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svelteParticipantTo me, an immediate red flag is a candidate who has 10 years of work history, 1-2 years at each company. That tells me there is a problem of some sort…I mean once or twice could be a bad fit but a half dozen times of that, it’s the employee not the companies.
I had a problem child handed over to me awhile back as a last resort. I too failed and turning this person around and they left the company. While looking through their file, I found the resume this person gave us when we interviewed them. Sure enough, 10 years and not more than 1.5 years at any place. I asked the folks who hired the employee – didn’t you notice this? Why the f did we bring this person aboard? They just shrugged and handed their mistake off to me to handle.
And I agree with conversation above. A wise mentor a long time ago said the point of an interview is not whether the person knows the exact technical skills we need…if they are worth their salt they can pick that up quickly as long as they have the basics in our technology field. What is more important is their thought process, their ability to get along with others and their ability to stick with something…that’s why a degree is important for an entry level person – shows they can stick with something for four or more years.
svelteParticipantsvelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Is it unreasonable to ask to be paid for a test, refundable upon failure[/quote]
Not a bad idea, but I think they should be paid, period.
Reason: I’ve heard tales of companies asking candidates to solve a problem. When the candidate turned in the solution, the company was never heard from again – they had their solution and used it…in other words, they used the “take a test” guise to get free work done.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]
Then there was this candidate that we wanted to move into round 2 of the interview, and the way we do it do a take home assignment that the candidate can work on his free time (without the pressure/stress of a chalkboard/whiteboarding programming exercise in traditional interview)…But the candidate got all butt hurt that it took 2-3 hours, and then was upset that the earliest interview time we could give him was 4 days later….
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In the past when I interviewed, if someone asked me to take a test I told them I just changed my mind and am no longer interested in their company. I still found jobs and it apparently never hurt my salary level.I get that some companies want to ensure I have the chops I say I have, but at the same time I had no problem finding a job so I didn’t have to put up with the hassle of taking tests. Next!
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There’s like a $8000 bounty for each referral at my company. I’m pretty sure other companies have similar things. [/quote]From what I’ve seen, I think that is true.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]To be young and conservative is to be brainless.
To be old and liberal is to be brave.
[/quote]Love it!
svelteParticipant[quote=EconProf]
Of course much of this change is due to simply getting old. As Winston Churchill said, paraphrasing, “To be young and not liberal is to have no heart. To be old and not conservative is to have no head.”[/quote]When I was in my 30s and 40s, I used to say that quote a lot.
I haven’t said it for about 10 years.
The reason is that, as I began approaching “old” I did not turn very conservative and I started to think about why that is, in relation to that quote. I’ve come to this conclusion: it is describing (young & liberal then old & conservative) a self-centered person.
Young folks are typically poorer and often need to leverage public benefits like student loans or grants, assistance with health care, child care or even food. As one ages and acquires wealth, those public benefits no longer benefit them and they view them as expenses. They vote to minimize the public benefits that they themselves once used. Think school bonds to support their local school district.
Self-centered.
svelteParticipant[quote=Coronita]
Life hack #231…Buy lots of annual flowers from Home Depot and plant them in the front yard so that your house looks very nice from the curb for rental prospects…[/quote]
Heh. I did something similar when selling a house one time. I bought a bunch of plastic flowers and inserted them in the front yard plants, since it was off-season and they weren’t blooming.
I’ve always wondered how long it took the new owner to figure out that the flowers were plastic.
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Is a year long enough?[/quote]
See his Nov 10, 2020 post.
He said by the end of 2021 or it probably won’t happen.
svelteParticipant“Mortgage/tax payment on SD single family home divided by equal-weighted SD rent and per-capita income”
Appears to mean (SD SFR mortgage payment / SD SFR tax payment) / (SD rent payment + per-capita income).
Or does it mean
(SD SDR Mortgage + tax payment) / (SD rent payment + per-capita income)I’m not sure how that correlates to XBoxBoy’s data on house prices. I guess you could argue that house prices correlate to mortgage payments, but I’m not sure that’s true. And what any of that has to do with rent or income I’m not sure.
svelteParticipant[quote=sdrealtor]Interest rates and inflation account for higher cost and price of just about everything everywhere. Devalue the dollar and flood with currency and prices will rise. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.
