Once I picked up a hitchhiker and gave him some weed.
Halfway to Barstow?
Nah. Just a dude trying to make the train.
I picked up another dude who was brimming with hope for a job interview he was walking three miles to in the 100 degree heat.
I hope it worked out.
Not really big or anything, but almost 20 years ago it was my first time visiting Vegas from across the world to attend a conference. I had a very limited travel budget and was carrying three $100 bills as my allowance provided by my employer. Took a taxi from the airport to the hotel and it didn't cross my mind that most taxis won't really have change for $100 for a $12 ride. The driver was kind enough to just let me go without paying, probably because she could tell I was a tourist and was panicking because I had nothing else to pay with.
Old HR lady, rejected me as soon as I entered for the interview. She scholded me and spend about 2 hours teaching me how to act at an interview. On the same after noon I had 2 other job interviews, I got both jobs and I got to choose my "dream" job that ended up sucking and I should have taken the other with bigger pay. (But hey that HR lady really helped me a lot even if she did not have to I was rejected about 15-20 times at interviews before I met her).
May I know, what triggered her about your interview appearance?
How I was dressed (a non tailored suit), body language, handshake, and voice (low volume and fast). Over all looking like an insecure guy trying too hard.
She told me to change the suit for a well suiting more sporty attire I feel comfy in. How introduce myself (we practiced having an elevator pitch prepared) and how to have a "bigger" precense. I'm already quite tall and have a big frame (due to swimming for years as a kid) and she told me how to use my body and body language to look more competent and have a more commanding but friendly precense. To talk slow and clear etc. (All her tips not only helped me in the working world but also in real life as well).
Once saw some people giving a big box of food, dog food, and supplies to a man with dogs that looked homeless and he laughed and turned it down because he wasn't homeless, he was just on a camping trip, had taken a fall, and was currently waiting for someone in the store to get a first aid kit to clean some cuts he got.
When my neighbors said my family could sleep on their couches. I slept on the couch of one neighbor. My brother went to a different neighbor and my mom to a third place. It was either that or the car in a parking lot. This between my junior and senior year in high school
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