u/EquipmentCertain8118

I keep seeing posts about Lalo potentially being ex military, due to his spy-like tactics, marksmanship, agility, etc.

There are two main reasons I do NOT think this hypothesis holds up:

1. While tactically intelligent, there are dead giveaways that Lalo is not ex military, most obvious being his firearm handling. Yes, he seems to be a good shot, but the way he waves his pistol around with one hand like it's a flashlight (Casper chase in Germany), as well as his lack of trigger discipline (watch the way he casually rests his finger in the trigger guard in Point and Shoot while talking to Jimmy and Kim in the apartment) screams "no formal training".
2. I think this is even more important: Lalo was born into a wealthy cartel family. Not only does it not behoove him to go into the military—trust fund

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1. inheriting a multi-million dollar business—but his family likely wouldn't even ALLOW it... I would imagine he was groomed from birth to take over the family business, much like certain children of legal business owners are. ie "One day, you'll run the business, and that's final." The Salamanca family isn't just going to give up heirs to the family fortune, much less risk them dying in military combat.

I believe Lalo is most likely self-taught/naturally tactically gifted. With Lalo being a highly intelligent person with an apparent low tolerance for uncertainty, it’s not hard for me to imagine him spending a lot of his spare time and resources learning things like firearms handling, spy secrets, parkour, psychology, survival, etc.

After all, a guy who faked his death, went all the way to Germany undetected to gather intel, then came back to enact TWO highly strategic plans (the first one failing) to take down Gus?

I think he’s what upper management would call “a self starter.”

I just got rejected from an entry level local print shop position paying dogshit money (like 40K). I thought, “What the hell? I’ll just work there while I try to find something else.” (I’m in marketing)

Was I seen as a flight risk? Maybe. I’m sure with 5 years of corporate experience plus a bachelor’s degree, they know damn well I’ll be out of there with the first good opportunity I get.

But it got me thinking… we used to be able to work jobs like this and hate them. We used to get crappy ass store jobs that paid crap money, and have this attitude of, “Yeah, I know I should be grateful to have a job, but I’m just not. Life isn’t going how I thought it would.”

In 2026? It seems like we don’t even get that luxury. If you’re a white collar professional, it’s like you can’t even fall back on a crap job to pay your bills. It’s such an employers’ market right now, that even crap jobs seem to have the entitlement to say, “Hmm, yeah… he/she will probably leave after 6-8 months. Pass.”

Shoot, when I worked jobs like this back in 2019 and 2020? They were so short handed, they were BEGGING the biggest pieces of human garbage to work there, and oh pretty please only call in sick for 60% of your shifts.

Jesus H.

This whole idea we’ve accepted that “writing a resume is an aRt fOrm in anD of itsElf” is crap.

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve (M28) been in the workforce for over 5 years now, and I know where the hell I was for those 5 years.

Recruiters: Here are the places I worked, my job titles, and what I did.

It shouldn’t be this much work. I already put IN the work for 5 years (and many of us have put in FAR more work than that) by sacrificing 40 hours/week of my one life on this planet.

Jesus Christ, enough with the rewriting, parsing, tailoring, punching up, rewording, polishing, revising, editing, touching up, redoing—goddammit, ENOUGH!!!

Read what the hell is on my resume, and use your imagination. If I tell you I was a Marketing Operations Specialist and provide 3-4 bullets of my accomplishments and activities, you should get the goddamn picture. I wasn’t doing rocket science, and neither are you, and neither are 99% of workers out here. It was a JOB. Some of it was hard, most of it wasn’t.

I swear to god, 90% of corporate activity nowadays is just useless employees (recruiters and HM’s especially) trying to justify their useless jobs to their useless bosses because they are terrified of being laid off because they know their job could be done by a friggin ringtail lemur.

This is absolutely a part of modern corporate culture that needs to change.