I went and got my old resume pulled out of the filing cabinet last night and got the date I started working here.
Dec 7, 1998 - present.
When it's written like that it almost looks like dates on a tombstone doesn't it.
Has it really been almost 7 years? It doesn't really feel like it, but then a whole lot of life can pass by when you're not really paying attention to it.
It's sort of amusing to look over the things that were on my last resume and decide what I should put on the next one.
I mean does it still matter that I was the top student in my high school for two years, or does the finishing with honours from bcit since then matter more? How about winning math competitions? Maybe I should leave that on, or maybe I should chop it off, who knows. I think the years I was in high school and the year long gap between grades 10 and 11 can safely go.
Something tells me I can leave off the paper route and the working at a corner store now that I have a nearly nine year swath of programming jobs with only a month break in it to put on there. I didn't even make it to the commencement ceremony when I got out of school, I'd already been working for almost a month.
Really I just need to sit down tonight and finish this thing.
Dec 7, 1998 - present.
When it's written like that it almost looks like dates on a tombstone doesn't it.
Has it really been almost 7 years? It doesn't really feel like it, but then a whole lot of life can pass by when you're not really paying attention to it.
It's sort of amusing to look over the things that were on my last resume and decide what I should put on the next one.
I mean does it still matter that I was the top student in my high school for two years, or does the finishing with honours from bcit since then matter more? How about winning math competitions? Maybe I should leave that on, or maybe I should chop it off, who knows. I think the years I was in high school and the year long gap between grades 10 and 11 can safely go.
Something tells me I can leave off the paper route and the working at a corner store now that I have a nearly nine year swath of programming jobs with only a month break in it to put on there. I didn't even make it to the commencement ceremony when I got out of school, I'd already been working for almost a month.
Really I just need to sit down tonight and finish this thing.
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s_eldorado:
Keep the awards and accolades in! Make em realize just how freaktastically smart you are and then they'll just start throwing cash at you and hoping something cool happens.
eddie:
I think the only way you'd be losing it is if you didn't notice the change. It's a pretty huge difference!