The Miscellaneous Thread

I had a crack at E&Y, fell at the first hurdle (tests). Ridiculous how competitive these grad schemes are. Why can't they just ask everyone to send in a cv and give them an interview! I applied for Audit in B'ham. I thought, nobody will want to be an Auditor or work in B'ham...not the case it seems!

I feel you man. Annoying when it's always you who has to send the first Facebook message. It's really annoying with girls as well, makes it good when you get the occasional message from them saying they want to catch up.

Appreciate the regular appearances in your signature. I hope it's for the right reasons.

It's always hard to keep in touch with people man. I've found really high quality people are a rare breed, and some friends are just out of convenience. I lived abroad for a year and I miss some great friends I made out there terribly. You meet people through life who you say you'll keep in touch with but it often doesn't happen.

Ah unlucky man, maybe next time. Yeah Audit is one of hardest to crack. The online tests just are practise, more applications you do the better you'll get. I've turned my back on Finance career for the moment, something that I'd always been fixated on. The deadlines next week but it's too saturated tbh, and only the elite get it anyway. I've plumped for tax Auditing, will qualify and then maybe either have a crack at IB or just work for a few years, eventual aim is own business though.

Yeah I've made a points not to text girls first now (unless urgent of course) as then they get into a mindset that you're there to be trodden on, and this works well for me- it's them who has to do the chasing not me which is the way I like it. Would rather not play mind games but you have to...

It's very hard to find high quality people. Maybe I need to also look in myself, personally I'm just able to see through the nonsense. Or maybe not give people enough of a chance. I have made good friends from university. Maybe the problem is that I see their faults. I don't like very in your face people, great when people message me or call me, but not too much in my face.

That's pretty cheap tbh, both of you that is. She's dumb for sending it to you in the first place though I will admit.

Know that feeling man. Problem is in the situation you don't often appreciate what you have until you lose it, like you I learned the hard way. Though t least you've learnt from the mistake, are a better friend for it and will appreciate it next time you find that person, I would go as far as to say that makes the mistake worth it. A wise man once said the man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Do we feel that this kind of, almost, apathy for friendship is something that's brought us all together onto TSR and threads like this? Most of us have been using TSR for years and it's probably felt a routine thing to all of us at some point - and kinda makes it incomprehensible to me that other people don't have a platform like this? Where do non-users go to discuss fairly (by pub standards at least) in depth football tactics, or to air their views on politics and conspiracy theories and relationships etc? Like I have a lot of friends that I can talk about anything with, but rarely in the more considered / formalised medium of TSR. People seem too immature to usually discuss a lot of the more 'grown up' topics that come up on this thread and throughout the site. Do non TSR users not feel the need to share their opinions like this? Or do they have friends who they talk to in a grown up manner about this kind of stuff, and we're just here because we don't have friends like that?

Isometrix just rekt man. Stress.

Just had a phone interview for a recruitment role. Just didn't know what to say, it was so ****ing sudden. Literally 5mins after sending the application I got a phone call. Wtf no preparation whatsoever... Guess that's recruitment for you. I'm 100% sure I'm not getting that job. Was so nervous. Minor though onto the next one. Should be better next time round.

They said by Friday I should know so oh well.

Recruitment lol.

Because of the culture and especially because the people in uni these days are of the era that was brought up in solitude and computerized/mobile communication... people are socially inept. I am 23 so I am a little bit older, but generally people growing up these days stay in their rooms with their ipads/computer games and don't even talk to their familes. So how can we expect them to talk to relatively unknown people in a comfortable human manner? They can buy some nice clothes and look cool sure and have some conversational skills of course, but they generally lack warmth and humanity.

Why lol. Genuinely interested as to the problems there?

They're all ****ing cowboys.

Do we feel that this kind of, almost, apathy for friendship is something that's brought us all together onto TSR and threads like this? Most of us have been using TSR for years and it's probably felt a routine thing to all of us at some point - and kinda makes it incomprehensible to me that other people don't have a platform like this? Where do non-users go to discuss fairly (by pub standards at least) in depth football tactics, or to air their views on politics and conspiracy theories and relationships etc? Like I have a lot of friends that I can talk about anything with, but rarely in the more considered / formalised medium of TSR. People seem too immature to usually discuss a lot of the more 'grown up' topics that come up on this thread and throughout the site. Do non TSR users not feel the need to share their opinions like this? Or do they have friends who they talk to in a grown up manner about this kind of stuff, and we're just here because we don't have friends like that?