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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 15m

That was basically what happened to me when I shifted from corporate actions to advisory compliance. The work is way less interesting but my scope of coverage is way bigger now that I'm not specializing in two specific revenue code sections lol

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 19m

People in my current firm act like I am a wizard because I put together a report a couple years ago with color coded headers and bullet points instead of narrative summaries.

I SERIOUSLY underappreciated how much people struggle with coherently summarizing information

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah same, I've had way better luck with LinkedIn. It's also kind of funny because now that I do have the big bank on my resume every door is wide open even though my prior experience was as a legal SME for an industry leading compliance systems vendor.

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 1h

me with my philosophy major and my job playing math games for rich people who like cogent explanations of the math games

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I've said this ten million times because this stupid take never dies. The BUSINESS VALUE is that you can teach a kid just about anything if they know how to read and write. I can teach a kid math, but they're useless to me if they can't at least outline the memo about what the math means

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 2h

I think there's a lot of that tbh. I only got the job I have now because someone who already worked at the firm physically put a paper copy of my resume in front of his manager. I didn't get through any of the screeners because I didn't go to an Ivy and didn't already work for a bigger firm

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly. A full half my job is just taking ridiculously complicated technical stuff and dumbing it down for senior management who don't actually need the details except for when they do

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JB @jables.bsky.social · 2h

Based on my own professional experience, I’d go as far as to say that if you just hope to have a general white collar job and don’t have your eyes on a specific niche, an English or other humanities degree is perhaps the single most useful education to have.

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 2h

I am a true generalist and it's been very surprising to me how few people sit in this niche. My actual subject matter expertise is governance and change management, in large part because I can get up to speed on just about anything very quickly

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Banach Space Program @banachspaceprogram.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a math guy through and through (two degrees in it, taught it for ~15 years, currently work as a statistician, getting a mathematically-based tattoo on Friday), and the correct answer to this question has ALWAYS been "both, they need to be able to do both."

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I've said this ten million times because this stupid take never dies. The BUSINESS VALUE is that you can teach a kid just about anything if they know how to read and write. I can teach a kid math, but they're useless to me if they can't at least outline the memo about what the math means

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yup. I'm eternally grateful for my first job when I was at a software vendor and it was eye opening to learn how requirements needed to be communicated

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah this all tracks with my experience. The best devs I've worked with usually have a philosophy major or minor in there somewhere lol

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I wanted to go into foreign service originally so the question for me was mostly whether I'd be going to law school or doing a PhD. Nobody was more surprised than me that I ended up falling in love with the tax code of all things

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 3h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, I get why doctors and their defenders have this attitude, but it's wrong and it fucks over patients all the time. The doctor should take ownership of getting you appropriate care, which includes filling out the fucking paperwork and doing it correctly. Sure maybe it's beneath them but too bad.

Coonbaya My Lord @powdercuff.bsky.social · 15h

A doctors job is to provide care, not argue with a health insurance rep about why their patient needs a certain medication or procedure. This unnecessary administrative task also adds to the burn out that is rife among healthcare workers. I’m begging yall to read!

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly. And like, obviously there's caveats to this but I went to a weirdly STEM heavy undergrad for being a small liberal arts school and all our science majors still had to take writing intensives and do a thesis-style capstone, they were baked into the structure of all our majors.

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

A cover letter is the kind of thing that would work for me as well! It's really annoying our campus recruitment people make the internship candidates do a video interview thing to submit with their resume and I'm just over here begging for 300 word writing samples

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not going to pretend like my path is replicable because I can't imagine most people shitpost their way into a job offer via Twitter DM but the point is that proficiency in the humanities is foundational career skill shit and students who don't have it are at a huge disadvantage in the workplace

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

Anyways what do I know, I'm just parroting the advice I got from a director at Goldman when I was 19. My "useless" humanities BA gave me research/writing skills that led to me writing journal articles in my first job and allowed me to skip two full career levels when I moved into banking.

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I actively screen out STEM majors when I'm hiring interns/analysts unless they've paired it with a humanities minor because I *need* to know they are comfortable with dense texts and can parse out the nuances of a given regulation. The lib arts degree gives me a very workable proxy for writing skill

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I think it's partially that and partially that people don't always recognize when they're part of a group in the specific way we're talking about here. Being invisible is still being "in" the group and MOST people are socially invisible in the high school sense of clique dynamics

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 3h

I've said this ten million times because this stupid take never dies. The BUSINESS VALUE is that you can teach a kid just about anything if they know how to read and write. I can teach a kid math, but they're useless to me if they can't at least outline the memo about what the math means

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like people have a weird blind spot about this even though it's pretty intuitive if you've ever watched a group of kids play or encountered PTA moms

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 4h

A thing that stuck with me from graduate school is that when humans don’t have ingroup / outgroup distinction in a given group, they will invent one.

John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 8h

everything is actually shirts and skins, people's positions are dictated entirely by what groups they're members of and what other groups those groups are fighting with, and we just rationalize the results

-- an exaggerated version of a true statement

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Eli | Artist and Illustrator @elijahkart.bsky.social · 12h

Spooky #art

An ominous woman sits in a dimly lit office. Her head is amorphous and dark. This is an ink drawing

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 4h

My husband might have been madder about it than me because I was very much on time for the 7:20 train that left as I was stepping into the platform at 7:18

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