Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Jay: Year or Month - Year?
I have two variations, with the current resume being in month and year format and the older one being in year-only format.
My main concerns with month and year are when I remember the year but not the month, which is only true of one relatively insignificant position, and space, where I just ended up with a line that has position and date range wrapping to a second line. That’s going to require reformatting, rephrasing, or changing to year. That’s to the extent the job may even appear, since this is my master resume and variants are unlikely to include it.
Actually, my other oddity is with XTreme. Technically, I am with it until we formally dissolve or I officially leave but it still technically exists with the other two partners, which isn’t going to happen. Technically, my work is not done until I have filed the last 1065 and canceled the sales tax account and such. Technically, even though there’s not revenue after what’s waiting for me to collect when I get to it, or if I attempt to go after other money for other past work, and even though the effort involved in winding things down will be modest, the end date on that should be “present,” not “October 1997,” which would render saying “1997” actually more accurate. In an ambiguous sort of way.
I don’t think it would be that odd that, if I leave Stream as multiple positions, those would be:
1997 - 1999
1997
1996 - 1997
1995 - 1996
1994 - 1995
Anyway, thoughts on the display of dates in a resume?
I may have used just years originally to sound better. Renovator’s Supply was 1990 - 1992 and that made it non-obvious that between it and Tranti Systems, 1993 - 1994, was a year and fourteen days unemployed. Which is further obfuscated if there’s the Arisia volunteer work and the low level side business that mainly involved doing taxes mentioned in there, bridging years and years.
Which brings me to another thing I’d meant to post about… And which would also make a good LinkedIn question.
Jay: Is It Gout…
Or is it weather change arthritis-like pain? Perhaps a combination? Sigh…
Sleep-deprived or not, at least I’m getting in a near-final burst of activity on my resume this morning.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Jeff Soyer, who is 53 - born the same year as my oldest brother - and celebrating a fifth blogiversary as well today.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To blogger Jay Tea of Wizbang, who is the big four-OH today.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my cousin Andy, who is 33 today.
Jay: Happy Birthday
To former blogger Lionel Mandrake.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Jay: Resume Discussion
This is a post for comments on my resume in progress, or the care and feeding of resumes, or job hunting more generally.
Alternatively, feel free to e-mail me, jay at this domain, jay at elhide, or marshe at elhide dot com. As I post this. I am about to update; I just needed this link to include. How very circular.
Update:
The trouble with editing things in w.bloggar that are meant to be pages instead of posts is that you have to remember line breaks won’t happen automatically…
Deb: Useless Angst
All of that stressing over whether or not to do paid posting? Pointless! Pay Per Post doesn’t accept blogs with more than one author.
D’oh!
Deb: Resistance has been futile.
I have been assimilated.
Latest symptom? Excitement over the Red Sox going to the World Series.
I know, I know.
LOL.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Jay: Later
I have another interim resume that is way beyond what I previously linked. As I have time to finish reformatting it in HTML, since why should copy and paste from Word to FrontPage be effortless, I’ll finish, upload and link the thing. I hope that will be by morning.
The thing will need more work, but it starts to get into the finer points. That and it can be changed around for emphasis on one thing or another. Heck, it already sounds like maybe it emphasizes technical management and training. Which reminds me I did classes for people at the big client. Free ones, since the owner would never have paid for training, and even tried to get out of it completely (successfully minimizing it enough to regret) on switching to new and vastly complex software. But I digress.
Stay tuned…
Deb: So now that you all totally think I’m a bratty, spoiled, lazy housewife…
I’d just like to note that I have absolutely no objection to working a lousy side job.
It’s just that it’s INCREDIBLY WRONG on SO MANY levels to suggest a lousy side job as the non-chemical equivalent of a mother’s little helper.
I mean, I’ve never said to Jay, Wow, you must get so bored working on computers all day! Have you thought about getting a job at Burger King, just for some variety?
FWIW, there’ll be ads up here, I think, before long. Things are a little tight at the moment, and I’m trying to hold out a while longer before I go for the lousy job, because right this minute? Creates at least as many problems as it solves. Maybe even some paid posting action, because as much as I dislike it on other blogs, there’s this rent thing to pay. (Sorry, Jen. :-\)
No more diapers, though, for the girls, because we’re doing potty boot camp this week. They’re ready, just lazy. I’ve run out of patience.
Um, that’s all. I think.
Jay: Dreams Are Whacky
I just had a strange dream in which I declared “you can’t talk about alzheimer’s without bringing up gangrene,” in which the right of Americans to lock doors was considered sacred and Glenn Reynolds was agitating on the topic, in which a science fiction convention was in a cross between a mall and a hospital and the first floor where the staff massed was simber but the rest was fun, and in which my brother was there getting no sleep and volunteering to attend free, then my brother morphed into my nephew and I stabbed an obnoxious staff person in the head with the pin on a badge holder who wrongly insisted my nephew had to use a name and not a number on his name badge.
Jay: I’m Confused
How can you host a blog carnival and not even look at almost half the entries?
It makes no sense.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Deb: Add Everclear
...to the list of bands Henry seems to like. Not surprising, as I played So Much for the Afterglow quite a bit when I was pregnant with him. Makes a great soundtrack for neurotic cleaning, which really is the only kind I ever do…
Deb: I mean, seriously…
Would anybody tell a man that they understand that his job is mentally difficult, physically exhausting, and underpaid, and that yes, being on-call 24-7 is rough (never mind that he hasn’t expressed that he’s troubled by any of this), and that therefore--in order to get a break!--he should consider getting another job, any other job, even maybe a job at Burger King or something, so he has a few hours a day where he’s not at the first job?
No?
I didn’t think so.
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