WHERE kim sunoo is comfortable using legal jargon in everyday life. i object! ✿ enha's 김선우 x reader, wc: 1.4k, university!au, fluff content warnings: none but please lmk if i missed anything!

author's note: i have a confession to make... i was originally going to post jay's story right after jake's but then i messed up the html so now i need to edit it a bit :(( but i will still be posting it after i finish editing, and maybe another two members tomorrow ? question ? or the eighteen million other fics sitting in my drafts.. idk yet but anywyas i had sm fun writing sunoo's bc the concept of sunoo being a law student... like !!!! but lmk your thoughts and happy reading <33

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uni student!sunoo is a law major with a minor in communications, and somehow that combination makes perfect sense for him. from a very young age, sunoo knew two things about himself: one, he loved to talk. and two, he loved the thrill of winning. so when the time came to decide what uni student!sunoo wanted to study in university, law felt less like a choice and more like the obvious answer.

i think uni student!sunoo is someone who wears his heart on his sleeve. he throws himself into everything he does, whether it's a class presentation, a club event, or helping a friend cram for finals. law wasn't appealing to him just because he liked debating people—it was because he genuinely wanted to advocate for others. if uni student!sunoo could spend the rest of his life helping even one person through his work, he'd consider that a life well spent.

The very public cancelations of DEI programs got me thinking about my experience as the Executive Sponsor of a DEI program at a major global software company a few years ago.

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I've been working in WordPress exclusively for the last three years or so. I've picked up a lot about the structure and the architectural decisions of the platform. I'm a big fan of the mechanisms for modularity extending and altering all aspects of the application. I think that for as big an application as it is, designed to support the work of many different authors via the plugin and theme system, I think that there isn't a "better" way to do it.

But I also think that for the vast majority of web development projects it's overkill. WordPress is overbuilt because it has to be. It has to allow plugins to modify core functionality of the platform, but it also has to treat them as marginally suspect because the platform will allow users to install outdated plugins as well as plugins from unknown sources. It has to provide additional APIs and security measures in an attempt to silo off that code.

I do still have some questions that I haven't been able to satisfyingly answer. I know WordPress has the ability to concat styles, it does it by default for the administrative section, and it has been a pain in my ass several times on domain changes on nonstandard hostings. So why doesn't it do that on the front end? Why doesn't it support caching the output by default. WordPress is the code that runs first and last on output, so it would make sense for it to do the caching rather than having caching modules rely on catching the output via output buffering, which when nested can make some truly awful fail states that are frustrating to debug. I get why it's not on by default. WordPress is a blogging CMS, the idea is that the content should be changing daily and caching that might make the dynamic content less dynamic. I don't know why the CMS doesn't support compression and optimization by default. All scripts have to register themselves with WordPress to run, so it's a ready made list to compress via minification and gzip.

Anyway, for the most part I like it, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of what I have questions about are features that I'm not aware of or are somewhere in the roadmap but aren't considered priorities because there are well liked plugins that currently solve those problems. Despite the fact that those well liked plugins mean you're installing a minimum of 5 - 6 per site, and that's before you need any specialty features or are considering installing WooCommerce. And the way most of these plugins work, they have to reside in memory.

And I think that's a bad habit that a lot of PHP developers have these days. Object Oriented Programming is a very useful tool. It brings a lot of reusability and modularity to code, and it creates a fantastic discrete unit for organizing functions that are related to each other, either by purpose or by source. But I think a lot of people forget that PHP is not a compiled language. It isn't an application that is running and waiting for user response. It's a process fired by the web server designed to do a single thing and then end. Any state or other persistence is managed by a hodgepodge of database, cookie, and filesystem changes. When you're processing a PHP request you have the opportunity to evaluate the request being made and load in only what's needed to fulfill it. In fact, to write good and fast code, you basically have an obligation to do that.

And yet, most WordPress plugins are designed to load the entirety of themselves immediately. WordPress core is a little smarter about what it loads when, but because it has to provide APIs to so many different moving parts, there are a lot of limitations to what it can leave off when. I've been writing plugins based on the vogon architecture for the last year or so and I really wonder why more people aren't doing that.

