#but i got a recommendation from my neighbor and managed to find a pdf

[wiremotherofficial]

perhaps i will set an arbitrary goal of reading a book per month

[thehivemindwrites]

A  Series of Disconnected Thoughts, Cast into the Void in No Particular Order

1. I’ve been finding myself thinking more and more about Kill Six Billion Demons recently. Not just because it’s absolutely gorgeous artwork and Moebius-meets-prog-metal stylings are extremely my shit (KSBD is responsible for adding Gojira to my rotation of workout music, and that alone has me in its debt), but because I can really appreciate a main character who is a walking disaster coming to some kind of enlightenment through a combination of getting her ass handed to her repeatedly, making questionable decisions, and basically just deciding to struggle forwards because I don’t know, what the fuck else is there to do? It’s hardly original (see: basically any shounen about The Power of Friendship and Not Giving Up) but damn if the presentation of it in this particular case isn’t particularly delightful. Plus it gave us the image of a giant hulking demon wearing a jacket that says KILL BOSS and that’s rad.The creator of KSBD is also co-creator, as it happens, of the newly released Lancer TTRPG, which I backed on Kickstarter and will, one day, get a rad fucking hardcover copy of (but for now I’m reading through the pdf and swearing oaths that one day I will play it). Anyway, as someone who also got where he is through a series of questionable decisions and getting his ass handed to him by life in general (oh, and an enormous amount of luck), I can relate. Plus the phrase “Reach heaven through violence,” while kind of terrible on the surface, feels good to shout at yourself while you’re off for a run. 

2. Part of this whole exercise thing - a side-effect of it, if you wanna call it that - is that generally I feel better about myself like in general. I’ve mentioned that before. What it doesn’t do, of course, is magically mean that I’m now 100% good and not still dogged by a persistent sense of self-loathing that I’ve just had to accept will never really go away. Like for example: I’ve lost 35 kg since starting this whole gym thing, except you might remember the goal was 40. I still haven’t hit that goal, and frankly I’ve spent the last like three months bouncing around the same like, 3 kg zone because I’ve been traveling a lot and that basically fucks up my workout and eating routine. It’s frustrating, and it sure does let the part of me that knows deep down that I’m a fat fucker and always will be no matter what I do run wild from time to time. Which is, I’m coming to understand, just gonna always be there. This stuff doesn’t go away! Ever! 

Which doesn’t mean it’s right, even a little. You tune it out and throw yourself into battle with it over and over again. You get bloodied and broken and claw back and then you get bloodied and broken some more. Insert that gif from Princess Bride of Westly saying LIFE IS PAIN, HIGHNESS here. Thing is, there’s something about the struggle that’s nice. I am not sure how motivated I’d be to do anything if part of it wasn’t motivated by the desire to prove my dumb brain wrong about, uh, me. If I wasn’t fighting the various little demons that plague me every so often, I doubt I’d be so well-adjusted. I certainly wouldn’t be mentally healthy. None of this makes sense as I read it back, of course - it sounds like I’m saying “boy it’s nice to be miserable,” which isn’t true. Being miserable sucks shit! I don’t recommend it! But it is nice to see misery coming and punch it in the face (metaphorically speaking). Sometimes I think the thing that makes me go to the gym and work so hard (this sounds like I’m bragging, but I can assure you I’m not - “work so hard” means “not collapse and fall off the elliptical after five minutes because oh god I don’t want to be here”) is out of some desire for self-annihilation through pushing myself past my physical limits. Reach heaven through violence (see, I told you it sounded cool).

3. The world has gotten really fucking bad for a lot of people, and I don’t know that it will get better for them any time soon. In fact, given the latest talk from the ol’ UN Climate Change report, it’s gonna get even worse. I would very much prefer that were not the case! It’s motivation enough to get out and vote and shit, at least for me - and as someone who is, you know, ridiculously privileged, that’s the absolute least I can do. Which is why I try to do more, mostly involving donating money to causes that seem like they’re able to cause the sort of trouble that needs to be caused. Or just use expertise to protect the people I don’t know how to protect, because I’m a lot of things, and one of them happens to be smart enough to know that I don’t know shit. So I make sure people that do know shit have the money they need. Pretty straightforward, I think. 

The other thing I try to do, because giving money isn’t really something I think about much at all (I’m stupidly fucking fortunate to have a job that pays well, remember), is occasionally go out and actually be present at protests and the like - there are a lot of climate protests and they’re all a good time. Occasionally it’s worth overcoming one’s intense social anxiety to do so. Lord knows it’s significantly less of a risk for me to be out shouting at cops than most. 

