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“Why is the bullpup design not common? Is it too expensive, or does it have limited applications?”Many bull bullpup designs suffer from not being ambidextrous. Take a look at the British L85 (SA80) rifle:Shoot it left handed and you are making a trip to the dentist.Even the ones that can be converted to left hand use like the AUG can’t be converted with a snap of the fingers.When stacking up on a room to clear it, the person in front your stack will go either left or right. If they go left, you go right. If they go right, you go left. If you are to pie (clear) a room to the right side of the door, you will expose the side of your body to the left of the rifle. What this means is that if you are shooting right-handed, that is pretty much most of your body. If you can, you switch to a left-handed operation in order to minimize exposing your body while you pie the room to your right. It’s not that hard to learn to shoot weak handed and it keeps you from exposing yourself unnecessarily. You can’t do that with most bullpups.There are exceptions, for example, the P90 is a bullpup that ejects downwards so it can be used right or left handed with no modifications.

I've had the dubious benefit of being born into poverty and matured into wealth, which gave me some insight on both sides of the divide. We are new money, but it was money painstakingly acquired through decades of sheer grit and sacrifice by my parents which gave us all of the baggage of poverty and none of the entitlement of wealth.My father was the son of an immigrant fishmonger from China, and shared throughout his childhood a single room in a wooden house with an extended family of two dozen. In 1950s Malaya, privacy was a luxury few could afford.He had to balance his schoolwork with helping out at my grandparents' fish and noodle stalls. Oftentimes, he would have to do his homework nestled between piles of dead fish, clams, and decapitated chicken carcasses. Health and safety wasn't a thing back then.One of the most enduring memories of my childhood was wandering the aisles of the local Toys'r'us. We would marvel at the endless rows of shiny new toys, fantasise about them, and leave empty handed. Asking my parents to buy anything was an exercise in futility. Food and education was just about all they could afford.In my late teens, our economic situation began to turn. My father's business began to prosper, and he could finally afford to send all three of us overseas for further education. After years of hopping between rented apartments, my parents could finally afford to build their own house. Not just buy one, build one. With a koi pond, floral designs on the window grills, an open air tea room, private rooms with en-suite bathrooms for everyone, a doghouse, a vegetable patch for my grandmother, a TV room and everything. For years my parents would dream about how our new home would look like, meticulously draw it out with pencil and 12-inch ruler on their little notebook, and run off to the architect's office the next day to have the changes committed to the floor plan. The smile on my parents' face when we moved in out-shined our tropical sun.So how does it feel to finally have money after having grown up in poverty?Truth be told, it feels great. It feels great to not have to count pennies. It feels great to be able to travel overseas. It feels great to be able to afford to pay for my child's education. It feels great to be able to enjoy a nice dinner with my wife without breaking the bank. It feels great to be able to go to church and not have to short change the offering basket. It feels great to be able to leave during a workday to attend to my sick child without having to write a leave application letter ten days in advance. When you've had so little for so long, the simplest things are the most precious.Some habits still carry over from the old days. My father would snap at us for using too much toilet paper. My mother would recycle leftover food. I get upset when the lights are on and there's no one in the room. Old habits are hard to break!

Usually yes. And there’s a good reason for it too; those automated resume submission tools everyone loves to use these days are wasting the recruiter’s/HR’s time, and hurting your chances of being seen.In the old days, you could actually read every resume. People generally only applied for jobs they thought would be a fit, so HR at least had a reasonable expectation that if someone took the time to send in a resume it was because they at least thought they were qualified for the job.Today that’s no longer the case. Automated services are firing off resumes based on keyword matches, flooding the inboxes of HR personnel and wasting their time with resumes from people who never would have thrown their name in if they had actually read the job description.I ran an ad recently looking for a Facebook marketer; the ad was very specific, because we were looking for someone with a very specific skill set. We used phrases like “dark posts” and “precise interest targeting”. We specified we were only seeking applicants who had consumer products industry experience, and had previously worked with Facebook marketing budgets over $1 million. We were clear that we were looking for a full time hire who would work from our office, and not an agency or remote worker. We even called out that it was strictly a marketing position and not a “social media manager”.And what did we get? Hundreds of auto submissions from services that picked up on keywords and submitted resumes of people who were completely unqualified for the job, never read the job description, and possibly didn’t even realize their resume was sent to us.The majority of the submissions were people looking for social media manager jobs. The second most common submission was from agencies (or rather, individuals who wanted to bill themselves as an agency). The third most common was from people with Google and Bing experience, with zero mention of experience with Facebook ads on their resume.My favorite was a person who had managed $100 per day in marketing spend for a non profit organization’s “multi-channel strategy” including Facebook, Google, and Bing. So what, $33 per platform? We spend $70,000 per week on Facebook ads. Did you even read the job post?Literally hundreds of junk submissions came in. Only four actually met the criteria we were looking for. And I don’t mean four that we liked - I mean four that actually met the minimum qualifications cited in the post.But I’ll tell you the submissions that stood out whether the individual was ultimately the right fit or not; it was when the resume was sent to HR as an attachment by a person from their actual email account with a brief intro, not a job site’s submission tool.There is a 100% chance the email will be opened. That means there is a right way and a wrong way to do this.If your email body is generic, like “attached is my resume for blah blah blah”. That’s less interesting.If you throw your entire resume into the email body, that’s also less interesting. A long email is less likely to be read all the way through to completion.What stood out were the applicants who included a very brief intro paragraph that indicated they had actually read the job description, had the relevant experience that qualified them for it, and were familiar with the company and products. The resume was attached.“I saw you guys were looking for someone to manage your Facebook campaigns. I used to be with [XYZ], we were spending about [$X] per week and getting a 3-5x ROI. I’m looking to make a move and would love to have a high-level conversation about what your goals are. My resume is attached.”Short, sweet, and to the point. Guess who was at the front of the line for interviews…You have six seconds; this is your elevator pitch.Do you want those six seconds to be spent glancing at your resume among a stack of others and making a snap judgment based solely on that? Or do you want them spent reading a few sentences that sum up why they should read your whole resume and then talk to you?Think about it.Don’t do the same thing everyone else does. If you only invest six seconds pitching yourself, you can’t expect to get more than six seconds in return.