The way my plugins work is there is a core file, as required by the WordPress plugin API. This file declares what the plugin is, its version, who wrote it, declares five helper functions, and then registers a number of actions and filters with the various WP APIs. Each of those in turn call an entirely different controller file which sets up the request and loads models and views as needed. But because these are nested inside functions, these includes are not actually done unless that action is fired.

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The Keys to Hiring the Right Person

One of our community members sent a note this week saying that he knows of a leader who is hiring from outside the organization, when they already have an otherwise qualified candidate internally without a degree. He asked if I could make a convincing argument for the internal candidate to be considered.

I responded that I could not (nor was I sure I’d want to) as I know nothing about the situation, the leader, or the detailed qualifications of the people involved. However, I couldn’t help but consider the larger questions here: What is the value of a college degree? Should someone with a degree trump an internal candidate who has every other qualification met but no degree?

This is a tough question for me to answer objectively. Between Bonni and I, we have six degrees and both of us have taught lots of college classes – so it probably goes without saying that I see value in degrees. It’s still huge for credibility to get a foot in the door in many professional jobs. That said, there is also a growing chorus of voices of those wondering if the world is changing and if college graduates will have the same success in the future. This recent article in the Economist looks at both sides of the argument.

For me, the key to hiring the right person is considering what they have done with the opportunities they have had, more so that the degree itself. Let me explain:

When I was a college senior, I received a call from Microsoft to interview for a position at their headquarters near Seattle. That was a pretty cool phone call to get at the time – and during the process, the recruiter shared why they had made the call: because of my three years in a major leadership role of our school’s summer orientation program. The recruiter cited excellent experience with past candidates who had an orientation background, so she screened for that. I got the call and was on a plane to Seattle in a matter of days.

Did I need a degree to qualify for that job? You bet. Was the degree the reason they called me? Not at all. I knew tons of people that had the same degree (or better) who never received a call from Microsoft. Certainly, they screened people for degrees first – but what they really cared about was hiring people who had already demonstrated leadership and managed others in some key capacity. In short, they wanted someone with proven skills.

A college degree can provide a great environment to prove yourself (it did for me) and that’s a big reason people screen for degrees. Yet, it’s only one way to prove yourself. I’ve worked with extraordinarily talented people over the years who only finished high school…and, I’ve also had poor experiences in business dealings with people who have master’s and doctoral degrees – and many good experiences too, of course.

A college degree is only one piece of a person’s professional tapestry. When I’m considering working with someone, I want to first know what kind of results they’ve had in the past, how much they’ve taken the time to understand what we do, and what they’ve done with the opportunities they’ve had. It’s one of the reasons that Bonni and I are both involved as advisors for Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) since it provides college students with leadership and business opportunities to make contributions to the world, long before they ever graduate.

The keys to hiring the right person for me: Have they proven themselves already? Do they show evidence of challenging themselves? Have they been willing to make mistakes? Can they communicate and work well with others? And, if they have a degree – all the better.

One big turnoff? People who think they are entitled to something just because they have a degree.

For me, the degree is a strong starting point – but it’s just that…and you can convince me to overlook its absence when the answers to the other questions are strong.

Corona has probably hit a lot of people hard and it has been a tough time for everyone, especially people who just left college to enter the work force or have been out of a job and had been looking to get back into the force. While this might not solve much, I want to provide some additional advice piggy-backing off a previous post.

<Previous Resume Advice Post>

Again, Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV) since this is entirely subjective and very US-centric. A lot of the resumes that come across my desk are for specialized jobs and higher-levels, so I’ve had a bit of a disconnect with entry-level and recent grad-level resumes. Regardless, I still want to help answer some questions that people have and hopefully give a bit of a push to help you into the jobs you want.

There’s more of this sort of stuff under the tag: ‘adult drivels’.

One morning, our Training Director was at our store and gave us a training on something - I can’t even remember what it was - in our lunchroom. Right then I knew that’s what I wanted to do. I started volunteering at the Dispute Resolution Center for Washington, knowing I needed to start getting anything with “training” on my resume, so I started with Conflict Resolution. I still use the premises from a book they made me read called the Art of Ethical Persuasion, it is so so so so good. Timeless. 

