What The Person Interviewing You For A Job Says And What They Actually Mean
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”
The right answer is at this company, functioning as an indispensable member of our team. You won’t want to be that after five minutes of working here, let alone five years; but play along.
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Some Questionable Facts About Portland
Have you guys ever heard of a band called, Tampon Bicycle Murders? They’re intense. I couldn’t really find a legitimate Myspace page for them or anything but there was just this one kind of shady “zine” from 1998 that briefly mentioned them as “Portland’s next big all-female punk band.”
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Karim Kazemi (b. 1996) is a teenage boy and future proprietor of a jetpack.
I Just Broke Up With My Partner Of Five Years
I have to reprogram my life from ‘we’ to ‘I’. It’s weird to think when I tell my kids about my early 20s, I probably will just ramble on about all the things I did even though it’s really all the things we did. But once that painful extraction begins there is simply no return.
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Colette currently resides in Paris with her lover, three cats and one small dog.
How To Get Laid
How do you get someone to have sex with you? First things first, don’t go looking for it! That would make too much sense. You should be actively not looking for sex when you’re on your search to get laid. Does that make sense? I’m sorry if it doesn’t. I didn’t make the rules.
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I write and edit Thought Catalog. I'm a brat. Send me fun things at ryan@thoughtcatalog.com 
Dispelling The Tooth Fairy Myth (Or My Dental Coming Of Age)
I woke without opening my eyes. I was small, I don’t know, maybe 7 years old? Do you still even lose teeth when you’re 7? No matter—all that I know is that I was small, smaller than I am now, that it was dark and quiet, and that I had been woken up but my eyes were still closed and I had lost a tooth the day before.
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Kate George is the Managing Editor at Portable.tv. Lives like Die Hard but with a Katy Perry vibe. Follow her on ... 
