I applied for a job today.
Yes. I. Did.
The job is for a contract position as a photographer to photograph products for webkinz. You know, those little stuffed animals that all the kids are on? From what I can tell from the description, they’re looking for somebody that can photograph the stuffed animals, sort and color correct and file accordingly for use on the website. Not the most glamorous, but it would be a start. It’s also a contract position with a a start and end – so I could try out this whole working for a living thing again.
I saw the ad this morning, and thought: Heck, I could probably do that. Only one problem. I have no resume.
And, the no resume thing was really my stumbling block. I don’t think the LAST day job I applied for, I used a resume for . I sent an email, before email was everywhere and standard. Before the internet, or at very last on the leading edge. Anyway, the resume was my stumbling block
But, I managed to face my fears and I found a template with a word processing program that has the resume format down, I just needed to fill in the particulars. And the cover letter is no biggie for me. I write it pretty much as I’m writing here. Hi, I’m Jim and and my skillset is this. Call Me. If they don’t, their loss. 
That’s the big news of the day round here.I applied for a j-j-job.
It doesn’t matter even if I get this one. I have solved the resume problem. There will be other jobs.. that’s not the worry. I now have a resume I can fire off at will.
After that news: really – what news could top that?
And, murphy’s law being what it is: As soon as I hit send on the whole get a job thing, I check my stats and note that a few projects I’ve been working on are starting to show some promise, so I’ll still stick with those some more. I also have a few other ideas I’m going to implement and see if any of the mud sticks.
I’m happy to report that I’m up .76 as I write this. Quit laughing. Yesterday, and the day after and the day after have all been at $0.00 so I’ll take the .75 and run.
I really don’t know how I can beat today’s post. Maybe my $10,000 blog post earlier came close but this is definitely up there since I’ve started this site.
I guess if there’s a lesson learned today: And, really that’s the goal – learn from your mistakes, debt or otherwise: is that I was making the whole resume ‘problem’ bigger than it needed to be. It really wasn’t much of a problem in hindsight,but I was letting the problem become a problem instead of just applying myself to overcome said problem. (I just used the word ‘problem’ 3 times in one sentence).
I read something somewhere that your fear is far far greater than the worst result, in most cases. My fear was I didn’t know how to write a resume, any more than I knew how to knit a sweater. But in reality, I found a solution, and the fear goes away. The worse case: My resume isn’t as neatly polished as somebody else’s. But i sent it. They have it, and the ball is in their court. They’re not hiring me for my resume writing skills anyway. I’m still here to tell about it my resume writing, so maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
The biggest hurdle in success sometimes is you.
Jim applies for a day job.
News at 11.
I don’t know how I can beat this one.
Win the lottery, maybe. Or, wait, I do know. Get the Job. That would be the story to tell.
‘Til tomorrow.
PS. For those keeping score: It’s Day 72 of the debt freedom plan.
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