Anyway, I moved to the downtown Seattle Nordstrom store to sell, and that was exciting. And then it happened, a training position came up - a  Washington Alaska Training Specialist. I applied and met Wendall the manager - she interviewed me and I thought she was incredible. I could not believe it when I got the job. 

I was so great at that job. Really, really good. Wendall taught me how to facilitate. She showed me the importance of being neutral, how as a facilitator I can give and take power and that’s an important dynamic in a classroom. She taught me to always wear lipstick and I did it for years. 

My parents gave me a lap top - a 22 lb Dell - and I carried that thing everyday on the bus, I’m not sure why because I had my own work computer but it was probably because I was a weirdo. I was obsessed with it and then I found the software Macromedia Director and was obsessed even more. I ended up making this huge movie for our new hire orientation using Macromedia - it’s a movie you could convert to PowerPoint - and the file was so huge, I ended up calling my friend John who was one of the first software developers at Microsoft (he invented Clippy which I still give him shit about to this day). He had a crush on me, we’d been on one date months prior - afterwards, I asked him into my room to help me with a few things on my computer and I was interested in Power Point, a program I didn’t really understand well. I remember him looking over my shoulder and saying “ok good - so open up a new slide. great. Now go ahead and right-click”. 

And I wrote the word “click”. I really did that. 

He was embarrassed for me and I quickly realized my mistake. He left pretty quickly after that and we never spoke of it again. Oh my God, I am still mortified as I write it down. LOL. 

Anyway, we drove to his office at 1am to see if he could fix this now monster file filled with photos and music.. We finally got it to work but thing was just too big, so Wendall hired a videographer to actually take a video of it while it played on my computer. She spent 1500 dollars on that, money our department didn’t have, but she was so positive and while terrible, I think I still have a VHS tape of it somewhere. 

Wendall taught me everything, a single mom so deeply devoted to her kids and to the community. One day we laughed so hard I ended up peeing on my shoe, and I was mortified but it made us laugh even harder. 

One day I had decided to sit outside for lunch - I watched all of the busy business ladies in their suits rushing by and the homeless intermingled; as I ate my sandwich I thought to myself “I’d really like to do something to help the homeless someday.” I went back in to finish my day and Wendall and her boss - the woman who had facilitated that first training I saw when I fell in love with training - asked me into a conference room. They were eliminating my position that day, but they wanted me to stay on as an HR manager of a Nordstrom Rack downtown, they thought I’d be good at it because they were starting a program to transition homeless people in to their first job. 

I remember being shocked - shocked that I had just said that to myself at lunch. Shocked I was so good at the job and they were eliminating it. Wendall looked at me dead in the eye and said “You are better at this than me, Diane - you are an incredible designer - you should have this job instead of me, I am so sorry.” I went home, and emailed them both a really gracious note and that next Monday, went to be the HR manager which is a whole other insane first day story that involves being trapped in a tiny office with a pigeon and I fainted. I might tell that later but that’s not the point of this. 

I encourage hopeful gameplay programmers to take these classes in specific while in school:

Data Structures

Algorithms

Linear Algebra

Computer Graphics (more for the math elements)

Object-oriented programming

Something using C++

Specifically, you should expand your toolbox so you can tell which solutions are more efficient when solving problems. Linear Algebra and Computer Graphics set a mathematical foundation for understanding how things work in 3 dimensions and how to calculate getting from one point in space to another. These skills are incredibly useful to a gameplay programmer, because we often have to deal with solving those sorts of problems. C++ is the industry standard programming language, so familiarity with C++ is a very big benefit. 

For projects, I just encourage you to do a lot of stuff. Make games. Make mods. Make tools for games. Participate in game jams. Do your own projects. Build something cool, get your friends to play it. Take some video of it and show us your work. Apply the lessons you learned in class to the projects you work on - mod a grab system for a FPS or expand the way stealth works. Build your own maps with custom scripted behaviors or create a new way to traverse an old game. Put yourself in a position where you’ve got gameplay problems to solve through code and then solve them through code. The more of that you have, the better your resume will look to hiring managers like me.

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