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Monster offers a resume writing service. You can submit your resume to them and they will magically transform any irrelevant or non essential job skills and work history into something that employers will be interested in hiring you for. Well, at least that is what they would have to do with mine. The husband thinks it could be a good tool for updating his own resume and decided to throw my name in the hat for a resume make over as well. My response. "Now why would someone like me hire a professional to work on my resume?" As far as I'm concerned my value in the job market is on the low end and no amount of resume doctoring is going to change that. I am not up and coming young professional with a bright career in [insert high power job title here]. At this point in my life aside from some unforeseen or catastrophic circumstances I really have no intention of even looking for another job. Getting the one I have wore me down enough.
The thing is, I have never had much luck when it comes to jobs. Perhaps I sell myself short. Maybe I haven't tried hard enough, looked in the right places or marketed myself well enough. I am just not that person who managed to snag that great job or passes their resume to a friend who knows someone at such and such company. I never knew what I wanted to be and I still don't. My first job out of College was in Claims. Oh, how I despised that job. I wasted years in an industry that I no longer wanted to be in and without any other job skills I knew I was headed for a major salary cut but I had no choice but to move on. Federal jobs have good benefits. Their application processes is detailed, cumbersome and time consuming but I kept at it hopeful that if I was persistent enough something would come my way. Over a year of that and I never even got an interview. Ever. Thank goodness I finally got a break and got hired where I'm at now. I am happy here. More money would be nice but you can't have it all. I still don't know what I want to do so getting a Master's seems pointless.
In my shock of learning that a resume expert was going to be contacting me I forgot to thank MJ for being thoughtful enough to even do that for me in the first place. New job opportunities just seem to fall in his lap and he is well qualified so he kinda has an entirely different outlook on the whole job and career thing then I do. I am so glad that MJ saw other qualities in me that made him want me. The employment gods may not shine upon me but the love gods did when they sent me him.
It's funny how I have this child like anything is possible mentality when it comes to modeling or winning that dream vacation but not when it comes to my career prospects. Without direction or a passion for something practical I am lost. Not everyone is meant to have a career and I may never make a living by following my bliss. So, instead I will keep content with doing what I love which is writing what I want and modeling when I can. Instead of wracking my brain trying to figure out what I want to be, I finally just decided to be who I am.
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