Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Resumes of Life

It's not that the job that you had at that major show fifteen years ago didn't help make you who you are now. It's just that right now, it doesn't matter.

It's not that it doesn't matter that you wrote this or edited that. It's just not that relevant right now.

It's not that you need to erase everything you've done. But for now, you've just got to press "delete" more often.

It's not that they don't care that you've done a lot of things. It's just that they don't necessarily care about most of the things that you've done.

It's not that you have to forget your former life. You just have to refrain from detailing it to people to whom it doesn't matter.

It's not that taking it off means it never happened. It just means it won't help the next thing happen.

Rewriting--really rewriting--your resume can make you feel as though a part of you has died, or at least has drifted away. But it is in our being willing to focus on the living parts, and willing to wave goodbye to the ships that have sailed, that we find our new selves. And that we introduce people to the person in us who is willing to glance back, but is willing, and able, to move ahead.

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