Magnetic Treasures

I didn’t upload and link it before bed, but last night going through floppies I made another big discovery: The management-oriented resume from 1997 used for applying for the technical development lead position (converted to HTML and with most of the header blanked; it looks better in Word, with clearer bullets).

It takes precisely a page.  It only includes the two technical jobs as of the time.  It emphasizes things that aren’t technical as much as possible, and harks back in brief to relevant experience going back to much earlier jobs.  It takes the software experience section of old and summarizes it as “computing,” which I could still do, but it would be more extensive.

For the Stream job, it uses the format of listing the various positions.  I recently polled people and if I recall correctly that was frowned upon most of the time.  In that context, it worked.  You can see how short a time I was an SDSR.  They pretty much wanted to make me a TDL and the SDSR promotion, already delayed due to favoritism and variations in how freely such things were done, worked toward that.  It’s cool having something that actually shows when each was, since I had long forgotten.

I should have gone through the old floppies long ago.  It’s a treasure trove.  Besides the resume linked above, I found a more technical initial version, notes about what to emphasize or include, and a resume under construction for my brother to try to get a job at Stream.

It created a fluster when he applied and came to interview, because he was there for VB support.  Not only did I work there, violating a policy against siblings in the same department, which they’d freely violated elsewhere in the building, but also they were already sure I was going to be promoted.  That really wouldn’t fly, but it was amusing to get advance knowledge.

People were impressed, and he’d probably have been hired for VB, which was a more technical step up from application support.  They had to refer him over to Word support instead.  The manager there at the time, widely considered a raving bitch, wouldn’t give him the time of day.  I believe “not enough experience” was the official explanation.  Probably “no college” was the real reason.

What I am trying to figure out is why I have floppy after floppy filled with train pictures.  Trains are cool and all, but I’m not obsessed and having the pictures makes no sense.  I figure I may have copied them for someone else and then they remained on the floppies.

Posted by on 10/19 at 09:55 AM

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