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Please Read My Scenario About This Current Consulting Company I’m Dealing With And Provide Some Insight?


I’ve been officially unemployed for a while just working part-time, on and off unpaid with a family friend so at least I can learn something about the field I’m interested in. I recently finished a programming class to which I was contacted by a consulting company that wished to train me further, fix up my resume then send me out on job interviews with their clients. So I finished the training to find out that I’m supposed to fake my ENTIRE resume and lie to clients that I’m a senior programmer when in fact I have absolutely ZERO experience. I argued with the recruiter back and forth but being the salesman that he is and that I figured I have nothing to lose, I decided to just roll with it.
So shoot forward a few weeks, I get a phone screen interview with an recruitment agency that is in partnership with the one I’m affiliated with to which I pass with ease since they didn’t ask me any technical questions. I was then arranged with a 2nd interview to which I talk with the senior programmers and it would be a bit more technical. Honestly I completely BS’ed my answers, gave them vague but correct responses to which I had a feeling that they KNEW that I was a fraud because they would pause everytime I answered a question and they would then reply with :uhh oookkkaayyy.” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that obviously my speaking level does not equate to a programmer that has been on the job for 7 years and for them being 10 years experience, I totally didn’t expect them to pass my interview to which the next step was on-site.
I breathed a sigh of relief because I was actually thinking of telling my recruiter that I don’t want to be dishonest and I just want to go to an interview where everything that comes out of my mouth is truth. But lo and behold, to my surprise they passed me and wanted to meet me in person for the final round and this time I have to interview with 4 senior level programmers.
Honestly I don’t know if I can do this anymore, I really don’t want to drive 4 hours down to possibly be humiliated but my recruiter has told me that if I back out on this interview it will harm his consulting company’s reputation for sending unreliable candidates. I don’t think I can sit there for 4 hours defending a resume that is completely utterly false and I have regret doing this crap with him just because I wanted to find a way to make a career with programming. I have a feeling that the managers might know and they just want to invite me on-site to humiliate me for being a fraud. He wants me to read books and prepare but I’m so sick to my stomach for doing this that I can’t even read. I don’t want to do this interview but I don’t want to ruin the reputation either. At least my resume is fake to the point I have another email and a google voice number to cover my real one (per his instruction) so I can salvage whatever I have left provided they destroy me on-site. Is there any way I can cancel this interview. I seriously want to go the honest route and don’t want to pull this nonsense. I’ve can’t believe this guy’s been conducting these fraudulent practices for over 7 years and has not gotten caught yet. Any way I can get out of this job interview? I don’t want to go to be possibly crucified or get caught. I rather just avoid all of this and start applying the honest way. Please help

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I’m A 20 Yr Old Living In Egypt, Thinking Of Starting Up My Own Business In The New Year. How Does This Sound!?


I have absolutely zero experience in running a business, but I have got my head on my shoulders. I left school and worked for a year as a waitress in a top London restaurant, I got to see a fair bit of the business side of things and I’m great with people. If I’m passionate about something I can be very driven. I’ve just spent the last 6 months living independently in Egypt and doing my PADI Divemaster course.
I’ve recently had an idea. The place where I live out here is a small but very colourful, lively coastal town. It’s touristed but it’s not completely ruined by it. Just about the perfect balance. All kinds of activities and sports take place here; windsurfing, kitesurfing, diving, quad biking, wakeboarding, rock climbing, free diving, etc. I’ve noticed that there’s a niche here. No one’s ever packaged these things all together and served them up on one exhilaratingly tempting plate. The divers don’t really mix with the windsurfers, half of the people out here probably don’t even know about things like the rock climbing because it’s so poorly publicised. I want to take everything this town has to offer and put it all together in customisable ‘package holidays’ for people wanting to have a fun, active time and meet like-minded, fun-loving people. You could pick and choose what you wanted to do and then at the end of the day there’d be a group event like a meal out or a barbecue. It’d be a great bonding experience and give people a chance to step outside of the box and try things they’ve never given a go before. I think this idea could really work, and as my dad said the ‘overheads’ really wouldn’t have to be massive, all it really needs to begin with is a website and an office. I’m getting very intrigued by this whole idea and really want to pull it off. What do you guys think? Do you like the idea? How would I even go about all of this? Any advice really appreciated.

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