I need a fresh resumé and I need it NOW but I also need to get these immediate work tasks done NOW and I also need to organize a shitload of business expense information for my tax accountant NOW and perhaps most important of all, it's past noon and I need to go see what the soup du jour is NOW NOW NOW. So what do I do? Sit here and write about it.
When a job possibility is dangled by a friend, you don't want to snooze on it because that tells the friend bad things about you. "My peer has reqs in the US," he says. "I’m not certain where he is at in the hiring process. If you had a resume together, I could recommend you."
If, indeed. Why wouldn't I? Doesn't everyone, all the time? The thing is, to get into my current gig I had to have a current resumé. But the only one I can find is from before that, last time I changed jobs, back in 2011. I'm sure I wrote up the next four years somewhere but damned if I can find where. So I gotta do that all over, plus edit the preceding years so they take up less space, plus tack on what I've been doing these past nine months, and that's way too much to do before lunch or at all this afternoon since I'm also working some not-easy technical shit to a deadline. Upshot will be that by the time I invite myself into that hiring process there will have been a lag time of several days and that indicates a level of interest that's just not very interesting.
The Woman has a different idea anyway. She is a guiding light. I'm the decider, but she's a guiding light, and the image floating above her like some ghostly illumination shows a much different and much more enjoyable situation than I keep trying to lock myself into here. I'm a creature of certain habits and doubts, and my natural conservatism has me avoid certain kinds of risks. But for reasons it will continue to take my whole life to explain, I remain susceptible to the wisdom of the women who are my guiding lights, and hers suggests that this job possibility dangling before me is not at all what I want to do (about which she is right), and that it is high time I quit taking jobs I didn't really want, and started doing what I really wanted.
This is a radical idea.
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Very radical.
I know we're supposed to be on top of the resume and LinkedIn thing. I totally failed at all that. I have literally no contacts or references, should I ever need them.
I find that appealing radical ideas are expensive propositions. Which means they're fulfilling and fun if you can afford them. Which means if you have a good job, you might be lucky enough to pull it off. So you should be in good shape here.
No, wait...
I totally live the resume thing. I haven't updated mine in about 4 years, maybe 5. And my work requires it about every 3 - 6 months for a variety of reasons. And every time I think, "Damn, I gotta get this thing up to date." In fact, now that I'm thinking of it, I gotta get that thing up to date. Maybe tomorrow.
Paula: I used to think that AOL was the Great Satan, but it turns out that it is, in fact, Linked In.
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