And so the email goes... You've been tagged, so here it goes...copy and paste into a new email, delete my answers, replace with your own and send it back to me and to other friends
4 jobs you have had in your life: - Dance buyer, JB HiFi, Camberwell - Marketing Manager, FMR Records - Buyer, CD Fulfillment Australia, Shock Records - Senior Account Manager, Artisan Recruitment
4 movies you would watch over and over: - The Rocky Horror Picture Show - American Beauty - Monty Python And The Holy Grail - The Pirates Of The Caribbean
4 places you have lived: - Airport West - Melton - Toorak - Prahran
4 TV shows you love to watch: - The Simpsons - Futurama - Most Haunted - Doctor Who
4 places I have visited: - Sydney - London - Paris - Brisbane
4 websites you visit daily: - www.sayhey.co.uk - A Madonna forum one I can't remember the link to - www.ebay.com.au - www.rathergood.com - not everyday, but some days.
4 of my favourite foods: - Curries - Tuna Bake - Fish and Chips - 'Sunday Roast'
4 places I would rather be right now: - Out in Fawkner Park or the Botanical enjoying the sun - Window shopping down Chapel St - At home, cuddling the cats - Catching up with friends for a coffee
4 friends who I have tagged that I think will respond: - not entirely sure... times four.
This is a real CV - and a great example of how to NOT write a CV... and it gives you an indication of some of the mentalities we have to deal with.
Firstly, let me share with you the two opening paragraphs of his 21 page CV...
I xxx xxx am honoured & privileged to present myself as a member of the creative elite with high quality skills across a wide range of media. With the power of innovation & creative expression i am liberated. I am a strong perfectionist with highly sophisticated creative & communication skills. My work ethics are highly advanced and tuned to streamlined design & production efficiency. My work is considered a labour of love and I am motivated by the pursuit of supreme excellence. My reputation is of world class state of the art skilled professional in performance & achievement of high distinctions throughout my career.
As a graphic designer I have developed a broad range of professional skills which are critical to reliability, producing a high quality image to be proud of with an edge on power house marketing techniques to educate & motivate the clients & general market in their demand of leading edge product innovation to an active participation in the unique & inspiring energy that we have come to love most about the exciting fashion graphic design industry experience like no other.
Perfectionist... with terrible, terrible grammar and punctuation. (Yes, I do realise the irony that my own sentence is a sentence fragment...) Check out that second paragraph - it's all one sentence and doesn't overly make much sense by the end of the ramble. I know my co-workers have told me all my emails should be in point form or else I risk breaking out into War & Peace, but this guy makes me look positively concise! He then goes on to add:
My accredited skills as a creative genius have been awarded high distinctions consistently throughout my educational journey of discovery building a professional competitive direction in the information technology, fashion, advertising & entertainment industries.
As a dedicated dynamic graphic designer my unique style is at the cutting edge of innovation with a sophisticated sense of beauty, simplicity and quality with a high degree of dynamic excellence based on 7 years experience and a high level of creative intelligence. The core of my creative talent is a labour of love & is proudly established in a sense as second nature and so as I meet the challenges with confidence I can guarantee a strong professional attitude to install complete client satisfaction from concept to completion combined with an informative, stylish aesthetic & superior proficiency of productivity methods to be proud of to benefit one & all.
...and it just keeps getting better:
141 IQ creative intelligence
I am described as being very honest & modest as I am a gifted creative genius with an IQ of 141 out of 144 and rated in the top 2% of creative intellectuals world wide (as accredited by emode.com the leading authority on intellectual quotient testing).
The tag - he has no work. His email to us: Why is it a creative genius can't find work ?
Actually, I can't remember the last time I wrote an entry... but i'm suspecting it was a while back. And in that time... my word... A LOT has happened. In fact, there has been a few occasions where something has occured and i've thought, "This is going to be a bloody big blog when I get around to it..." And then I don't. And after a while, it all seems somewhat daunting. So, let's just do the Readers Digest version and say a lot has been happening lately. Some of it has been good. And some of it has been really bad. But at the end of the day, as I always say, i'd rather have the ups and downs that a seemingly boring routine existence.
The worst, well - Ant and I actually broke up for about three or four days there at one point. It was totally all over a misunderstanding, but it really did highlight so much more to me. For instance, it made me recognize that Ant is an emotionally driven individual, and being a logically driven individual, when Ant get's upset, there is literally no way to communicate with him. However, I think, with all things considered, the way we were able to work through it and talk means that we must be doing something right with this relationship, and it really has highlighted to both of us how much we truly love each other, care for each other, and can feel our world crumble without that other soul by our side.
It also made me think about the concept of reality... yes, I think we have established that it is not possible for me to go through any experience without coming out the other side with some philosophical take attached. In fact, as much as I know Ant sometimes feels frustrated by my fascination with philosophy, and feels that, if the conversation is 'heated', I talk to him like a 'patient', it has actually been my relationship with him that has heightened my understanding of philosophy even more. Even just in the sense that he operates and views the world in a totally different way to me means that I have to understand the level in which he sees things in order for me to work my head around it... which is, at the end of it all, a wonderful wonderful thing. But, anyway, back to me thinking about reality... and coming to the conclusion that reality is subjective, made up by our own personal interpretation via our senses. One persons take on any given situation might be vastly different to another persons take on that same situation, but it doesn't make their reality any less real. The fact is, perhaps many people's reality isn't as real as what we would like to all think, but just what our mind determines of the information it is given. Therefore, next time someone tells you to 'get real', let them know that it will only be as real as your senses allow them to be.
Besides, who is to say what is real and what isn't. I know a glass is a glass cause i've grown up being told this clear object that holds liquid is a glass. However, if I had not had that knowledge and just come across it, I wouldn't have known what the hell this thing was. But hey, that's a whole other thing...
All this has lead me to wanting to write again. I pulled up the half finished book I had on my computer called 'On Being' recently, and realised that David Knox was entirely right - it is a half baked dog's dinner of ideas and ramblings that really don't have any flow, consistency or ability to take a concept all the way through. I've started at scratch, and tend to feel the new version will be even less autobiographical, and more abstract - more based on feelings and not so much on experience - and probably still take several years for me to finish one half.
Work... achieved over 1000 hours in one week recently... and then did it again not more than a few weeks later. An all new benchmark for us, and something that i'm proud of.
Today... actually a bit ill - have a nasty chest cold and it kept me home from work today. To be honest, I found it very difficult to sleep last night, and so I was more exhausted this morning than anything.
Commonwealth Games start in Melbourne tomorrow but i'm feeling so apathetic about it. I know... how un-Melburnian of me. I've never been big on sporty things anyhow, although I recognize this is more than a sporty thing. However, I just can't seem to get excited about it at the moment, but with the opening ceremony tomorrow night, perhaps that might change.
Anyway, I should go and spend some time with my beautiful boyfriend. I feel that I sometimes don't give him enough attention, although he tells me not to be silly. But I do feel that every day, I should let him know how beautiful, attractive, and unique I find him, and how I couldn't imagine a day without him. A few years back, I wouldn't have understood... but the other night, when I was at home in bed ill and he was out, I was SO sad I couldn't be out cause I just wanted to see his big smiling face and look into his eyes and just share that joy with him. But anyway, I aim for there to be many more opportunities to do that to come.
