ULPT: Request. What industry would be the easiest to break into with a good fake resume.

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Kraligor@reddit

The real answer is, there is no job that pays well that you need no experience for. Everybody saying sales, sure, but without contacts you'll still start at the very bottom. And unless you're one of the top .001% natural super talents, you'll not be going to make great money any time soon.

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classless_classic@reddit

I’ve seen lot of high level jobs filled by under qualified candidates lately.

Secretary of Defense.

Head of Medicare and Medicaid

POTUS

Director of the FBI.

Director of National Intelligence

FDA Chief

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Jahbahdiah@reddit

Even on this sub there has to be a snide quirky lil lefty loonie like you, god damn

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classless_classic@reddit

Please tell me how these people were not under qualified

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moto0392@reddit

The only person Trump hired who was fully qualified was Stormy Daniels!

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classless_classic@reddit

Now that’s funny.

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Randy-Randallmann@reddit

Just apply saying “i am particularly not qualified for this job, would you like me to do it?”

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ZadigRim@reddit

I'd give this 100 more upvotes if I could. The amount of high level gov jobs going to those whose only answer is "yes" is beyond belief. "It's going to happen anyway, just let it happen!"

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flakzpyro@reddit

Sales!

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call0w@reddit

Sell me this pen.

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GardeniaInMyHair@reddit

Leanne Morgan did the best version of this with a piece of jewelry on Amy Poehler’s podcast.

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NekoNoNakuKoro@reddit

I can do that but first can I have your autograph?

Oh, you need a pen? That'll be $5.

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MrPickles196@reddit

Why do you want to buy that pen?

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Dick_Lazer@reddit

Great! We'll get back to you.

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verbalddos@reddit

::Grabs pen and walks out of the room::

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weirdoone@reddit

Good I hated that pen and didn't like the dude anyway

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Sea_Organization4482@reddit

As long as you can fake your way through dealing with objections and don’t mind cold calls. Sales deserves you.

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flakzpyro@reddit

I faked my resume at 19. Convinced GM I could sell.

Long story short, I really could sell haha. It was just bullshitting customers. Luckily I was young at the time and indulged in a lot of different things. So I can relate to customers with sports, politics, hobbies etc.

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Shivin302@reddit

Selling to your interviewer is all the experience you need to break into sales

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ThumpAndSplash@reddit

Well, it seems like all of the shittiest people get into real estate, so there must be a really low bar to entry there.

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No_Pattern_7600@reddit

Most people in real estate don't make any money. That's the part they don't tell you.

To qualify to take the test, you have to have significant college credits or a degree. If not, there are several required courses you will need to take first before taking the final test for your license.

After you pass the test, you will still have to hustle for possibly several months before seeing any commissions paid.

Residential real estate definitely follows the 80/20 rule. 80% of real estate agents don't make any money. In some areas, 95% of the agents don't make any money. Plus, it's insanely competitive and people will backstab and steal your contacts if they can get away with it.

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MoltenCorgi@reddit

The requirements vary by state, and I’d say yours is uncharacteristically harder than most. There is no college requisite in my state. Anyone with a pulse that can sit thru an online class and take a very simple test can get licensed. I got my license in my early 20’s, and never even cracked the book open. I just paid attention in class. I was the second person to hand in my test when I took the state exam only because I finished so fast I second guessed myself and assumed I forgot a part until someone else turned theirs in. I went outside and the other person was like “did you give up too?” She failed. I got a 99%. Had never bought a house at that point and knew nothing about the practicality of what you actually do for the job. That’s not what they test for. You just need to know the rules and regulations.

It seriously floored me when I got a job and others told me they had to take that test 3+ times to pass. I could have taken it after my first week of class and gotten at least an 80% just by making a smart guess. It was all multiple choice and half the answers were so obviously wrong they could be immediately disqualified and you had a good chance of narrowing it down to the final answer with common sense.

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adudeguyman@reddit

Car sales

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MET1@reddit

Ah, yes. The salesperson when I bought a car as I was looking at the instrument panel and didn't see the parking brake light: "oh, met1, not all cars need to have parking brake lights". Yes, no qualifications for that job.

