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People on Paper


As I attempt to survive this summer I find myself filling out lots and lots of paperwork.

There is the job application paperwork which includes things like name, address, previous address, address before your previous address, last 100 places you've worked and the skills you used at those places, references from people who cannot be related to you or know you on a professional level, personal level...or any other level...

Once you've gotten someone to hire you, you're called a "NEW HIRE." You have "New Hire" training, "New Hire" codes to get into buildings and of course "New Hire" packets of paperwork to fill out. This includes questions like, "During work hours, if you slip and crack your head open, do you want the option of seeing your own personal physician, or will you be okay seeing ours? I don't know, I'll be unconscious wasn't one of the options. Then of course there is the on going document called the resume. This is supposed to give a brief insight into who you are, where you've been and where you'd like to end up. If you want a job anywhere, a resume needs to be provided. I have a few. One is titled Teacher Resume, another Restaurant Resume and another (although it has never been successful in attaining a position) Office Jobs Resume...probably a disguised blessing, ADHD kid in a cubical has to be a recipe for disaster.

I've been thinking lately...What does all this paperwork have to say about who we are? If it's all supposed to tell some company why they should hire us, I'm pretty sure mine is failing...although I have nailed down some jobs, uh thank you very much. What I mean by failing is that it is not saying the greatest of things!
Think about it...

If the address/previous and even more previous address question is to establish that I'm established...au contraire! I have moved just about every year for the past 7 years, this includes stinky dorm halls. If anyone looked even a little deeper than that, in regards to this address inquiry, they would see that ya know what...I don't always pay rent on time. So as far as a prospective hire, you've got a flaky transient on your hands!

As far as the jobs/previous jobs/previous previous jobs question....how many families can one gal nanny for? Did she keep getting canned or what? (Of course not, although if families fired nannies for eating their Sun Chips and watching Sex and the City DVD's during nap time, I definitely would have been!)

It's starting to make sense that getting a job is all about knowing the right people. Knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone that can get you an interview is key. I mean, a sparkling personality is definitely going to win 'em over more than a document proving 24 years of instability, right!

I am thankful for all the people in the world who can see beyond paper!
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