I'm in a highly specialized profession with a small national professional community so comparisons between my experiences and others' aren't easy. Like I said in an earlier comment, most employers in my field recruit nationally and want applications from other regions because otherwise they won't many applicants (the…

I work in a very specialized profession and the only opening I've seen in Minneapolis in three years didn't even acknowledge receiving my application. I've considered exploring other fields, but if I can't get a job I'm qualified for I don't think my chances of getting a job I'm not qualified for are any better.

I work in a highly specialized profession where the employers almost always have to recruit nationwide. I get final interviews which is the point where the candidate pool has been whittled down to three or four people. I'm completely qualified for each and every one of these jobs. I go in there and tell them exactly…

I would literally kill to be in your place. I'm not even exaggerating. If I went to a job interview there and was then told getting the job was a matter of fighting the other two candidates to the death, I would go Enobaria on them.

I want a home that's worth at least 50% of what I pay for it. With "amenities" that most people in this country wouldn't dream of not having in a home (e.g. central air, dishwasher.) It doesn't even have to be freestanding, just with decent enough sound insulation that I don't have to listen to my neighbor snore.…

Grrr. I've been trying to find work basically anywhere except NYC for nearly 3 years. Turns out I suck and no one wants me except my current employer. So I can't leave because I'm not independently wealthy and can't just not work. And I hate it here so much.

My house porn is The Winter Guest. I want Emma Thompson's house so bad.

I'm a professional in NYC and $100-$200 is boots, a blazer, or a really, REALLY good sweater. Not a shirt or jeans.

This every TV show on the air.

I'd recommend this twice if I could.

I hate that human garbage like these people get TV shows and book deals when decent people struggle.

Was I supposed to be familiar with "ratchet" bef0re right now? Except as one of the things in the tool box I never use?

I never really liked the movie and I never really liked King. But this post kind of makes me want to read The Shining.

This. This kind of crazy about food is female.

Tuna DOES stink up the place. I eat anchovies right out of the tin, but I do it at home because I don't want to make everyone at work puke.

I totally give old people a pass for behavior that would piss me off in a younger person.

This.

Lots of women take up more than their share of space on public transport. It's an asshole thing, not a man thing.

I loved Austen as a teenager and into my early 20s. One day at age 25 or 26 I was in the bathtub reading Mansfield Park and said "You know what? I don't give a shit about the romantic foibles of a bunch of rich girls anymore" and haven't read any Austen since.

I managed to get all the way through grad school without being assigned Catcher in the Rye. I read it by choice a few years ago and may as well have spent the time sitting on the toilet picking at my cuticles. What an overrated piece of crap.