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chisel1@reddit

This made me laugh 😂😂😂😂

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theamazonswordsman@reddit

Doesn't even need a GED. Just pass a licensing exam you take as many times as you want.

There's reason every dumbass you remember from high school takes a crack at it and fails at some point.

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heraclitus33@reddit

All the dumb cute hs girls are in real-estate

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tjdux@reddit

OP said fake his way in, this is just doing it by the books lol.

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namerankserial@reddit

It's because real estate has an incredibly low barrier of entry. You don't need to fake anything. You don't need any prerequisites, you just need to pony up for a three week course. But making money as a real estate agent is another story. There is a lot of competition. Because of the incredibly low barrier of entry.

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One-Income3093@reddit

Real Estate requires connections or a huge advertising budget if you want any chance of listing high value homes.

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Fhloston-Paradisio@reddit

Even shitty houses in my area are 500k. 2-3% of that isn't bad, even if you only close 1 deal a month

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Princess_Moon_Butt@reddit

The problem is getting people to call you specifically. It's not like you get a lot of repeat customers as a real estate agent, and if you're unskilled, you don't get recommended by your clients to their friends, family, and so on.

You basically have to be part of a google-able agency, or throw your business card into a fishbowl and hope that some inexperienced couple happens to call your number instead of reaching for one of the dozens of other business cards that have been thrown at them or emailed to them once they put their names down in an open-house guestbook.

And that's where the marketing budget comes in. Business cards, pens, coozies, keychains, flashlights, multitools, magnets, billboards, SEO, local fliers, whatever else. If you want people to see your name, you have to put your name in a lot of visible places.

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One-Income3093@reddit

Even if the houses are “shitty” by local standards, anyone expecting to receive $500k for the sale is going to seek out an agent with a good reputation or good advertising.

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UntestedMethod@reddit

Which is why the real scummy sales person is wise to find themselves a niche as a plump little bottom feeder preying on the desperate and naive.

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LaserBeamsCattleProd@reddit

Closing a deal a month is a huge deal. It rarely works out like that. It's inconsistent and there are dry spells.

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Cool-Egg-9882@reddit

Beautifully said!

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RachelConnollyjr@reddit

You can be a felon😀...seriously as long as the felony was not Financial in nature...but Rape and murder are Okay.

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No-Concern-8832@reddit

Become a politician. Qualifications not required. Heck, a working brain is not required. /S

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Cuneus-Maximus@reddit

Why the /s ? It's literally not.

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Shivin302@reddit

Really low bar for morals, ethics, and intelligence, but high bar for generational wealth

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City-Negative@reddit

Retail. Lie and say you were a manager at a now defunct business, like Blockbuster or Future Shop (but more recent, obviously) there is no HR department they can call to follow up on references. Put a trusted friend as a character reference so they can go on about what an amazing co-worker you were.

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Wild-Spare4672@reddit

vandalay industries

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scubajay2001@reddit

That only works for architects

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classless_classic@reddit

gif

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TacoCalzone@reddit

Why the fuck would anyone want to get into retail management? A shit job with shit hours, shit bosses, and shit customers.

That’s the kind of job you lie to get out of, not to get into.

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Princess_Moon_Butt@reddit

Because for a lot of businesses, that's the level that they start offering health and retirement benefits.

Plus, you can use it as a springboard. Lots of retail places will sponsor your forklift certification after you're there for a while, and while forklift operator pay is pretty mediocre, it's usually stable full-time work with access to benefits. You could use the office skills to pivot to an office manager for something more corporate/lower-stress, or maybe train towards a warehouse logistics role for something a bit more skilled.

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c0mptar2000@reddit

seriously. Retail management is one area where the management gig is sometimes even worse than the lower level positions due to the salaried hours and unpaid overtime.

