystal · 4 years

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Ok so as a baby adult in the making, i need help and you are very approachable. How do i put together a good resume. Also in terms what are some things i really need to know. So far im doing way more research into how im supposed to apply for jobs and health insurance/ how to file taxes then I really assumed I would. Im not very financially independent and cant really afford collage, or to live on my own for that matter. How do i do adult things, im floundering and just panicking.

So for resumes, it’s best to keep a living resume as you work. I think you mentioned the other day that you haven’t really worked before/don’t have past job experience, I think what I included for mine at that point was an education section listing where I was currently going to school and what my running GPA was at the time. In another section any programs I was in (I was in JROTC, marching band, and national honors society at the time), and then a section for my current skills. I’m a little bad at like... explaining resume advice but these links are pretty accurate in explaining and giving decent examples for when you don’t have a lot of present experience!

The thing about resumes is that you want to have, as I said before, a living document keeping track of your qualifications as they come and go. When you get a job, pull up your resume document and mark down the job title, employer, and date, as well as at minimum a brief description of what you do and your direct supervisor’s name. (I’d also recommend keeping a note of that supervisor’s contact information--when you apply to a new job later, sometimes they’ll want to be able to call your past employers to see what you’re about) When you leave that job, add the date you left. Do this for EVERY job. Also do this for any volunteer experiences you may take part in. Make sure you have at least two backups of this living doc up to date and saved in different locations at all times. You’ll thank me later.

When you go to apply to a new job, don’t just print off your living resume doc. Open a brand new document, maybe pick a nice resume style off the word templates (if it looks fun, I’d advise against it--in general, you want a neat, sleek-looking design), have your living resume doc open in the background, and transcribe the relevant information over and rewrite your objective statement to suit the new position. For the time being until you get more experience, you’ll want to include all your work experience, but later down the line, your position at the ice cream shop won’t look that impressive among other jobs, so you’ll have to choose to leave it off then. You should NOT keep a physical copy of your resume on hand, because each resume should be different depending on the job.

For actually applying, check online to see if the place you’re applying to has online applications! If they do, do it there. If they don’t, put on something nice but not too nice, walk in to the location, and ask whether they’re hiring/if you can get a job application. Often they’ll tell you if there’s some special circumstances like, oh you should bring this back to this specific place in the store, but usually, it’s enough to hand it in to a cashier and they’ll know who to bring it to!

Before you get a job interview, practice confident body language and a confident tone. Things like making sure you have a good posture, sitting with your hands folded a certain way, making eye contact even though it sucks and makes you wanna die, etc.. I can’t find the post, but askamanager has helpful resources to actually find and land a job!

I try to craft a solid worksona for job interviews. Basically, you find a balance between the kind of worker they’re looking to hire (for a cashier job: friendly, can hold a conversation, maybe a bit traditional) and still showing that you have, like, an actual personality. And make sure you prepare for the job interview. Askamanager has an article on that, too. It’ll help, trust me.

I don’t know much about health insurance, so I can’t in good conscience advise you there! But taxes are fairly easy, if a little anxiety-inducing. Use a program like turbotax, but do NOT pay for it. The free version works perfectly fine for filing taxes. If something you do, like working or going to school, affects your tax filing, they will almost always send you a tax form with all of the information you’ll need. If you’re not sent a tax form for something, it’s safe to assume that you don’t need to file taxes on it (in my experience). Keep track of any educational spending or major life changes throughout the year anyway. For example, I have to buy textbooks for school. I have to keep track of, and report, how much I spend on those textbooks on my taxes, otherwise I might miss out on a tax break for them. If you get a scholarship for college, write it down. Your college will give you a form that has that information, but write it down anyway. Keep it in a notebook or spreadsheet on a secure computer or using a cloud service like OneDrive. For the most part, though, doing taxes with TurboTax is as simple as reading the form you were given and putting information in boxes.

The company that owns TurboTax also has a program called Mint! It allows you to link your bank accounts and lets you easily budget, track your spending, and even allows you free checks of your credit score that won’t negatively impact your score. I get an update once a month on my credit score and what factors are impacting it how.

