11 Funny Facts about Job Hunting

1. Your College degree will not help you get a job in your field, you're better use it for a fire fuel on chilly nights, it's will be more useful.

2. Good job are already give to someone else, without opportunity for people to apply.

3. Same change for everyone don't exist.

4. 80% of available jobs are never advertised.

5. You need a car to get some job, and you need a job to get a car.

6. The average number of people who apply for any given job: 118. Twenty-percent of those applicants get an interview.

7. Entry Level now want 3-4 years of experiences.

8. Your Father name and your family is more important than your education and experience in job interview.

9. You'll turn down for much of the job you go in interview, because in reality they don't have any job available.

10. And finally you need experiences to get experience.

If you give up after that :

Fashion Feminism 1, “Good Girl” Insecurities 0

This is an old story about my adventures in learning how to dress and feel like a grown woman and not a perpetual child, not really related to the topic of this blog: dyslexia. And I wanted to share it.

I wore my lacy little crop top out today- a tee shirt that is literally just woven lace and nothing else, thus it’s see-through- because it’s 99° out here. No way am I wearing an actual shirt. But I struggle with feeling comfortable in my top not only for body image reasons, but for etiquette reasons as well. I feel cute, but at the same time I worry that older members of the community will be offended by the fact that you can see my skin and my black bandeau, it’s all on display. 

So I’m leaving my home to go see my Taita with some lemonade (because again, it is damn hot, and I wanna make little ice-cube lemonade pop in my mouth and I'm from Batroun) when I arrived my Taita a woman in her 60’s approaches and touches me on the shoulder. Did I drop something? Is my skirt up in the back? Is she going to scold me for showing my waist and letting my bra straps go uncovered?

And she smiles this big smile at me and says “Dear, that shirt is so cute!”

"Thank you!" I’m so relieved, "It was only five dollars, I think!"

"Well it’s lovely," she says, "don’t tell anyone that price! Pretend it cost more than it did!"

We talk and laugh. “Well,” I say, “It’s just too hot to wear anything more.”

"We should all walk around in bikinis," she says.

Made my damn day. :)

This is not my Taita just a pic like that

[Lebanon] Language Barriers Prevent Syrian Children from Attending School

"I want them to go to school, but it’s so far away. I can’t afford the cost of transport. It’s also difficult because here they speak French or English at school. My children won’t understand anything", explained Dima’s sister.


A critical problem facing Syrian children in Lebanon is that the education system uses French or English as the language of instruction, with Arabic only reserved for language courses and sometimes history lessons. Conversely, in Syria the education system is entirely in Arabic.


A rapid needs assessment carried out by the UN children’s fund in Lebanon (UNICEF) and Save the Children also cited language barriers as the principal obstacle for Syrians in Lebanon. The report found that most Syrians would like their children to learn either French or English as they see it as a “chance for upward mobility”.

In addition, the Lebanese education system is unable to cope with the influx of Syrians across the border. More than 160,000 Syrians are officially registered with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in Lebanon and a further 71,358 are awaiting registration. This number is increasing rapidly as up to 3,000 Syrians are crossing the borders daily to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq.

Lebanon in the top 10 country for the quality of is education

Lebanon have one of the best education systems in Math and Science in the World like The Economic Forum’s 2013 Global Information said so (here).

And when  Senior Fellow Hafez Ghanem in this new podcast about learning in the Arab world says : "That more than half of Arab children are not learning". 

We are one of the most educated country in the Middle East with 44% of University Graduated students.

This is something we must be proud about.

Fact about Dyslexia: You can be dyslexic in one language but not another

So it turns out you can be dyslexic in one language but not another, depending on the kind of linguistic processing problem you have. For example, if you have trouble with phonemes, if can be hard to learn alphabetic writing systems like English, but easier to learn logo-graphic writing systems like Chinese. China has dyslexic people obvs, but they seem to have different stuff going on in their brain than English dyslexic people. Huh.

Body Language Secrets Everyone Must Know

 

 

Drop The But

I listen to everyone include myself, and realized that we tend to use the word but several times a days.

You’ll use the word to invalidate what you just said, as in: You did a great job, but… Or you’ll use the word to defend your actions, as in: I would have done that, but…

To defend yourself, (young children can use the word but like more than 5 times days just for this case).

When they do something wrong, they always try to defend themselves using the word ''but''. And they use this word as much as they can, like they can excuse anything with it.

For example let take a conversation with a kids that break a vase, and let call this kids Bod: Bod did you drop the vase on the floor? ''Yes, but, but, but, but, but, but,......'' Bod would say and instantly absolve himself of any responsibility.

It never their fault.

He never wanted to said I'm sorry.

He just use the word ''But'' to put the responsibility on someone else.

We need to take responsibility for our actions and stop using the word but to defend yourself.

Let imagine now the same situation with two adult in a car accident. One will said : ''yes the light was red but you were driving so fast'' and the other ''yes but you were passing on the red light''.

Stop using but to defend yourself and just take responsibility for your actions and said instead: ''I'm sorry, I past on the red light.'' or ''I'm sorry also I was driving to fast.''

But are also use to invalidate what you just said

 

When people say the word "but" after a sentence it's very demeaning and it's almost as if they recognize your statement and then throw it aside just as quickly.

For example, adding but after praise makes the praise feel less significant.

"You did great in the recital but next time try to speed up your tempo"

In order to reinforce the positivity and effort I would instead say:

" You did great in the recital. How about we try to work on speeding up your tempo and see what happens?"

When one, "drops the but" they are actually taking the time to recognize and hear what someone is saying which in turn makes the other person feel good. Even if they don't agree with that person, "dropping the but" still makes the person feel as if they have been genuinely heard.

Drop the But

You can start using the word “and” because the word “but” nullifies what you just said. e.g. “I did ten things on my to-do list, but I didn’t do the remaining five things”. Instead you could say: “I did ten things and I have five more to go. ”

So the next time you find yourself saying “but” pull out your forefinger and thumb.

Reach for your check, and tighten into a pinch. It's will help remember to stop using the word ''BUT''.

It's one of the best way to make your life a life without BUT.