4. She-Ra might be one of the best shows out there. There’s something nice about a show that both does and does not present a simple world. Yes, the Horde is bad. Like, objectively bad! They do a lot of looting and subjugating and are generally just deeply not chill people.On the other hand, the people who make up the Horde are still people, and I have a lot of time for a show that can manage to humanize its Big Bad Villain whilst still making it very clear they are  still, you know, not good. It’s messy, and complicated, and sad, because sometimes you have to fight people you used to be friends with! Sometimes you have to make the call that hey, we can’t be friends anymore, because I can’t support the things you’re doing anymore. I’ve made that call before - I bet everyone has, at some point (if you haven’t, I’m sure you’ll have to eventually). Fortunately for me, it’s never been that difficult of a choice, if only because the people I had to go against weren’t people I’d known for very long. 

Anyway, that’s part of it - you gotta just cut people out sometimes. There’s more to it though, because the other thing the show believes is that everyone - even the real shitty people - can change. It doesn’t mean everything’s forgiven, and it doesn’t erase all the bad shit, but they can still change. It’s worth changing, even if it isn’t a cure-all. 

So yeah, I like She-Ra a lot. It’s also just well-written, and funny, and it’s a real good time to see a bunch of diverse characters running around having adventures and being fuckin’ rad. Plus, they’ve shown an incredible willingness to completely change the stakes from season to season - the end of season four in particular is  the equivalent of detonating all the things you thought were important. It pulls a bait and switch so ruthless that I might have applauded if I wasn’t so self-conscious about making noise that my neighbors might hear. The combination of season 3 and 4 was a masterclass on raising the stakes and then explaining that actually, you were playing for stakes even higher than you could’ve thought possible. Oh, and the people you thought you could trust were just using you, and hey, what if we got rid of the thing that you’ve more or less defined yourself by for the entire show? Good luck in season five, motherfucker! I’m a fan, is what I’m saying.

6. Work on Vanquisher 2103 continues apace. I mentioned this before, but we’re doing a once-a-month schedule while the holidays and work beat my ass into the ground, and as it turns out I really enjoy taking a full month to write a chapter. It’s a comically slow pace, but it’s working for me and hopefully the fact that the chapters have tended to be a little longer (and allowed me to expand on ideas a little more, and do a little more research here and there) makes it worth the longer wait. I’d like this thing to be good! There’s a part of my brain, again, that will always insist that nobody reads this and it’s bad and I’m fucking up, constantly - that point, at least, is probably accurate. I am writing characters who in theory have life experiences that are very much Not Mine, which involves a lot of reading things from people who would know better than I do. It’s nerve-wracking, and the only thing I am bone-deep certain of is that I’ll fuck up and hopefully y’all will forgive me for fucking up when that happens. I’ll keep reading and refining and eventually maybe it’ll be okay. Hopefully, anyway.

7. I went to Ireland and guys, Ireland is bullshit. I am offended by its gorgeous cliff-sides and open grasslands and heart-rending beauty. The immense friendliness of the people I met and the fact that you can’t sit in a pub without hearing some dude play a jaunty reel on a tin whistle or accordion or something is a personal insult. I was Arthur Dent angrily demanding to know why this bloody fish is so good the whole time.

I cultivated an immense drinking habit while there. I was also approached by a random German tourist who somehow clocked that I could speak German and we shouted about socialism for an hour auf Deutsch. I met some woman from Louisiana and we ended up having drinks a couple nights in a row to talk about traveling in general and Germany in particular, because her ex-husband is German. There were some Swedish retirees who were both very pleased by their country’s social safety net and also depressingly sour about the fact that refugees got cheap dental care - we might have had some harsh words exchanged before more drinks helped smooth over our frank discussion of differing viewpoints. I had to explain American health care to some people from the UK who were surprisingly gung-ho about the idea of privatized medicine until they talked to me (one of them talked about how the UK used to be an Empire and could be again in such a way that made me want to throw things. We did not talk for very long because I couldn’t fuckin’ handle it). These were strangers that I willingly engaged, because I was having an adventure, and I guarantee none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been going to the gym and committed to the idea of proving the voice in my head that tells me I’m an awkward mess that nobody would ever want to talk to in their life wrong (also, let’s be honest, if I hadn’t had several pints of cider at the time). 

By the end of the trip if I heard one more pub singer’s version of Whisky in the Jar though, that I was gonna produce my pistol and fucking shoot myself in the head.

Go to Ireland if you can. If you live there, fuck you how dare you live somewhere that rad.

8. I didn’t have an eighth thing but I’m committed to this “each thing is numbered” bit which means that even the end of this thing has to follow the trope. This is the end of the post where I say “okay bye I’ll be back the next time I get the urge to throw a bunch of highly unpolished ideas out.” 

[resumeuncle]

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Topic will cover the following points-:

What is a letter of recommendation?

Before writing a recommendation letter

What to do if you’re not able to give a positive recommendation

Format of recommendation letter

What to coverExample

What is a Letter of Recommendation?

A letter of recommendation is a document that may be required for a student(to get admission to a school or college), co-worker, home purchase, internship, voluntary opportunity. Clients can write these letters, vendors,  business colleagues, neighbors. And other people or recommenders who know the potential of a job candidate.