Speaking of, once you’re old enough, you’re going to want to start building your credit. What I recommend doing is taking out a credit card, only using it for a specific thing, and then paying it right away. For example, when you have a car, using your credit card to buy gas and then immediately paying that gas purchase off. This will let you build up credit so that later, you can take out loans with lower interest rates and are more likely to be approved for loans.

This is getting a bit long-winded, so I’m going to say one more thing and then call the post for the time being! I think it’s really important to remember that most people don’t know what they’re doing either. I mean it. I helped at least two of my friends’ parents do their taxes this year. Everyone’s just kind of muddling through all this big important adult stuff and pretending they know what they’re doing, but it’s okay to google things you don’t know the answer to, ask questions, and be confused. In some cases, it’s deliberately confusing. Fake it ‘till you make it and kick some ass. I know you can.

#answered asks #aviel-the-trans-bucket

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pinetreewitch · 6 years

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Really Big Witchy Masterpost

This is everything I have in my google docs pertaining to witchcraft, except my own stuff because I’m too lazy to also do that so here are just some links. I don’t know how organized it is or if some of the links contain fake information (as I usually just save them so I can read them at some point in my life.) Let me know if you find anything problematic or unhelpful, or if you just have suggestions. I’ll probably continuously update this. Have fun!

Astral Projection/Lucid Dreaming magick-

Astral projection Warnings

Planes of Existence

Astronomy/Astrology-

Spells and Moon Phases

Quick Lunar phases and Correspondences

Star Magic

Planetary Rulers

Solar Magic

Cosmic Witchcraft

When to do stuff

Celestial Warding

Simple planetary magic

How to write cosmic spells

Celestial music

Astrology Starter Pack

Astrology, the basics

Planetary botanical blends

Candles, Colours -

Candle colours and meanings (MASTERPOST)

More candle colors

Psychology of Colours

Planets and Colours

Candle Flame Meanings

Crystals-

Cleansing crystals MASTERPOST

Mineral and Crystal safety and care MASTERPOST

Crystals for the green witch

Selenite

Crystal Colour Meanings

Raw Quartz

Different crystal shapes

Cleansing crystals

List of crystals and how to NOT charge them

Astrology crystals idk

Crystals for Dreaming

Divination-

Scrying Methods

Fire Scrying Basics

Hydromancy- (1) (2)

Sea Shell Divination

Runes-

Anglo Saxon runes

Fun ways to divine

Stone casting

Dreamwork-

Dreamwork Correspondents Masterpost

Crystals for Dreaming

Earth Magic-

Earth Magic MASTER

Crystals for the green witch

Using dirt and soil

Energy work-

Sensing energy

Elemental attunement

Charging

Seeing auras

More Auras

Energy work

Energy for beginners - (pt1) (pt2)

“Sinking” (grounding)

Empaths in Crowds

Grounding Visualizations

Energy work master post

Meditation stuff

Empaths

If u cant meditate

Pendulums

Meditation and hypnosis

Warding

Glamours

Faeries-

Faeries

List of fae MASTERPOST

Tuatha de Danann

Faefolk lesson

Faerie Magick

Faerie tradition

Lore

Dryads and other Faery lore

Communication

Seeing

Contact

Offerings

Characteristics

Fae meals

Fae

Faerie Garden

Leanan Sidhe

Offerings to the fae

Grimoire stuff-

Pretty grimoire

Another pretty grimoire

Grimoire ideas

History and random info-

Types of witches (history and other stuff)

The elements?

Witches ladder

Crossroads

Poludnica

Leanan Sidhe

Witch of Endor

Slavic/Russian Pagan Resources

Pretty Latin words relating to the night

Palo Mayombe

Resource blogs

Nocturnal

LAWS OF MAGICK

MORE Laws of magick

Hoodoo and Palo Mayombe

Prayers for modern deities

Unworshipped gods

What is secular witchcraft lmao

Bees in folklore

Persephone (Tumblr post)

Witchcraft in Winter

Jinxes, Hexes, Curses-

What to do after a big curse

Reverse a curse

Sea witch curse

Remove a Curse

Morality?

