“you don’t seem desperate enough… that might mean you expect more than slave labor, which complicates things for our company.”
Depends how you frame it—gap sounds bad, took time to learn/reset sounds way better 😅
‘Entreprenuer’ is just a way of saying unemployed to make rich assholes feel smug about it. Writing a resume is just recoding every event so its written correctly for rich assholes to feel smug.
If you have enough financial security to be able to not work for a year, then the company may not want to hire you. Ideally it needs you to depend on it for everything, because this ensures you’ll be a well-behaved slave for an extended period of time.
Yep. They want desperate people.
… but not too desperate; clients might be scared off if the parking lot is full of rusted out 90s econboxes…
The care about compliance. If You go “I don’t give a fuck about the norm” You’ll have a good time while you say it and then probably a rejection.
I agree that they shouldn’t care but they do. Unless they are cool.
They’ll use anything to reject you. But I don’t think they “care”.
“I enjoyed life for a bit, focused on hobbies, family and so should you”
I’ve had gaps, and no employer has ever asked me anything about them.
I’d guess that filling the gap with pretty much anything is better then leaving an actual gap. Maybe add a proof from police that you weren’t in jail or something.
If a candidate shows me police proof they weren’t in jail, I would be very suspicious: why did they do that? I would never even consider they were in jail, but now that they bring it up…
Just say you retired. And then got bored.
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Oh fuck, that’s an enjoyable response. Unless theres something they can check about that. I dont know enough about employment.
NDAs are almost never all-encompassing. It may not even be legal. Usually an NDA is something like “I worked for [defense contractor] for three years as a mechanical engineer. I can’t tell you about the projects I worked on, but I can elaborate on my responsibilities.”
Unless they want your fingerprints, they probably aren’t going to check your tax history and that is how they’d find out you lied. If you worked somewhere, you’d have been paid and that means taxes. Some US states protect your tax info from background checks, but not all.
That was my “On the lam” year. It worked, and here I am. When do I start?
“Sabbatical.”
*taps sign*
One must speak the language of the bourgeois to win his favor.
My response: “I’m a software developer. Middle manager douchebags told me they don’t need my services because they think they can code their apps themselves. Ain’t my first rodeo. They’ll beg us come back to maintain this shit.”
(Happened last time with VBA.)
Like totally
