Today I have been working on my resume. I'm not really looking for a job per se, but if I'm going to do this whole writing thing for money eventually, it would be nice to have a current resume. Plus, I am meeting with someone tomorrow for networking and would like to have something to hand off.
I enjoy staying home with the kids and really don't want to mess with that too much but if someone offers me a decent job working, say, no more than 10 hours a week...I'll consider it. Five hours a week would be perfect! Know of any high paying 5 hours a week writing or marketing jobs around here?
What's that? You think I'm asking for too much?
Updating a resume that is almost 10 years old is a funny thing. It would assume that you really remember details of your life 10 years ago. I don't remember things one year ago. And unfortunately I did not have the foresight to "update" my resume when I left my last job to stay at home with my first brand new baby. And now I cannot remember anything that I did at that job.
This is how the conversation with my interviewer is going to go:
"Tell me a little about what you did as Director of Marketing for the museums."
"Well, I spent the first few months scared out of my mind that I had made a bad decision since my joining the staff was not very welcomed for internal reasons and my subordinates were bitter and angry that they did not get the job and never forgave me for that even though I did not know them prior to accepting the position. Next I dealt with a very dysfunctional work atmosphere that I had never encountered before and spent most of my time dealing with that and learning how to navigate crazyland. To top it off, I experienced my first pregnancy that apparently came with overwhelming nausea that caused me to sit at my desk with a blank stare for a better part of the day and wonder if I was going to die. I'm sure I did many wonderful things in between there, but frankly, I don't remember much about it because I lost my mind and most of my memory with having three children."
You totally want to hire me, right?
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Too funny!
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