Alternatives

Kitchen witchcraft-

Basic Ideas

Moon Cakes

Magical Correspondents

Practical and ritual correlations between cooking and the craft

Music-

Majour Scale Correspondences

Minor Scale Correspondences

Music Witchcraft MASTERPOST

Celestial music

Winter solstice music

Paranormal-

Precautions

Lots of tips

Safety

Communing with the dead

Introduction

Spirit Work Basics

Spirits of Place

Automatic Writing

Sensing and recognizing

Necromancy

Plants and Herbs-

Poisonous plants

Rosemary

Dandelion

Blackberry

8 forms of potions

Mistletoe

Herb Growers Cheat Sheet

9 Healing Herbs

Planetary Botanical Herbs

Flower Associations

Common Substitutions In Witchcraft - Herbs and Oils

Herb MASTERPOST

Herbal uses in tea

Bay Leaf

Herbs and stuff used in weather magic

Herbs in Sleep magic

A-Z incense list

Plant tips

More plants and uses and shit

More sleepy herbs

Smoke cleansing with wood

Protection and Warding-

A Crash Course in Warding

shielding master post

Protection sachet

4 shells protection spell

Witches ward

Protection chants

Self Defense MASTERPOST

Aggressive protection jar

Celestial warding

Protection techniques

Malignant spirits, be gone

Warding Meditation

Mistakes in Warding i

Mistakes in Warding ii

Quick protection ward

A long list of ways to spiritually protect yourself

Ultimate protection magic masterpost i

Sachets-

Protection sachet

Sea craft-

Working with the tides

4 shells protection spells

Sea Witchcraft MASTERPOST

Scapegoat (returns to sender idk)

Tips

Landlocked sea witch salt

Calming Gif

Sea witch curse

Charging sea glass

Sea witch stuff

Sea witches bottle

A sea witch is well protected

Sea herbs and plants

Ocean Water

Minerals for Sea Witches

Sea Glass

Sea Shell Divination

“Sinking” (grounding)

Sea Herbs and Plants

Different Waters

More magical water

Sigils and symbols-

Serpent sigil

Sigil MASTERPOST

Some symbols

Alchemical Symbols

Malignant spirits, be gone

Spells-

Writing spells

Spell writing

Knot magic

More Knot Magic

Witches ladder

Witches ward

Cosmetics and Glamour

Glamours

Why wasn’t it successful

Wanna make time seem faster?

Beginner bos

50 simple charms

Sweet ass money spell

To remember more dreams

How to enchant an item

How to make a witches ladder

Sensory Bottle Thing

“Hail the Glow Cloud” a nightvale spell to draw surreal experiences to your area

Casting Glamors

Memory Spell

To Make Someone Forget a Secret

Banishing Nightmares

Spell to “calm the waves” (ease tension between relationships)

Actions

Disposing of Spell Remnants

Time of Day for spells

Alleviate self-hatred

Motivation star jar

Simplicity

Frost Salts

To find something lost - knot magic Sleep remedies

SLeep and dream pillows

Luck and money powder

Sigil for anxiety/panic attacks

Motivation

Spell sheet thing

A touch, a tempest

Chronically Ill Witchcraft

Storm craft-

Knots to bind the wind

More binding

Weather MASTER

Herbs and stuff used in weather magic

More weather stuff

Weather stones and other things

Predicting the sky

Whistling up wind and rain

History of the art of storm calling

Weather magic and folklore

Weather witching

Resources for storm and weather magic

Tempestarii (wiki article)

Traditional storm raising methods

Rainwater

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danisnotofire · 7 years

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Do you have any advice for writing? I used to do it all the time but then I just didnt have time for it anymore. And now I want to get back into it and I keep trying to write, but Im hit with this overwhelming doubt/anxiety that it sucks. And I dont plan on posting my writing anywhere so I dont understand why Im so nervous about writing to the point where I want to cry and cant do it. And I really want to work through it but its just so difficult. Any advice? -🌳

i’m not sure how good i’ll be at giving advice on this, because i often feel the same way!!!

