One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.
There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.
When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
My entire career, I've been a worker.
If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.
There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.