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Show HN: Career Fair – Learn about Jobs by People Who Have Done Them
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#12Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out. Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut. From the interview: > What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many p…
Well, how can you expect an astronaut to have a good answer to the biggest roadblock? You need to poll some people who tried but failed to become astronauts. They would know more.
Huh interesting. You could have a website where for each job people want you find someone who failed at each point along the way to getting it, so you can know what to avoid doing yourself.
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#13The "interviews" seem to be scraped from Reddit AMAs, take the veterinarian one: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/veterinarian. The first question seems to be exactly this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k4jkh/iama_veterinari...
This is a rebranding of content farmed from Reddit, which we've seen all over the clickbait journalism world...
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#14The "interviews" seem to be scraped from Reddit AMAs, take the veterinarian one: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/veterinarian . The first question seems to be exactly this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k4jkh/iama_veterinari... This is a rebranding of content farmed from Reddit, which we've seen all over the clickbait journalism world...
hey there - thanks for bringing this up. right now the main goal is to get as much content up as possible, and I leveraged reddit for 2-3 of these interviews. Another one is:
https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/firefigher
Going forward, I'm going to aim to have all interviews be sourced by myself. Thanks for checking out the site :)
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#15This is awesome. I was thinking about something similar. There is currently nothing right now which tells you about the day-to-day workings of several professions. Watching this space.
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#16The "interviews" seem to be scraped from Reddit AMAs, take the veterinarian one: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/veterinarian . The first question seems to be exactly this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/k4jkh/iama_veterinari... This is a rebranding of content farmed from Reddit, which we've seen all over the clickbait journalism world...
hey there - thanks for bringing this up. right now the main goal is to get as much content up as possible, and I leveraged reddit for 2-3 of these interviews. Another one is: https://www.careerfair.io/reviews/firefigher Going forward, I'm going to aim to have all interviews be sourced by myself. Thanks for checking out the site :)
Then the proper way to do this is list the sources at the bottom of each.
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#17Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out. Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut. From the interview: > What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many p…
Well, how can you expect an astronaut to have a good answer to the biggest roadblock? You need to poll some people who tried but failed to become astronauts. They would know more.
Failure is the best teacher, in that things working out the way you want them to almost always has a lower probability than the other way around (i.e. you're very good at basketball, so you should have a good chance of being in the NBA right?) This is why easy success stories are so demoralizing to people; they are hearing about the few who got lucky vs the countless ones who did everything they could to succeed but it just didn't work out.
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#18Love the site. Read a few interviews. I agree with the comment about wishing the interviews were longer and more fleshed out. Take for instance astronaut. Although it offered some nice antidotes, I still don't know what its like to be an astronaut. From the interview: > What was your biggest roadblock to becoming an astronaut, and how did you overcome it? ...Being able to be brave enough to actually apply. Too many p…
Well, how can you expect an astronaut to have a good answer to the biggest roadblock? You need to poll some people who tried but failed to become astronauts. They would know more.
Sure, but when the astronaut application job posting recently came up, I was super excited. I would leave my technical job in a heartbeat to be an astronaut. But, the qualifications specifically needed specific things. Like, iirc, degrees in hard engineering disciplines. Otherwise it was a clear "No." I would expect them to mention things like really, really needing a hard engineering masters (at least, if not PhD) to even not get weeded out at resume review stage.
Also, I know two astronauts relatively well and they say the same thing when the topic has come up. One took a non traditional approach to being an astronaut, applying many times over years, but still had a hard science advanced degree. It's literally a requirement in the application.
To my chagrin, I will never be an astronaut.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, how can you expect an astronaut to have a good answer to the biggest roadblock? You need to poll some people who tried but failed to become astronauts. They would know more.
Sure, but when the astronaut application job posting recently came up, I was super excited. I would leave my technical job in a heartbeat to be an astronaut. But, the qualifications specifically needed specific things. Like, iirc, degrees in hard engineering disciplines. Otherwise it was a clear "No." I would expect them to mention things like really, really needing a hard engineering masters (at least, if not PhD) t…
Crista McAuliffe was a social-studies teacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe
Where there is a will, sometimes there is a way.
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#20Good effort. How do I know these are valid entries ?