If this isn't one of my favorite "insanely funny comics to remember for all the wrong reasons" artists (I shall remember my whole life your own personal take on the iPhone - in some parts of this wide world, your comic would be illegal). I am so happy to see that you are alive and kicking and I hope life is treating you the way you want to be treated (and Good Lord, please DO tell ME how you landed a job at a competitive tech firm - I want to have a job one day too, geez).
Well, I feel that the world-situation at the moment is paying in my advantage. The fact I have the energy to think of being creative again, that I have the energy to come back somewhere where I like being, is a proof the ugly, chicken who plucked its feathers out is growing them again. It is just horrible and frightening that for that I needed a pandemic and the right to stay at home for long days without ever going out. I am not intensely happy, but I am happier on here than I am back outside.
But that is exactly the thing!
Company websites, and even employee-centered websites (you know, websites where employees of a company rate their employers and discuss the pros and cons of the position they hold at their company) seem to give very generic advice. They do not give you an exact picture of what the "personality" of a company is, what the expectations, as you so well put it, are. It is obvious that nowadays, it is more about the package than about the content, or rather it is about how your choice of words, your facial expressions, the way you sit concord with your aptitudes. And whether said aptitudes and attitude concord with the needs of the company.
Here in Canada, the demands are so vague, everything is so nebulous that finding a job outside of the service industry truly, strongly smells of nepotism. I remember a very good friend saying:
"Whom do I have to f* to get a job?!"
You might think he was joking. There was of course a joking tone attached to it. But we did all, at some point wonder how far we were willing to go to land that job.
"Make contacts! Contacts is what is most important! Keep in touch with your contacts!"
Back in the country I came from, getting a job because you knew someone was called "veza" and it was not something you wanted to brag about.
In my case, I am now in a field where I should get a job if I don't mess up my choice of specialization. I want to get into a very in-demand specialization which has very little applications every year. The thing is, I need to get through the two of clerkship before I can apply and that might proof a bit taxing on me. This being said, had I been able to get a job in chemical engineering, I would have most probably never considered going into another field.
Now on another note, something that made me very happy today and that I want to share with the world:
Micro-documentaries on YouTube called "True Facts" by Zefrank1.
Today, I discovered the Pikachu Slug.
He breaths through his butthole!!!
I think the big difference between them and you is that you are honest with yourself and unfazed by criticisms or people judging you. They may be missing on one or more of these aspects.
I totally can get that some people are into non-standard relationships and yet are looking for something deeper within these non-standard relationships, as it's absolutely not incompatible. But I'd expect them to be honest about what they want, and not berate other for having different needs.
I feel there might be something else. The key word here is relationship. We must agree that open-relationships, polyamory, etc. are not the norm. People who might wish to start one such relationship might find it very difficult to come across a potential partner who would be willing to sit down and consider the possibility of other people being intimately involved with one's partner (and what that implies from an emotional point of view, etc.)
So, they come across your profile. What they see is not that you are looking for sex, but rather that you would be openly to consider a non-traditional relationship pattern. They might even completely shut off their brains when they read that part and completely forget that you are in it for the carnal satisfaction. Of course, having gone through so much trouble themselves to find one such partner, they believe that you must have been in the same situation. Just a touch of their magic fan would transform you into a stable-relationship-oriented partner. Which is not the case.
Mind you, that doesn't help you with the fact that these people annoy the sh*t out of you.
Another thing might honestly be that they are low-key negging you. If they clearly see that you are in it for the satisfaction of your physical desires and needs and yet start with messages such as the one you showed us, they might be trying to get a reaction out of you, to demean you and lower your self-esteem so that you would accept them, even if they were not attractive to you.
Something along the lines of: "Look at you, you filthy wh*re. You should be so flattered someone as good, as honest and pure as I, would ever want to approach my genitalia to your sinner's body. Now satisfy my needs."
Just that they choice the worst person to neg they could have picked in this big ocean of free fish that is the internet.
Well. I should admit, it sounds reasonable. I didn't think about it from this point of view before. Thank you.
Don't make me laugh so hard! Some students still live in my dormitory and want to sleep
P.S. I'll answer to your post about the work tomorrow. I have things to say, but it's late there, my brain works not as good now, as during the day.
I hate political correctness around these issues, too (and PC in general).
Extremely counterproductive, deepens the problem.
I don't, however, have any uneasiness around people who I expect to have a problem with my lifestyle. I've always been around many different cultures, so a lot of potential clashes. Although I can take a guess on what will be most difficult to accept of me depending on one specific person's culture, I found out that when it comes to people that have the potential to become friends or at least good acquaintances or colleagues... culture does not matter much. I have a lot of friends that are baffled by my lifestyle and I'm also baffled by theirs. It's fine to me.
It okay to do good in small way only. Nobody asking you to commit entire life to helping people. Might actually be counterproductive. It depend on how you measure it, of course, but mebbe you do more good in long run by living best and most productive life. Problems of world belong to everybody, not just to one person.
As for other thing, what you mean by "serious relationship"? It mean different thing for different people. That is probably the issue.
Why I'm a monster because I don't help those homeless people and so on? Why I even should? I'm not a charity center, I'm trying to live for 300$ per month and with this so awesomely productive economic and this idiotry with closing businesses because of that idiotic quarantine it could be easily 150$ after month or two or even less. I'm not considering myself a monster because of that. And yes, I'm always saying this openly, I don't care about those homeless, it's their problem not mine, I have many problems on my own.