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onmy40@reddit

Sacrifice like 2 years of bullshit hours ans made you can make bank. Assistant store managers at a home depot i worked at were making 100k before bonus but they had to "work" 12 hour shifts

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Darkm1tch69@reddit

Hey man, if you fake your way into being a district or regional manager, you can get a car and a big salary along with it.

Better go hard on ChatGPT, because you’ll be expected to know a decent amount about business and finance, though.

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Sunnysarabee@reddit

Assistant to the regional manager

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UntestedMethod@reddit

Yeah but it's probably one of the best jobs if you really enjoy low stakes power tripping.

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Glorwyn@reddit

If you're unemployed or working as something like a shelf stocker, it is much better.

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maslowk@reddit

The pay is definitely better as a manager than a stocker but not sure if I'd say it's necesarily worth it IMO. At least where I work, the regular team leads have schedules that flip flop every other week (this week you're days, next you're overnights, now you're half days half midshift, etc). Department managers get decent salaries from what I hear but you're effectivsly on-call 24/7 and work 10+ hour shifts 5 days a week :/

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Fmorrison42@reddit

The same trick works for IT based jobs. Say you worked in xyz department for 5 years up til it was bought out and everyone was fired.

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Vericatov@reddit

I believe companies keep the prior companies records of employment. Would have to be a completely defunct company for this to work.

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One-Winged-Owl@reddit

This is hilarious cause I used to manage a blockbuster

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Darkm1tch69@reddit

😉

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ChanclasConHuevos@reddit

Hell yeah. I did something similar. Worked at Linens N Things for a whole week and walked out. After they went under, I padded the shit out of my resume with a department supervisor position I never held.

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RustBeltLab@reddit

Most realistic idea so far.

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Wild-Spare4672@reddit

Joe Biden and Kamala are complete morons. Ronald Reagan was the former two term governor of the largest and wealthiest state in the nation. He was then elected president of the United States and served two terms. Donald Trump earned billions of dollars in business and was elected president of the United States on ~three~ two separate occasions. What have you accomplished in your life, Chief?

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UnethicalLifeProTips-ModTeam@reddit

Your post or comment was removed for violating rule 12: No politics.

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Nooms88@reddit

100% sales, the beauty of it is, if you can sell the lies, you're actually qualified

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Bitter-Pea-8323@reddit

Bump for sales because really the easiest industry to fake your way into is one you already possess the core skills for.

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NoisePollutioner@reddit

Echoing this, because lying is important in sales, so if you lie to get there, it proves you'll be good at it.

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GuestStarr@reddit

They might even expect it..

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iruber1337@reddit

Most of the sales people are in fact doing bumps

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ButtercreamGangster@reddit

Adderall and opiates are the magical deal closers since the early 2000s. Coke will keep you going babbling but dope and speed makes you interesting and insightful.

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budsonguy@reddit

It’s not even the Honda Days yet

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DookieShoez@reddit

They doing bumps, giving fist bumps, bumpin’ each other off, hell one guy was literally covered in bumps.

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Gandalf-and-Frodo@reddit

Just have no issue lying all the time and talking for 8 hours a day and there's a good chance you'll be a good salesperson.

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tmeinke68@reddit

Good sales people listen more than they talk.

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Several-Fan2339@reddit

Better profits to be made running for office if you have those skillz.

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bubbleteabob@reddit

My cousin does this. He hasn’t, in his life, had a job he was qualified for but has been gainfully employed in sales jobs for years. He just fakes a resume that matches the job listing and then lies through any questions that arise. He gets fired every now and again, but I don’t think it has ever actually been because they catch on he is unqualified.

*he does a lot of bad things ON TOP of lying lot.

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orlgamecock@reddit

Selling lies does not make a good sales person. That is how you get no repeat business and have to constantly churn, hustle, and be miserable to keep making money.

A good sales person delivers on promises and lives of repeat business, constantly finding new customers is unsustainable.

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tinmoreno@reddit

This guy sales

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OdinMartok@reddit

I bet you’re good at sales because I almost believed you believed that

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flatulexcelent@reddit

SOLD!

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No_Pattern_7600@reddit

The easiest entry to sales is working for a large name brand car dealership.

