Do you have to turn off looking for a job on LinkedIn?

 

 

 

I don’t think it is fair to be openly looking for a job while you are working for a company and it might not be “healthy” to your current position. This is my personal point of view and I would not be very happy with an employee that was so obviously looking for another job.

Why do people like to hurt others?

 

 

 

I found that it is a constant in life, we live in chains of “misery compensation”. Someone with some kind of power over someone else (emotional, in the workplace, etc) says something that is only intended to hurt, probably because someone else told that person something to hurt. Person B will have to compensate for that misery and will do the same on person C, and it goes on and on.

 

 

 

 

Most people don’t see this, they just feel hurt and miserable and need to carry on with the cycle. I decided some years ago that I would never again in my life be hurt by words or actions , specially words, that are meant just to hurt. It is a decision, you can tell me whatever you want to hurt me be you will not be able because I do not give you that power, I see it as a gift I choose not to accept. You have no idea how this decision changed my life; I suffered a lot until I reached the point I said to myself “enough!”. I never did that to people but people did it to me but now no longer.

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Have we become a society of followers?

 

Not me! I follow two friends on Twitter because I like them and that is all about following other people if you do not count the automatic following that LinkedIn sets for connections sharing the same groups. Otherwise I have my own life and don’t need followers or to follow anyone!

In the long run do you choose Objectivity or Intuition?

 

Objectivity I use to study the issue, Intuition I use to take a decision

 

 

each time I took a decision against my intuition based on rationales I took a bad one.

What helped you choose a career?

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I wanted to be an Opera singer and studied the piano and “bel canto” for many years. The voice was not a 1^st rate one so I decided to be an attorney because I loved it too. Later I decided to be a pharmaceutical science person because I had to be one to run the family company (Portuguese rules). I learned many languages since I as a child. Nothing but my own wish helped me chose my career. Now I can also do technical translations in a niche market – I always did it coupled with my other professions now I do it as one of my main professions.

Are you a fast or a slow thinker?

 

 

I think faster than slower but that also depends on what I am thinking about, if it is about taking a decision that must be taken in short time I will think faster, if it is about something that does not need immediate action I probably think slower; it also depends on my mood if I am sleepy, etc.