Seriously, the job I have now requried a masters degree. My cover letter and my 10+ years of specfic experience got them to talk to me even though I only have an associates degree.

Now I am the go-to for search commitees in my department, and the only thing worse then no cover letter is when folks use a form one and forget to change ot or fill in the blanks.

Same, I typically only comment if I have something new to add to the conversation. That being said, I probably comment more on lemmy then I used to on reddit simply because with a this smaller community there is more of a chance that what I want to share has not already been said.