but ig that leads me to my first point, anon, and that is, you have to understand that that anxious feeling never really goes away. sometimes you feel better about it, sure, and sometimes you’ll write something and know you were meant to write it, but 98.7% of the time you will be screaming and crying into ur document and thinking you’ve been a failure and faking any ability to write this whole time. you have to understand that that’s all part of it. but you have to understand: it doesn’t mean you’re a bad writer. i really think you have to internalize that if u ever wanna write anything.

the best thing to get over feeling awkward and robotic is to separate yourself from what you’re writing. when i got back into writing fic (it’d been like, legit 4 years lmaooo) it was hard to put myself aside and stop feeling weird about writing it. i felt that same stiffness/awkwardness when i started journaling too. the best thing you can do for it is just understand that nobody is going to read it unless you want them to. it’s not going anywhere. the only person who’s gonna judge it is you.

once you get over that, write as much as fucking possible. it doesn’t need to be a lot. it can be a sentence. it can be a few hundred words. it can be a fuckin novel. just write something. the only reason i’m VAGUELY good is because i’ve been doing it for a longass time.

i’ve been writing creatively on and off since like,,, third grade. i’m now a sophomore in college. you just gotta churn out as much content as possible. i promise you, eventually it will be good.

if you can, i think writing classes are actually super helpful for this. i used to kind of shun them and look down on them because i thought somebody teaching me how to write would take away my own style. it actually helped me refine it, mostly because it got me into writing again after going so long without it. i was forced to write every week for a whole semester, and it kind of became a habit that i continued all through the summer.

fun fact: i don’t think no such mirrors would exist in the form it does now if i hadn’t taken that class!!

BUT: I get that classes aren’t always available to you. there are definitely ways u can get urself in that habit!!! you can do nanowrimo (which i did my freshman and sophomore years of high school, where you write 50k in 30 days just to pretty much see if you can. i CANNOT recommend nanowrimo enough. up until no such mirrors, that was my proudest artistic accomplishment)

FIND TIME TO WRITE WHENEVER, WHEREVER YOU CAN. you are going to have to sacrifice certain things to find time to write, but that’s all part of it. i struggled in doing this when i started school this semester because i went from having mostly my entire week free to having like, zero time to write, which is why it took a month for no such mirrors to update. it also sucked because writing makes me feel better about myself, because it helps me be a more productive member of society or something, and so, although it was hard, it became super important to me to find a time to fit that back into my schedule (i ended up carving out a few hours after my last class of the day on MWF, which happened to be my english class with a prof whomst i ADORE, so i always left feeling super inspired. and now i usually go to the silent floor of the library for a few hours and pound out a few thousand words. it’s not ideal, and ofc i’d rather be taking a nap or decompressing from class, but at least it’s something!)

i know this is harder to do, but i really do think posting your work helps!! i love writing fic because you get INSTANTANEOUS feedback on your skills, and it helps you develop them in a (largely) positive and supportive atmosphere. the people who are reading fic are the people who WANT to like it, who are just desperate for any content they can get. it’s such a good space to learn and grow as a writer (i started writing and posting fic when i was like, 12 years old. my percy jackson days. pre-tumblr. lmao #neverforget)

i know this is SUPER FUCKING CHEESY, but another thing that helps you become a better writer is to read as much as possible. read anything. read fanfiction from authors you admire. read YA novels. read children’s books. read the classics.

and then, (and this is something i will shamelessly do lol), pick your favorites, and try and mimic their style as an exercise!!! i recently read james joyce’s “a portrait of the artist as a young man” for class. it’s now one of my favorite books. and so what i did was go to google docs and pound out a few hundred words just trying to mimic the style. it ended up being a weird 1500-word-wip. most of it is garbage, but i wrote lines i’m really fucking proud of.