No experience required. They will pay you while you're training, and allow you to take a draw on future earnings once you start working.

They won't tell you beforehand, but the money is in used cars. Used car salespeople make 2X - 3x more than new car salespeople do. It's much easier to hide the value in a used car than in a new car.

Making money in sales is all about putting in the time and effort. If you look at the people who are making the most money you'll see they're also usually putting in the most hours and thought into their job.

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JohnSextro@reddit

Yes, however you’ll also need to BS a book of business. For high-end sales jobs that IS your resume.

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atlantiscrooks@reddit

Another bump for this. You can learn it all on the fly, although of course the more you already know about the thing the better. But you can fake it until you make it, as they say, but try for something you've got some experience in.

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pighalf@reddit

Sanitation

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Princess_Moon_Butt@reddit

Tangentially related, but every wastewater treatment plant near me is practically begging for employees right now. Lots of operator roles are $25-$30/hr starting, with health and retirement options, and are only asking for a high school diploma and 'mechanical aptitude', which I'm sure anyone can pretend to have.

Not really an ULPT, just... kind of general advice. A lot of them seem to be looking for wonky shifts (12 hours every other day, 2nd/3rd shift, or some weird combination) but plenty are looking for regular weekday 7a-4p roles.

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paddjo95@reddit

I've tried to get on with a couple waste water treatment plants in a couple states. One had a single position that got 1,000 applications and the other one just never got back to me at all.

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Lobotomy82937465@reddit

esp the sales side of things, esp in areas like nyc. hell even the admin side, big $ if you lie well enough

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Key-Candle8141@reddit

Medicine! Doctors dont know shit and are just guessing using big words... you can do it to with the help of AI and work on saying big weird words

Good luck!

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Squanchy2112@reddit

Restaurant IT, the shit I deal with in restaurants with networking from their "IT" people is horrendous.

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Big_Boat69420@reddit

Automotive service advisor

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I_Be_Strokin_it@reddit

I remember this from an episode of "I Almost Got Away With It""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_(Almost)_Got_Away_with_It

Fred Brito is a master conman. As a young man, he impersonates a senior Marine officer, lives off a series of rich lovers (of both sexes), and embezzles $1,000 from his job at a bank. After serving prison time for credit card fraud in both Canada and the United States, Brito cons his way into a series of top white collar positions, including lawyer, CEO, psychiatrist, executive director, and serving on the planning commission for the city of Lancaster, California. While in this position, he is exposed as a fraud and spends a year in prison for parole violations. Once free, Brito embezzles money from a law firm where he is posing as an attorney and flees to Mexico, where he cons his way into the priesthood. Brito serves as a priest in Mexico, Yuma, and Phoenix before being discovered and captured. He serves 18 months for the embezzlement from the law firm.

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TheRealGordonShumway@reddit

Law enforcement

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hypothetical_zombie@reddit

Come to Las Vegas, go into the hospitality industry. Sales, management, VIP services, whatever.

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BooksIsPower@reddit

I know a sommelier who worked in great restaurants with a secret…

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Peaches102179@reddit

Sales

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ormpling@reddit

Contract based fieldwork doing CRM (cultural resource management) archaeology. Started at $16/h and now around $35/h after a few years. Entirely field-learned profession if you can fake your Anthropology degree or previous field school experience. Might have to make conversation about it, but the idea is to absorb survey and excavation methodology, documenting encounters with historic artifacts. The deeper you go, the more you learn about geography, soil science, geology, the biology and interaction of animals with the world and human beings. All major cities have companies based out of there to do this environmental compliance work ahead of construction projects.

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americannightmom@reddit

how in the world would I even find something like this to lie about? sounds amazing.

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ormpling@reddit

Shovelbums.com. this is one of two surviving archaeo job boards. There is an industry-wide slump at the moment, much federal funding for wind farms, solar farms, and USNF projects has been yoinked and everybody is scrambling to find work now.

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americannightmom@reddit

Wow, thanks for the info. Super interesting!

