[sdiy] OT: Job interview for the boy

[Scott Gravenhorst]

cyborgzero at comcast.net wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Gravenhorst" <music.maker at gte.net>
>To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:04 PM
>Subject: RE: [sdiy] OT: Job interview for the boy
>
>> My record is a year and 3 months.  Broken only by a recent 3 month
>> contract (cut short by my heart attack).  I have some nibbles, but
>nothing
>> solid.
>>
>
>Holy crap! How are u holding up? I thought you were the vision of
>health too!
>
>Man, this scares me.. I know of 3 ppl now all around my age with the
>old ticker kicker.
>
>Okay, well, I gotta go start exercising now. :)

This was a big surprise for me as well, I'm only 49.  Admittedly,
sparse exercise and really bad food (fats and salt...) were the
daemons.  Being a diabetic, I really should have been more careful. 
Suffice it to say that history will not repeat itself, at least not by
my own hand.  The whole event was a downhill rollercoaster starting
with a mild heart attack showing "slightly elevated cardiac enzymes",
the prognosis was initially good with just medication or angioplasty
at worst.  After an angiogram revealed 4 severe blockages, the 3
surgeons agreed that only a quad bypass would be effective. 
Fortunately, this was my first heart attack and since I dealt with it
right away, I suffered only slight cardiac muscle damage.

>But, going without a decent job for a year can do that.. I am just
>glad they upped the unemployment benefits. :)
>
>I put in for a job at the office, and they said they had *nothing* in
>my field, at all..
>
>*All I can tell you is to come in once in a while, fill out your
>paperwork, and get your checks.*
>
>Thats what they told me.
>
>Gee, I feel better already. :) Sounds like they aren't even going to
>bother.. I was overqualified/overdegreed for *everything*. :)

This has been precisely my experience.  I have great interest in what
I do and learn both at work and home.  I have a resume that when
summarized spans 5 pages.  If I'm not told I'm overqualified, I'm told
that I look (on paper) like a "jack of all trades and a master of
none".  Nothing could be more false.  So, I've taken the advice of
several of my recruiters and I sit down and rewrite my resume for each
job app.  In a way, it's lying, because I was quite omni useful in all
of my positions for the last 15 years.  I have to tone it down and
appear as someone who has done just one or two things for a company in
order to convince managers that I know what I'm doing.  Oddly enough,
these same managers then recognize that my talents are far broader
than that resume portrayed and I wind up, yet again, as the guy they
come to when nobody else can get the job done, even when it's not in
"my field".

>Hightech like a trainwreck, all aboard the electronics express! Next
>stop, AFGHANISTAN!
>
>Rob
>
>
>

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