[sdiy] OT: Job interview for the boy

[cyborgzero at comcast.net]

> 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".
>

Yep, and you end up *burnt-out*, which actually might have contributed
to your early heart problems. :(

Same thing happens to me, and they eat me up because, although I have
over 200 or so credits in various sciences, I am just finishing my
BSEE now. :(

WEll, good thing about it is that I will have a minor in just about
everything when I am done. :)

Rob