So, I applied for a job. People tend *not* to answer my applications, probably because my resume very clearly states I implemented malloc in fasm, among other things.

I imagine them going like "Sir, this is a Wendy's", or rather "we're looking for a 10X rockstar AnalScript ZAZQUACH mongoose-deus puffery quarter-stack developer". Fair enough, I certainly don't fit that bill.

But this time I not only got an answer, the guy went like "I'm impressed". Is this... recognition? From a human? What?

Fellas, I cannot process this emotion. Being frank, it's not even about the job. But willfully going against the idiocy of the industry standard, and then seeing that utterly deranged move actually amounting to something -- no matter how small -- is quite uncanny.

And of fucking course, it's a Perl job. Figures. Great minds think alike.

My head hurts far too much to form a coherent response, so I’ll just stick with:

Best of luck!

@jestdotty I don't know. There's not a lot of positions I can *confidently* apply for, as they always list a dozen requirements I could not even begin to bullshit, frameworks and the like. So maybe I'll send out a few from time to time and get no answer, or be directly contacted by a recruiter and __then__ get no answer.

The few times I make it to an interview, they ask me about my projects and experience, and so I have to explain to the poor HR girl what a compiler is. She likely walks away from that thinking I'm mentally unstable, but no, it's all true. I teach calculators how to read!!!

Or maybe they'll have me do a "technical evaluation", that is, solve a contrived and poorly worded math problem on a hackerrank-like site that doesn't even let me tab out to my terminal, or God forbid, explain my reasoning to a human. Fucked if I've ever passed one of those.

Yeah, now that I think about it, I barely apply for shit. It's just demoralizing.

The reasonable approach must yield results. It must! Even in unreasonable industry.