so your applying for work? yeah good for you, prepare the lubrication my man. they'll usually ream you with the following gauntlet: - high school grades -- yes chemistry grade from ur pot smoking year matters - university degree -- u passed another compliance filter - maybe certs -- yeah paid for those too yourself didnt you? - an online portfolio -- give out ur ip that u developed on top of a job - free conference talks -- yeah more free ip - free opensource projects -- trade ur best ideas for... digital gold stars(?? are u a fucking child??) - apply for job - attach job references - initial screening with hr whatever - has no clue what theyre even interviewing for - take home "case study" (free) - white boarding (free) - live coding test (free) - youll hear from us in a month maybe try to flip the script, i dare you, see what happens... ask recruiter: "sure man ill show you mine if u show me urs". - i wanna know if your like cool, show me ur "culture blog posts" - hire a dude for me for free, i wanna see ur process, for free of course - ill need some references from u darling... how would i know ur cool otherwise? - im interviewing at a couple other places too.... ill let u know... at some point.. maybe make them really beg man. see how desperate they are. why is this unreasonable? **naive programmer:** "hey baby, i got like 500 stars on github on that project i spend the laste couple months building. im sorry i had to work so much. " **baby:** oh thats great, so those are like bitcoin? so we can like afford rent now? **naive programmer:** no... like it's virtual gold stars.. but like.. it means im like.. cool now! **also him:** yeah and some new billion dollar startup uses it now, really cool man! which other field requires someone to not only have institutional credentials. but also do free work live. do free work and publish it freely. in their free time. for free. supposedly the company im interviewing for is not publishing their IP for free?? i wanna know if your coders are cool, i have a little case study for them, see if i wanna work with them too. and also... why do we get paid on credit? why not get paid upfront rather than back pay?... ever asked a lawyer who passed the bar to like... do a free case for you? no thats what the fucking bar is for... they publish their work for free? no thats the consulting business. why do we accept this? people working other jobs are not expected to also basically write research in their spare time and publish it for free lol... next step... attempt the same sorta assymetry on a date. yeah tell me about your job, how much u make, also, show me ur tits and.. other parts. ill keep my clothes on... let you know or not later if im interested or not... need some time to think man. really dig deep on 'em, evaluate and then get all like snippy if they ask questions back man. well u think that was weird of me to write? feels like i just described a psychopath of sorts yeah? ... exactly. i dont publish my stuff for free. i got a nice link to my cert stack somewhere. u can read. the certs are there to prove i can do the work. we can chat on phone, if you know what your talking about, u can tell when u meet the real deal...