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ormpling@reddit

Yep. It is a cool job, especially in the US west. Hiking big country and finding a 10,000 point is incredibly gratifying work. Sometimes, we have native Americans on our team and we can share the moment of discovery with them.

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notproudortired@reddit

Hard on the knees and back, though.

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ormpling@reddit

Ooooooh yes lol

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LifeguardStatus7649@reddit

Bud, business consulting for the win. There's a ton of work to be done outside Deloitte.

Those guys were re-using work well before AI. It's even easier with AI

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OldFatMonica@reddit

I would like to do this and actually have the cred to do it. Can we chat??

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LifeguardStatus7649@reddit

I'd say start by getting a job as an economic development officer. It sounds fancy but it's actually just marketing - no credentials needed. Once there you'll see all kinds of opportunities for contract work

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UntestedMethod@reddit

Gotta have some connections for that though... Or else be extremely good at greasing yourself right up and schmoozing all the way up the arseholes of some execs.

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Economist-Pale@reddit

Porn

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BakedBrie1993@reddit

Bartending. Serving. I started in NYC.

I had only been a host in high school.

Everywhere asked for NYC experience, so I made some up from places I had eaten, but were closed. And put some experience from my old hometown.

Had my aunt with a different last name be one of my references.

I watched YouTube videos to learn how to serve casually and fine dining. I emulated them. First two jobs I shadowed, I was called out for being bad.

Had no shame lol Learned what I did wrong. Third job stuck. Did that for years making good money.

Then decided to learn to bartend. I already understood how a bar runs and had been watching. Didn't want to start as a bar back which is the classic way.

Watched videos again, practiced pouring at home with liquor bottles filled with water. Practiced shaking drinks and memorized the recipes to the top 20 basic cocktails. Got a slowish one day a week gig, got better, started shifting my work to bartending instead of serving.

Spent my entire 20s and beginning of 30s working no more than 3-4 days a week, $80k, could go on vacation whenever I wanted.

Hasn't been the same since quarantine, more competition for jobs done so many industries are floundering, but there is still money to be made!

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andym359@reddit

Corporate Audio Visual with or without a resume

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Wobbly5ausage@reddit

You’ll make it as far as a box pusher or maybe a stagehand before you get thrown into the deep end because you bullshitted your way into an op position in gear you’ve never heard of.

Pivot to being a camera op- it’s all old grumpy dudes and young blood is sorely needed

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Princess_Moon_Butt@reddit

A/V is one of the few fields where you can genuinely have zero certs or official education, but still be quite skilled/knowledgeable about the subject. But yeah, if you don't know what you're doing, it'll become real obvious real quick when you can't get the boss man's presentation to start on time, or accidentally broadcast your teams meeting to every TV in the building, or whatever. Your mistakes are very visible, often in very high-pressure situations.

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Wobbly5ausage@reddit

Easy litmus test- can you over under a cable?

Hard mode.. over under the cable in your non-dominate hand

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Princess_Moon_Butt@reddit

Over/under still trips me up, I'm always more partial to the TRU method... But that's more from my theater A/V days of having to drop cable and rope from up in the catwalk without having it tangle on the way down.

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Envy8372@reddit

It’s been a long time since I did any work in that industry but when I did it didn’t pay well as I remember. Has that changed?

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PaulieWalnuts2023@reddit

What is that? Does it make any money?

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ZadigRim@reddit

Likely. If you can make the AV equipment work consistently then the execs don't really care.

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procrasturb8n@reddit

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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InterviewAware1129@reddit

Sales or anything to do with social media.

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drone-on-and-on@reddit

politics (R)

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MoreRatzThanFatz@reddit

Put on your resume that you graduated from ITT Tech, you could probably get your foot in the door doing helpdesk

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Savet@reddit

Degrees from ITT can still be verified.

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UntestedMethod@reddit

Sure they can be verified, but honestly how many employees are taking the time to do that?

If they're feeling sus about you, they'll pick some other dipshit from their pile of applicants instead of going sniveling to some school trying to verify if you actually graduated from there.

