JAKE
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I spent about 7 hours this week working with my brother on his resume. 2 sessions of 3-4 hours each. That's when I thought of this. Because it was satisfying work. Even though most would find it tedious. It felt good to do my best to help make his resume as great as possible, even though the marginal improvements after some point probably won't matter, realistically. I was able to subconsciously suspend that reality until we were done and instead let myself believe that making his resume as great as possible was important and worthwhile. It feels good to do the absolute best you can on something without compromising for the practicality of the fact that it probably won't matter and, thus, is likely a waste of time. I sometimes feel like I'm a perfectionist soul trapped with a practical mind. The logic of the latter usually wins, but once in a while, the perfectionist overrides. This topic is complex and I don't have many words left in the cast so this is a good example. I won't be a perfectionist here.
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JAKE
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snippets cut from the above cast: My first rule about resumes is to realize that no one reads them and you should make it so that it can interest/impress in 4-5 seconds. Yet we spent hours refining all the bullet points after getting the bigger picture stuff right. , that any marginal improvement was worth the time spent to make it, within reason, but generally speaking, we spent the time , without moving on as your attention is called to the opportunity cost, even though that practical perspective is almost definitely right
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