Pouting, Raging, Kicking Walls

[rinue]

When you look back on my life as a whole, there are only really two things that I've done consistently over the course of 22 years, a dozen moves, and six or seven majors. Those things are:

1. Writing.
2. PR.

I do these things to such an extent that I tend not to think of them as unique talents so much as a natural way of going about a project. From pre-kindergarden to the present day, I have been the marketer of any group collaborative effort. I'm the presenter. I'm the one you have talk to the newspapers. I'm the one you have write the articles and the brochures. Sometimes this is only an assignment for a class. Other times, I'm working on a city-wide or even an international level. I can make you love something you think you hate, because I'm incredibly good at what I do.

So why the fuck can't I write a goddamn resume?

In the past six years, I've done a lot of interesting things. I've helped found 2 newspapers. I've written grants for a couple non-profits. I've produced and directed half-a-dozen short films. I've performed sophisticated ethical analyses. I've worked on I-can't-count-how-many plays. I've had a booth at a trade show at the Special Olympics. I've composed music for plays, radio spots, chamber groups, folk guitar, short ballets. People pay me for my poetry and clubs waive cover charges, buy me drinks to show up and make interesting conversation. I've made money in some of the most notoriously difficult fields without breaking a sweat. I receive fan-mail almost every day.

When I look at my resume, it seems that I am a self-inflated flake with no real experience.

I've spent my entire life in search of the interesting, accomplishing the impossible. I've spent my life a step ahead of the system, exceeding all competition,
and nobody is ever going to hire me.

Comments

I'd be glad to help

[kiunedd.livejournal.com]

I've been doing resumes on the side for over a dozen years. Email it to me, and I'll see what I can do.

Re: I'd be glad to help

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Thanks. A lot of my problem is not knowing what should be on it - my experience is varied, non-traditional, and mostly unpaid freelancing. I have no idea how to condense it; I have enough trouble describing it. They're mostly short one-or-two-month projects with organizations that no longer exist. Not to mention that I've spent all of my life as a full-time student. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do with all of the information.

-Romie

[deche.livejournal.com]

and nobody is ever going to hire me.

Basically how I feel too

[valancy.livejournal.com]

And writing me. :D 'course, most resume receiving people are lacking in humor and good taste and would not realize the importance of that.

Goobers.

I firmly believe you will get an extraoridinarily cool position. More soon. Love you.

[valancy.livejournal.com]

fan mail every day?

*sighs in groany envy*

;)

[(Anonymous)]

But that hardly matters cause youuuuuu . . . can speak french!
Le Penguins!

-C

[(Anonymous)]

And can I just say one more thing about the Starlight Vocal Band?

-C

[tillytilly.livejournal.com]

lets open a cafe

[rinue.livejournal.com]

This should go very well, since (as Chad pointed out in another comment) I speak French, so we can give all our coffees really pretentious names.

[rufustehshinra.livejournal.com]

*pats you* Fan mail? Lucky lucky lucky you! I never get fan mail. *sadness* Um... Val told me if I noted you here, you'd see it and then you'd be all like "hey! It's Manda!" and you'd get back with me. (I have stuff I need to run by you, when you get the chance.)

Anyway, the best way to get in touch with me is to leave a note in my livejournal. (http://www.livejournal.com/~quidditchbitch)

Adios!

Manda^^

[adamas.livejournal.com]

I've spent my entire life in search of the interesting, accomplishing the impossible. I've spent my life a step ahead of the system, exceeding all competition...

Well, this is the problem, right here: The system expects typicality; typically such typicality fits a chronological resume format. When you break the mould, thereby eschewing the system's way of doing things, you can't expect them to welcome you with open arms. Mediocrity is rewarded blindly. Excellence is only rewarded through networking. Good luck, girl. You deserve something great.