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Savet@reddit

It depends on the employer. Generally, the background check company also verifies past employment and education. If you're going to deal with any sensitive data, they're going to verify your background. When I first started in tech, the entry level IT help desk role gave me access to things like credit card numbers, customer information, etc. If you're going to lie, at least lie well.

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UntestedMethod@reddit

If you're going to deal with any sensitive data, they're going to verify your background.

Not always. But like you said, it depends on the company.

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its_all_4_lulz@reddit

Industry is absolutely flooded with people out of work, it’s unlikely.

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hivemind_MVGC@reddit

Try reading Cybersecurity for Dummies.

If you can follow half of it, make a resume that says you have Security+ and CISSP certs.

99% of the "professionals" in that field just look at ACAS reports, make them into a spreadsheet, and forward them to the actual sysadmins/engineers to fix.

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Hmb556@reddit

I work in cyber and this might work at small companies but any major company is likely to perform a background check which includes certs that are extremely easy to verify. Most have a portal you just plug the cert number into and is publicly available so it's easy to catch you in a lie

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Princess_Moon_Butt@reddit

Yeah, the companies that are small enough for you to get away with this won't have multiple engineers for you to pawn the work onto, and the ones that are big enough to have that will catch you lying about your certs.

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gum11@reddit

still need a IT/related background

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FunnyBunny1312@reddit

Yeah isn't this the lying part?

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UntestedMethod@reddit

Pshhh... Just social engineer that part of the process.

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kage11217@reddit

Industrial Maintenance, I went to trade school and most of the guys that have been starting lately admit that the most mechanical experience they have is changing a tire on their car. If you can do that much, you can figure out how to do 80% Maintenance tasks with minimal training. Troubleshooting might take longer to figure out, but there is so much company specific processes that this can go under the radar as well.

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e1p1@reddit

Apparently, President. Or Republican House Member.

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hercdriver4665@reddit

Do yourself a favor and search “Will Guam flip over with too many people”

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jimmybilly100@reddit

Seems like a pretty silly joke

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rusmo@reddit

Just stand on a street corner parroting the Fox News talking points of the day and you’ll end up on a ballot at some point.

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Wild-Spare4672@reddit

Don’t insult poor biden.

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GoodGoodGoody@reddit

Democrat

Jimmy Carter, nuclear physics specialist, navy officer

Bill Clinton, Rhodes Scholar, accomplished lawyer

Hillary Clinton, accomplished lawyer

Kam Harris, accomplished lawyer

Republican

Ronald Reagan, B list actor

Donald Trump, ?

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onmy40@reddit

You left out the Governator

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Cuneus-Maximus@reddit

Donald Trump - failed casino owner

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gobeavs1@reddit

You should add: Rapist, pedo, liar, and racist this list.

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-ARCEN@reddit

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Schlawinuckel@reddit

How did no one mention CONMAN yet?!

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SilverMetalist@reddit

Didn't Biden place 76th / 85 students in law school and only practice for a year or 3 before becoming a senator?

Agree with the rest but don't think Biden accomplished a lot before entering public service.

Feel like Obama belongs on the list way more than biden

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GoodGoodGoody@reddit

You’re right. I muddled that up.

Obama, constitutional law professor

Biden, senator and VP

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joemammmmaaaaaa@reddit

GW Bush, sports team owner

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Cuneus-Maximus@reddit

GW Bush - Nepo baby

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joemammmmaaaaaa@reddit

I know another one who’s a nepo baby and draft dodger!

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Cuneus-Maximus@reddit

This one?

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potatojayy@reddit

Perhaps he was if biden changed his name to trumpstein lol

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Kind_Introduction542@reddit

Alright, let’s not get political

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killingthemsoftly88@reddit

Become president

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CrushYourBoy@reddit

There’s room to move as a fry cook.

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manbearpig073@reddit

I see you spongebob.

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CrushYourBoy@reddit

Older than that....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv7YvuCjZ0g

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qwertycandy@reddit

Applied psychology, like in HR

Personal finance advisor

Nutritionist

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-NotAHedgeFund-@reddit

Personal Financial Advisor would not work. The amount of industry knowledge and licensing needed would disqualify you immediately.

