The Resume Of The Unemployed!

Feb 26 '04 (Updated Jan 25 '05)    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line In The United States Of America No one should be Unemployed! What is the employer's problem?! Why won't they start hiring?!

[_ UPDATE JAN. 25, 2005 _]
[_ I have a great full-time job now. I work with a lot of nice people. Things are a lot better for me now.
To All Of You that wrote me messages and wished me well,
I wanted to say "Thank You", "Very Much!" _]

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It is BAD for me to keep dealing with my resume. For over Twenty-one months now!
Twenty-one months of forced "self study"-"independent study", I have discovered a lot!
Forced because it just happens when there is nothing else to think about.

Anyone that has not had to do it with no success for as long as
I have would not understand that "It Wears You Down"!

I got tired of reliving the past months ago, each time I have to re-read
my resume. (I was sick of it after 12 months!)
Since I have to read it every time I send it out because I have to adjust
it almost each time to make it "read to" the requirements of the job
that I am applying to.
All my resume does is remind me of what I used to do and of all the things
that it seems no-one will let me do again!

I have a great memory for history & my own history!
Reading my resume all the time only makes "Everything" come back to the
forefront of my mind!
All the memories of my work history flood back into my mind!
They are mostly BAD ones! The few good ones are overwhelmed and outnumbered
by all the bad ones.
Example: All the good company party memories are wiped out by the death threat that one
co-worker made in front of witnesses!
Each and every time somebody wronged me at work is there, I can smell, hear and see it!
The only thing that used to keep my mind on the good stuff and off the bad, was work!
Now there is no work to keep my mind off the bad stuff!

Sometimes I do not want to go near this machine / resume / job applications
and it is exactly like it has "burned" me before.
It is just like a "learned response".
Ouch! Do that and it hurts! You learn don't do that!

YES, I have to make myself deal with all this stuff all the time and sometimes it is
harder than others and really a lot harder than other times!
Sometimes I have to break from these "cursed things"** and I do not turn it on for a while.

**cursed things= machine (pc) / resume / job applications.

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