obviously don’t like, plagiarize. but what i’ve come to understand is that you can learn something from everything you read. whether it’s a certain type of metaphor, or a kind of characterization, or the art of simplicity, or a way of writing dialogue, or a stylistic thing. and by mimicking that style as a writing exercise or using their style as inspiration for your own work, you help refine what you like, and what your style is.

i will never be james joyce. that’s pretty obvious. but my version of james joyce is its own style of writing altogether, and it’s not necessarily bad! it’s its own style that i can then learn bits and pieces from later on. to me, writing is this weird ungodly mix of natural ability/learned style and compiling what you like about other authors into your own work. it’s a messy process, but eventually you will churn out something you like. and that’s what matters: producing content that you enjoy. everything else will come in time. (did i think anybody would read engagement sequence? uh, no. i hoped they would, and honestly i do wish that fic was recognized more than it was (bc any author who says they don’t care about feedback is LYING) but mostly i was writing it because i had SO MUCH FUN writing that fic. i’m probably most proud of that piece of writing out of everything i’ve ever written. it came from me combining poetry and prose into this weird pseudo mix of both)

another thing that’s easier said than done: DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHER AUTHORS. this is something i CONSTANTLY struggle with (to the point where i get SUPER down on myself if i’m not getting the same amount of anons asking about my work or comments or kudos or fuckin’ whatever). it’s something i CONSTANTLY have to work on, but it’s so so important, and the sooner you start working away from this habit the better off you’ll be.

if anything, USE these authors as people to learn from!! ask them questions about their process!! read their works and take note of what worked really well and how they executed it, so maybe you can incorporate that into things that you write later on.

IMPORTANT: COMMENT ON WORKS. COMMENTING ON WORKS DOESN’T ONLY BENEFIT THE AUTHOR, BUT IT ALSO BENEFITS YOU AS A WRITER. commenting helps you specify and work out EXACTLY what you liked about a certain piece. even if you don’t think it does anything, it actually puts words to specific things that you like, which then helps you incorporate it into your own writing. also?? long, thoughtful comments make an author’s fuckin DAY. someone once left like an 8 paragraph review on my fic, and i could. not. stop. rereading. it. for the better part of a week. TRULY.

take yourself less seriously. honestly. as much as it kind of sucks, writing is supposed to be fun and ultimately, it’s supposed to be rewarding. let yourself experiment with style and dialogue and characterization. who fucking cares? i wrote 300 words about spaghetti steam as a metaphor for jeremy’s parents’ divorce the other day. it doesn’t matter! nobody will read it!! that’s what editing is for.

it also might help to talk about your writing process!! i know i love doing this, and i see loads of other authors do it too. it’s so, so, so fun to complain about writing, because writing is really fucking hard. even the pieces that come easiest to me are still a pain in the ass to write. 99.99% of the time i write, i would rather be doing something, anything else. who wants to sit and cry into a computer screen? nobody in their right mind. ya do it because you love it, and you love the final product and you love seeing what you’re able to do, what you’re capable of creating.

if you’re having trouble starting, pick literally the first thing that comes to mind and write as much or as little as you fuckin’ want. remember, you’re in control! you can do as much or as little as you want. when i started writing no such mirrors, i had NO IDEA it was gonna become what it was. i started the fic with jeremy throwing a baseball up in the air and some random dialogue. i didn’t know what role everybody else was gonna play. i didn’t know it was gonna turn into an actual fucking novel. i had no idea! i just had the idea of jeremy laying on his back and tossing a baseball into the air repeatedly. why? i legitimately could not tell you! but it worked. it felt right and natural and easy, and here we are 72k later.

that being said, IT’S NOT ALWAYS GOING TO FEEL RIGHT AND NATURAL AND EASY! you’re just gonna have to write through that! it’s gonna fucking suck a lot of the time, especially with longer works! i fucking hate certain chunks of no such mirrors, to the point where i can’t even bear to look at them.

this leads into another point, which is….

