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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : DREAM-The Resume"

DREAM-The Resume

I had submitted my art resume to someone and they had returned it back to me with a bunch of corrections, as if they were grading a term paper. I was looking over the corrections along with some other people who claimed to be artists, most of which were retired hobbiests. I had put certain items in tables with boxed-in rows to highlight them, and one of the women told me never to do that. I looked at her askew and asked her why, and she said it should never be done in a resume. I sized her up and down and evaluated her to be very old fashioned, conventional and prissy, so I decided she mostly wears shoes with buckles, or pumps, hence my statement to her: I told her, "I've been doing desktop publishing more times than you've tied your shoes. And a boxed-in table is perfectly acceptable to add to any piece of print including a resume." She kept disagreeing with me, but she didn't want to hear my point of view, so I followed her into a bathroom explaining it from another standpoint. I was going to explain why the boxed in rows were easier for someone with astigmatism to follow as opposed to reading something without the boxed-in rows or even leaders. I asked her if she had poor eyesight. She was not wearing glasses, but she could have been wearing contacts--I couldn't tell. She replied that she did. I asked her if she had astigmatism. She responded like she didn't even recognize the word, but then said she did have it. I could tell she was lying, and I think I woke up sighing and huffing and puffing in disgust.

3 Comments

Maybe she wants to scan in your resume...? But my resumes are in tables (solid lines) - no in rows but still in tables. Guess I shouldn't have been employed...

Posted by Jane @ 05:20:2002:02:16 PM CST

Was the woman an artist or an English teacher? I find it annoying when people with no real background in writing become self proclaimed experts.

Posted by Leann @ 05:20:2002:02:48 PM CST

I don't think she was an artist or a writer...just a self-righteous dabbler who probably never even had to write a resume herself because whatever she got in life was through the good old gals club.

I hate writing resumes anyway...hate hate hate it.

Bad dream.

Posted by Ann @ 05:20:2002:03:28 PM CST

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