Organizations sometimes, ask for two or three recommendation letters to acquire better knowledge about the concerned candidate to get the best fit for the company. Generally, a recommendation letter is composed with the applicant’s skills and abilities. And how the recommender knows him and why he is recommending him.

Know here about Hard skills vs Soft skills.

Before writing a Recommendation letter-

Before accepting a request for a recommendation letter, you must ask some questions from yourself-

Do you know the applicant personally or through observation?

Do you know the relevant experience and skills of a candidate?

Are you able to add some specific examples?

Can you give productive feedback about that applicant?

Above mentioned points will clear you whether you can give a quality recommendation or not.

How to write a letter of recommendation

What to do if you are not able to give positive recommendation-

You may be approached by someone for a recommendation letter, but you feel that you can’t give a positive response to him because you may not be much familiar with that person or with his performance.

In this case, instead of giving useless recommendations, you must let him know respectfully that you are unable to fulfill the request so that the applicant can find an alternative solution for himself.

Format of a recommendation letter

A personal reference letter must include information on who you are, your connection with an applicant. Why you are recommending him, and the specific skills or capabilities that he has that you would demonstrate with prolific examples. Review the following template to get ideas on what to write and how to write.

Salutation

You need not include any salutation if you’re writing any general letter, writing “To whom it may concern” would be great for this type of letter. But, you must include a salutation(such as Dear Mrs.  Singh, Dear Mr. Jones, etc.) for a character reference letter.

Body paragraph 1

The first paragraph generally contains information about how you know the recommending person and why you are qualified to write a recommendation for him.

Body paragraph 2

The second paragraph contains private information of a person whom you are writing about, such as why the candidate is qualified. What he can contribute,  his skills or qualities. And why you are writing a reference letter for him. You should include specific examples and use more than one paragraph if necessary.

Summary

A brief summary would include why you are recommending the person. You could add words like  “highly recommend” or “recommend without reservation” to make your letter more attractive.

Conclusion

This section contains an offer for further information, including a phone number, email address, either within the paragraph or includes these in the return address section of your letter. You can also write these in your email signature.

Sincerely/yours truly,

Your name

Title

Other than these aspects, as it is a formal business document so it must be printed on the letterhead of your current firm with the current date and signed by you. The standard business font must be used and the margins should be 1 inch at the sides and the bottom.

What to cover

Your connection with the person: It includes briefly mentioning what capacities you know the person has along with the years he worked with you.

Skills and strengths of a candidate: State some productive skills and capabilities you know about that person, such as positive attitude, multitasking, etc.

Focusing the job description: Job description must match the position a person is applying for. It would be more exceptional if you are using the same language as that in the job description.

Follow a business letter outlay: Use the official business letter format for your recommendation letter. You might consider adding a recommendation email in the essence instead of a message.

Positive attitude towards applicant: Mention your positive attitude for recommending the person, including some strong words such as “I recommend this person without reservation”.

Share your contact information: It is the way an employer can contact you for any further query. This includes your contact number, email address, etc.

Mind some submission guidelines:  make your letter be in a required format (for instance, PDF, physical letter, etc.) and make sure you have submitted it before the deadlines.

How to write a letter of recommendation example:

There can be many formats of recommendation letters. Following is an example of what a completed recommendation letter may look like for a job applicant.

To Whom it May Concern:

It would be a great pleasure for me to highly recommend Smith Jones for a position as a Technical Assistant for Infosys internationals.

I am Danny Cordial, a Data Analyst at Softech limited. I have 10 years of experience working as a client services specialist and Data management. And have seen many young professionals keep on coming and going. Smith Jones is one individual I have worked with who uniquely stands out.

During our time together, Smith showed great talents in technical applications, such as java, R coding, Python. And several other data visualization tools. When we first met, I was immediately impressed with Smith and the technical skills she had on day one. But during the time worked together, her understanding of technical terms has proved an asset for the company.

My first experience

My first experience with Smith’s adaptability came not long after she was hired. Last year, we had one client who sent data in Linux that needed extensive cleanup.

At that time, Smith’s experience with Linux was limited, but she worked extra hours to learn how to properly clean up data in Linux through the use of commands. Within a short period, the client’s data was properly cleaned for further visualization. Finally, she got umpteen praise from the Client.

It’s not just her technical skills that impress me. However,  Smith has an amazingly positive attitude and eagerness to stick tightly to deadlines. Her doing attitude in any situation and team-building skills were also significant. And valued not just by myself but by her colleague.

I am absolutely confident that Smith would be a great fit for your Company. She has some specific skills and experiences you’re looking for in an application that will become an asset from your company.

If you need more information in this regard, please do not hesitate to contact me at 595-167-4097. Or by email at ronitam@23snsness.com. I would be glad to further elaborate on my time working with her.

Sincerely,

Danny Cordial