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qwertycandy@reddit

Sadly, that one is based on experience - I know several people that failed at everything they could, then went through some quick crash course by some financial institution, either bank or less reputable financial company, and now they are "personal financial advisors".

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-NotAHedgeFund-@reddit

Oh, well in that case I don’t necessarily think you’re answering the question that was asked. I agree that you can definitely get into an entry level “financial advisor” position with no experience. These positions are often magnets for burnouts. They don’t pay anything though. They are heavily commissioned and they will take anyone.

OP seems to be asking about somewhere they could go work and make good money by faking their experience and credentials. Joining what is effectively a MLM like Primerica or something doesn’t really qualify for that.

I guess my point is that if you attempt to interview for an actual advisor position that pays well and requires experience, it would be hilarious.

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qwertycandy@reddit

True, a high quality, actual advisor wouldn't work. But this lower quality "advisor" who is almost a rebranded sales position would work - ideally just show some spoofed experience with similar work at another company, to get your foot in the door, and then if the person has the right personality for sales, which OP seems to, then such a "personal finance advisor" could work and also pay well.

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Shaneaux@reddit

Imma say no on nutritionist unless you’re in a country that doesn’t think it’s a real thing. I live in California and you have to have a bachelors, and sometimes also a RDN. So unless you plan on faking college degrees too it’s prob a good idea to scratch that one.

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qwertycandy@reddit

I live in one of those countries where it's more murky, yes. But I also wonder how hard it would be to spoof american college records - I remember someone here describing the process.

Personally, I would never do that, but I wouldn't lie about job history either.

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Shaneaux@reddit

Honestly it’s probably not as hard as we would think. I know someone who either faked the degree or faked their paperwork to be a registered nurse. I think at the end of it people said she basically found someone with the same first name and age, got a fake id with that last name, provided with her real id, said she had gotten married and there was snafu with her maiden name/vs married name. I’m sure there was a lot more to it but….she got away with it for a while, a couple years. She had done some nursing school and had completed a CNA program so it wasn’t too much of a stretch since she had terminology and nursing skills covered.

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Gandalf-and-Frodo@reddit

Yeah that's the type of shit that'll land you in prison lol. Dont fuck with HIPPA or the medical field in general. They'll legally crucify you.

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discolored_rat_hat@reddit

The last three all hurt people by scamming them.

And the first hurts people who are getting screwed over by corporations.

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kungfungus@reddit

HR hurts employees while protecting the bosses

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qwertycandy@reddit

Honestly, I think that all of these cases where someone fakes a CV/degree can easily result in hurting someone. And on the other hand, neither has to hurt someone if you do your research properly, yet unofficially.

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discolored_rat_hat@reddit

neither has to hurt someone if you do your research properly, yet unofficially.

You're kinda right. Let's hope that OP is one of the good ones.

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Wholesomebob@reddit

Real estate

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MET1@reddit

Political campaign consultant. That's where the big money is.

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manbearpig073@reddit

Entry level political stuff pays nothing. sometimes literally nothing.

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manbearpig073@reddit

Everyone keeps saying sales, but you're asking what industry. Construction or home improvement sales. Audio Video contractor sales. Security system contractor sales. Sales for your local internet service providers. Left field... industrial laundry and dishwasher soap sales.

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Suitable-Name@reddit

Not really something you apply for, but life coach

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Ok-Pomegranate-5842@reddit

This actually takes certifications. Sure, you can market yourself as one but you won’t get legitimately high quality clients until you’re certified. Then you’re usually referred through word of mouth and through the networks you make while taking classes.

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gum11@reddit

isnt this like starting your own business? who hires life coaches and gives them a salary/benefits?

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ismokedwithyourmom@reddit

AI consultant! I know someone who does this, and they made up a bunch of bs credentials so companies pay them to type stuff into chatgpt. Every company wants to say they're 'ai driven' and invest in such things but they don't know what they need

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skipperseven@reddit

Apply for the job of head of security at the Louvre. I believe that they may be hiring and based on past performance, I don’t think you need any qualifications or experience in the field.