you’re going to feel like you’re faking it. that’s okay. keep writing. i doubt in my abilities every. goddamn. day. i reread my fics probably daily and can’t understand why anybody would like them, half the time. i feel like the characters’ interactions are forced and awkward and unnatural, i think the dialogue is boring, i think their feelings don’t feel real and i don’t feel like their motivations have depth. i feel like the plot is hanging on with masking tape and thread. every author will feel this way at some point or another. i know that sounds fake, because i’ll read posts like that from my favorite authors and can’t believe they would write anything except perfection. so you have to remember, it’s in your head most of the time.

however, that’s not to say you’re perfect. you aren’t. there’s no such thing as a perfect writer. sometimes it’s healthy to listen to that voice in your head to try and improve. you just can’t let it become the loudest part of your writing process.

so yeah! those are my writing tips!! that was a lot and im really sorry if it was all cliche and cheesy bullshit, but i promise they work, or at least help a little bit!!

i hope you can get out of ur slump, because i love writing so much and hope i never stop doing it (even if i say i hate it l o l) and i really hope you can get to the point where you feel comfortable saying the same

#writing advice #writing tips #writing #Anonymous #I'M SO SORRY TO MOBILE USERS #long post //

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mrmichaelchadler · 5 years

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Of Resolutions and Resumes…Share my Shame

I have done something I tell others not to do, and I feel some HR shame about it.

I’ve avoided updating my resume.

I mean really, why should I? I’ve got a great gig, and I am a solid performer. Why bother? I’ve had it on my New Year’s resolution list since 2016, and I continue to mentally add it every year. And then I continue to successfully avoid the task, all the while, helping others edit theirs. I even ran a Resume Review this year. The irony is not lost.

But now is the perfect time to update my resume. I’m not complacent, but I’m happy. I’ve got access to performance appraisals plus year-end reports that give me a clear idea of accomplishments I can champion. It’s all very fresh and easy to detail out. I’ve got a peer that will happily edit my resume if I can just take the time to update the doc, and I should be ready…ready for that next opportunity. I work for a very large company and that opportunity could come at any minute…and all could be lost if I need a week to pull together my resume. Or I could be faced with one of those bucket list moments, one of those jobs at one of those companies on my “list” that I just have to go for. And again, am I ready?

But I can’t use one of those pretty templates, I just can’t make the info fit. But I do have to streamline. Thankfully, I have a copy of my prior resume, so at least a starting point. I fold in my current employment and add those highlights. I hem and haw how to detail some of the accomplishments, so much of the work is team focused and collaborative. I focus on detailing my experience for the past 10 years, and anything prior to 2008 is now falling under the category of “additional experience.” I leave off volunteer work and add in publications and speaking gigs and all those certifications. Mainly because I’m a classic introvert, and it’s important for a future manager to know that I’m good at public speaking and can step out of my shell on demand.

I take my peer up on their offer and ask them to review my resume. I’m nervous, because I shouldn’t need a peer review, right? I’m an HR pro, I know this stuff, but what if it’s awful?

Turns out, it’s not awful.

And my recruiter friend did a few things that were incredibly helpful:

Sample resumes. These were helpful from a formatting standpoint, guiding me towards a visual aid with appropriate font, format, and additional information (like a one-to-two sentence summary about employer and gig). My peer is an Executive Recruiter and views hundreds of resumes on annual basis. I got two examples, and that’s all that was needed to set me on the right formatting path.

Prioritize the achievements. When you are writing your resume, you are too close to the content. Another set of eyes really guides you in how to clearly prioritize the most important wins, especially if the other set of eyes understands what you want to do next in your career.

Question the content. That fresh set of eyes? It’s helpful if they don’t know everything about you. My peer has only known me for a couple of years and could question what was on my resume and what should not be on my resume.

Encourage me to have the resume accessible. Store it on my phone, in Google Drive, LinkedIn, and in a .pdf format so it’s ready to go when needed.

The end result? I met the two-page challenge. Now I’m ready for whatever may be next.

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