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Marta
100 Words 100 Days
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1 min readOct 1, 2020

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I did what they did in films: drew a circle around the ad that interested me, with a highlighter.

To find a job you’d search in a printed newspaper. You’d read through a long alphabetical list of descriptions shorter than tweets, written using some adult code.

aaaaa Brick layer for sml team in N of town. prm hvf gbl dmt

It took me a while to understand that many would start with a string of a’s to put them higher on the list. I thought it meant to indicate shouting, to signal how desperate they are to hire.

aaaaaaaaaaa help2deal w/puberty NOW hpfully not prm position

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Marta
100 Words 100 Days

📈 Aspiring data scientist. Rationality fan. EA. Vegan. Working to improve global mental health at MindEase.io