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FanOfFreshAir@reddit

Politics

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Gadgetman_1@reddit

Outsourced IT Support. Just practice an Indian accent, and remember the phrase 'Do the needful'.

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tree_beard_8675301@reddit

Wherever you end up, being kind and respectful to the people who work below or adjacent to you will go a LONG way to learning on the fly. These folks can teach you your whole job if they want to, or they can stonewall you and “accidentally” C.C. your boss when you mess up.

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False-Decision630@reddit

Fast food

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ZekeTarsim@reddit

Data Science. I work with data scientists every day, many of them don’t know anything. 😭

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ZadigRim@reddit

I'd like to know more about this as someone with some actual data science experience (and MS). What's missing here, industry or business domain knowledge? Or is it that they can't produce the models or interpret the results?

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ZekeTarsim@reddit

A lot of the data scientists I work with have some basic python (pyspark) knowledge and can follow instructions from their analytics lead.

Most of them are not bad, but they are unexceptional: constantly need help with basic tasks, don’t leverage tools like ai chat bots, aren’t creative thinkers, etc.

Regarding modeling, it’s like a few of them have a deep understanding, and the rest of them are just using templates and have no idea what to do when there are errors.

It’s a good career and I’m always amazed by how mediocre a lot of these people are.

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HodloBaggins@reddit

Did they get in by cheating or nepotism or what? I was under the impression getting a data science job is no easier than a dev job. And dev is brutal right now. Especially if high paying.

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ZekeTarsim@reddit

To be honest I don’t know the hiring criteria or how they are selected. I am in analytics support, so I am not a data scientists but I am adjacent: I train and offer ongoing support to the data science teams.

I don’t have the sense that they are total frauds with no experience, rather, they know just enough to qualify and give good interviews.

I am probably being a bit unfair to them, not really knowing their professional backgrounds, just my harsh observation of people who constantly need my help. 😄

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HodloBaggins@reddit

Got you. I’m desperately looking for a job and was surprised.

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ZekeTarsim@reddit

If you’re in one of the major cities (Chicago, NYC, Boston, etc) dm me, I can give you my company info. Always hiring (15000+ employee corp)

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HodloBaggins@reddit

I’m in Montreal Canada lmfao :(((

Although would be open to remote work if yall interested in saving and hiring a maple syrup chugger

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ZekeTarsim@reddit

We don’t have a Montreal office but we are in Toronto! Is that far? 😁

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HodloBaggins@reddit

6 hour drive but fuck it I’ll move it I gotta lol

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Wobbly5ausage@reddit

Inquiring minds must know!

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UntestedMethod@reddit

Office administrator seems to be the lowest barrier to entry job in the professional world. If you find the right company, it can pay relatively well considering the minimal qualifications needed.

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UntestedMethod@reddit

I knew a guy who BS'ed his way into a bookkeeping job. They eventually found out and fired his dumb ass. Lol but it could do in a short-term pinch if you find a company stupid enough to fall for it.

Additionally, I've known a few bookkeepers who don't come across as super intelligent themselves and they all seem to love saying how stupid their predecessors are... Sooo I'm just gonna go ahead and suggest bookkeeper for this one.

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UntestedMethod@reddit

I knew a guy who BS'ed his way into a bookkeeping job. They eventually found out and fired his dumb ass. Lol but it could do in a short-term pinch if you find a company stupid enough to fall for it.

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Dead_Inside50@reddit

Telemarketing

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UntestedMethod@reddit

They said they want one that pays relatively well...

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fruderduck@reddit

President

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floppydo@reddit

SaaS sales. Tons of research before an interview using chat gpt. It’s particularly well suited for this because it’s been written about as nauseam so the models have it nailed. Also they just want warm bodies for the grind. Once hired it’s all a numbers game. If you work your ass off and put up good metrics you can go from $ to $$$$ really quickly.

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