Or you'd be welcome in Portland, too. Good luck!

"try Craigslist, once you figure out which of those hugely varied skills you want to use? "\


Good advice.

When I was first starting out I had on my resume "artist, illustrator, copywriter, art director".

In the course of interviews, in one day, 3 people from 3 different companies told me... "If I'm looking to hire an art director I'll hire an art director if I'm interested in hiring a copywriter, I'll hire a copy writer... what kind of job are you looking for?"

I went back home, re-wrote my resume to concentrate on one job title.

You have to make things easy in the hiring process.


ALSO: If you send your resume out to the giant black holes like monster.com make sure that you have "keywords" at the top of your resume so that when the resume is searched, yours will pop up.

Best of luck!

Who knows, maybe she hasn't heard of Craigslist if she's from a small town or something. There are places where Craigslist is basically useless due to low volume, not like it is here..... And she was asking about the "best way". In my opinion, Craigslist is the best way. I think you're reading a "f-u" into it that's not there.

....or maybe I was just responding with something so that her thread stays up near the top, so hopefully someone who knows of a job opening for her would see it. How do you know?

So quick to criticize!

**Rhino puts on his three-times-promoted-over-engineers-because-he-did-the-job-a-hundred-times-better 'game face' for Loki's benefit, adjusts the time on his wrist chronograph to be exact, triple checks his regimental tie over white Oxford collar shirt, and looks like the field badass in charge (clean hard hat with fresh Dymo label tape in front saying 'Rhino" , too)**

Loki, here's where you and I part company, paisan. I've got misfits and screw-ups on my crews, too. What you've got to have if you want to get hired is DRIVE. We had an interview board a month and a half ago for a new employee that involved checking out each potential hire's credentials. We had 7 Masters' and 3 PhDs in the mix. We didn't hire the PhDs. We hired the guy who not only had a Masters' but an MBA as well. To quote him directly from the interview, "I want my learning to be continual and lifelong". No complaints from day one.Accepts ALL offered and required training, and brings things out from training and puts them to work on the job. A self-starter. Reports in regularly and ASKS QUESTIONS.

This is all good.

Except for the part where he takes my job due to his competence and drives me into early retirement.

Evil doesn't get hired. You just have to be a go-getter.

It's not really that way, actually. The idea that merit / competence / ability will place you in a position is quaint, and laudable, but untenable. Most people that think otherwise speak from anecdote, or relate about their current or past working environments... beyond the basic minimum level of capability and quality (can speak, doesn't smell like poop), being highly skilled is a detriment / obstacle to being hired in any given position, all else considered. Most polymaths learn to pretend to be stupid, like the herd, and tone down productivity to a level that is commensurate with that of the average herd member. It's a matter of individual self-preservation that helps everything in our world suck a little bit harder, a little bit more, each and every day.

Mostly it's because of morale, though; it's not technically the boss' fault that polymaths and overachievers are bad for the crew's headspace... but it does seem to be something that could be worked out a little better in theory - from elementary school onward the gifts of many polymaths are tragically turned toward *limiting* success and *hiding* ability (because no one likes to be hated & alone).

Anyway. I guess an extreme example got caught up in my mind as a main topic. But our lady does seem to have the earmarks. Check out how she scaled her verbiage to the mean BM-level of mentality. That's some budding polymath Jedi shit, right there.

I caught that too. She never got to the point. Everybody just assumes she's the one job hunting which she probably is. But She's going to have more trouble getting one if she seems desperate, panics, or tries too hard.

Take my advice and start drinking heavily.