Fair Play
On the job hunt
Looking for a job after entrepreneurship (and probably in general) is a psychically discordant activity. Self-employment requires so much audacity, delusion, blind optimism and do-everything scope that to pipette one’s accomplishments and experiences into an online application is at least dumb at most insulting. LinedkIn’s industry code drop is minimizing and ineffective. It’s like asking me to choose a favorite pair of shoes. They have different functions for different moments as do the parts of my experience that work together to, you know, do work. I don’t wear suede flats when it’s raining.
Sure, there is a long list of careers that I am definitely unqualified for (ex. agriculture, medicine) but I am not solely a professional in retail, marketing, technology, entertainment nor administration but I can do lots of jobs in these categories. Probably more but I got bored scrolling the list! I get that it’s for taxes and the census or whatever but anti establishment is so built into me that I run with it as an example of greater societal issue. (Self) optimization is in opposition of self actualization.
Of course of course, we are not the sum of our resumes alone. There were sunlit grassy meadows and held hands and cathartic weeping woven into all we’ve ever done as people alive who also work. The drop down rubs because I’m having an internal conflict about work, obviously.
