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Comment by jstx1 | Hacker News Reader

You have a bright career as a LinkedIn influencer ahead of you.

Not trying to be snide to OP, but his/her anecdote does hit the typical Linkedin influencer plot beats which I find amusing:

  I literally hired a guy who was a part-time computer hobbyist but, a full time pool man.

  I told him "hey how would you like to spend 40 hours a week learning more about computers."

  Today he's working as a leader in his company's security group.

  He often thanks me for the job, and I always remind him "you did the work, all I did was give you the opportunity".

LOL I feel like they'd use even more line breaks than that.

>" You have a bright career as a LinkedIn influencer ahead of you. "

I am not sure exactly what you meant to say, but this came off as a bit snide (to me).

LinkedIn is full of completely farcical stories about recruiters who had the prescience to hire someone even though they were 30 seconds late for an interview or didn't wear a tie or hadn't graduated from an Ivy League school or some other such nonsense. And because of this HR drone's largesse, this person later did their job satisfactorily.

I honestly can't tell if the GP meant it in a snide way (like my example above) or as an honest compliment. It could be either, really.

What the person means here is that on Linkedin there are a lot of (usually staged) comments or videos of people that "saved the life of that person that had $X and nobody employed and (s)he is now the best $Y". These posts are highly shared and commented upon. I don't think the comment was mocking you really, it was just a funny parallel (hope I'm not wrong).

>"I don't think the comment was mocking you really"

I did not make the top-level comment.

definitely they weren't mocking you then!

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