For me the question is what explains the rest of it. Why do prices rise more and faster here than Cleveland? Why do single family homes rise more than condos. Why has beach area properties appreciated more than East County?
While he did an excellent job, I think it’s just showing how markets behave in general and I’m always looking for the exceptions that allow one to beat the market. Am I missing something?[/quote]
I think the answer to all of your questions in the second paragraph boil down to one word: desirability. SD is more desirable than Cleveland (where the term “sunshine tax” came from), SFR are more desirable that condos, and beach property is more desirable that desert. Not sure there is much mystery in that. The question you may really be asking is how does one calculate how much more something is worth given that it is more desirable.
I’m not willing to pay more to live at the beach as I would probably hate it there (traffic, moisture, etc), but I’m willing to pay more to not live in the desert which is why I live about 11 miles from the coast. And I’m definitely willing to pay more for a SFR than a condo…a little more privacy is worth something to me, though I don’t need so much privacy that I need to move to the desert! 🙂
svelteParticipantXBoxBoy,
This is a truly impressive piece of work. I love your thought process and how you used that to drive what you research and how you present it.
There is no “but”, this work stands on its own and deserves kudos.
It is interesting to see how interest rates and inflation can account for darn near everything we see in San Diego housing prices, as your overlays clearly show. As others have pointed out there are other things that influence prices also, but most years that is in the noise while on rare occasion they truly do need to be factored in.
Again, congratulations. We’ll never get house prices down to an exact science because humans are emotional creatures, but it is fascinating to see how you can get into the ballpark by relating a few key facts.
Thank you!
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Like the world would be better if it listened to me, or econprof? Lol. Essentially, we are all in agreement…destroy and consume the earth. Our only quibble is how fast to consume it and how to divide the carcass…[/quote]
look at the bright side, scaredy. The sun isn’t going to last forever anyway. And when its gone, what we did to Mother Earth will not matter one iota.
svelteParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
.Utah is NEVER gonna release a repeat offenor from jail? 3 shopliftings and you get life? deadzone will buy a house before you see you’re full of crap! basically, the republicans of utah will talk a good game of “personal responsibility” and instead of actually taking responsibility for its people,
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My wife and I travel all over. People always warned us to watch our for NYC, Rome and Naples but you know what? Not a single problem in those cities and we are out late at night often.Know where we have had problems? Utah! Not once but on two separate trips we’ve had our cc number stolen while there. I tend to think Utahans may not be that bright so scammers can run scams there a long, long time before getting caught. Had to have our cc canceled and new ones sent during the trips. What a pain in the butt.
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hunker down in utah old man. keep on believing you’re getting “smarter”. i think old people get crankier and dumber because of aches and pain, general inflammation, and decreased blood flow, and fear, fear based on weakness…a sense that the world is slipping away, out of control, and the only way to ensure predictable safety is to bring the hammer down hard on everyone who presents any risk whatsoever.[/quote]I think that’s part of it and part of it is that old folks get tired of seeing the world make the same stupid mistakes. We all have a different idea on what those mistakes are, but whatever their viewpoint it gets old seeing very little being learned from prior generations.
svelteParticipant[quote=deadzone][quote=svelte]The only way housing will tank is if something hits employment and the government doesn’t ease the pain by giving them cash.
That would force some homeowners into selling or foreclosure, but any of that happening is still awhile away. At least in SoCal. It will happen again at some point in the future but not this year.
The stock market, on the other hand. That’s a different story.[/quote]
Unemployment doesn’t matter as long as USG continues their rent and foreclosure moratoriums. Plus endless money printing from the Fed which is creating more rich people to keep buying up all assets like there is no tomorrow.[/quote]
I point your attention to the line “and the government doesn’t ease the pain by giving them cash.”
Also CA rent moratorium ends June 30. San Diego County on Aug 15.
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