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Don’t Believe These 10 Job Search Myths

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Are you having zero luck when it comes to your job searching? If that is a yes, there might be something wrong with your job search strategy.

Coming up with one is easy, but there are job search myths you have to debunk, so it won’t affect how you see job searching and its nuances.

Here are 10 job search myths you shouldn’t believe in and why they are myths.

1. You Will Get Your Next Job Online

Some believe that if you apply to many jobs online, you will eventually get to the top list and land the job. While applying to all the jobs you see will make you feel productive, there is no guarantee that you will get it as some positions are filled through recommendations or internally.

To get more chances to get considered for the job, don’t just stick to online job applications. Check with…

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Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons From Z’ha’dum (B5:s3e22) On Hope

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This week’s lessons:

1. Those who trust you will show you their true faces.

2. We fight “not against powers or principalities… but against the death of hope.”

This is one of G’Kar’s best monologues:

We fight not against powers or principalities, … but against the death of hope. … The future is always born in pain.

Let’s learn, ourselves, please, to keep building hope.

We can Do Better.

Last Monday’s review was S3e21Minbari Mondays, and Two Lessons “Shadow Dancing” (B5:s3e21) Teaches on Living ,

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Next Minbari Monday will be a new year: 2261

Season 4e1: ;

Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa.

I come in peace, I am your friend.

Action Prompts:

1.) Share your thoughts on how we Human Beings might start to build a more fully inclusive society for all of us, and how this episode of Babylon 5 could help that…

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♫ Who’ll Stop The Rain ♫ (Redux)

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Tonight I am tired and hot because the air-conditioning went south, and I have to be up early to greet the maintenance dude when he shows up to (hopefully) repair the air!  So, I am reduxing one that I played two years ago and hope you’ll enjoy it!


Group leader John Fogerty wrote this song. Released in 1970, the song is often interpreted as a protest of the Vietnam War (like Fortunate Son), but when he performed it at the Arizona state fair in 2012, Fogerty told the crowd that he had been at Woodstock, watching the rain come down. He watched the festival goers dance in the rain, muddy, naked, cold, huddling together, and it just kept raining. So when he got back home after that weekend, he sat down and wrote Who’ll Stop the Rain, making it not a Vietnam protest at all, but a recounting…

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