My current resume is a lie.
I've worked in so many different jobs, in different places, for different things, room + board, money, health insurance to name a few, that to put it into a resume would read more like the description of some wandering vagabond's exploits, than as a promise of work reliability, i.e. good monkey skills.
So...
Where does that leave me?
I am wondering if I started an entirely new resume, and looked into entirely new work, what would come of it.
Which is to say, I am suspicious of my current resume's ability to truly communicate what I believe I have that would be of value to someone's organization; to leverage said abilities, skills, knowledge-bases and then create that message in the form of some document.
Here's the deal:
What I've actually done:
Work History Breakdown
1998-1999
Carwash in Soquel
-move to Santa Barbara to be with Justine
1999-2000
Unemployed in Santa barbara
-move to San Diego with Justine
2000-2000
Kinkos in San Diego
2000-2001
-move back to santa barbara, sbcc,
Kinkos in Santa Barbara
-get into SFAI
2001-2005
-move to San Francisco, CA with Justine, Kiaran, Sara
@ SFAI Fulltime student
live on loans from Jean/Justine, and school grants
Worked in New Genres Department (part time)
Started first stint at Rental Express Video
2005-2006
Unemployed
Worked odd freelance jobs
Justine Supported me
2006-2007
Justine Supported me
few random freelance jobs, started 2nd stint at Rental Express
2007-2008
Rental Express Video
-leave SF, travel throughout CA looking for alternative work opportunities
2008-2009
-Live in Isla Vista CA
UPS driver helper, random labor gigs: built trailhead in Los Padres, worked in desert center, CA @ jojoba been farm,
Received Unemployment Insurance
-Live in Santa Barbara, CA
2009-2010
move to Oakland, CA with Keelan
2009-2011
Unemployed
2011-
What’s next?
What I use on my resume:
EXPERIENCE
Technical Consultant, Video Production, Santa Barbara, Bay Area CA 2008-present
Freelance video consultant assisting with color correction, camera advice, and photographic & creative look concerns. Clients include: David Hutt Productions as a technical consultant, as well as provided design and creative consultation to Globtrox Productions primaries
Video Technician, Rental Express Video, San Francisco, CA 2005-2008
Chief Technician responsible for the maintenance of $1M inventory of broadcast High Definition & Standard Definition video components, company vehicles and support equipment. Technical duties included gear delivery, camera chain construction, Flypack set-up, Routers, Switchers, monitoring and equipment Set & strike
Production Assistant, Self-Employed, San Francisco, CA 2002-2005
Worked with a wide variety of clients including Photon Creative, Tom Donald Films, Ubisoft, among others. Duties included pre-production set, gaffing, lighting, and tele-prompt operation. Post-production duties included audio sweetening, video editing, motion graphics design and rotoscoping
Technical Monitor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2003-2004
Assisted students with audio and video equipment concerns and tutorials, as well as software (Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, ProTools, among others). Additional duties included studio up-keep, gear check in and inventory control
Computer Services Lead, Kinko’s, San Diego, Santa Barbara & San Francisco, CA 1998-2000
Responsibilities included computer maintenance and upgrades on both Apple and PC platforms. Assisted customers with design software concerns to streamline computer time usage and complete time sensitive projects expediently
EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, New Genres.
SKILLS
Apple and PC systems administration & software installation.
Standard Definition video component operation and set up: switchers, routers, decks, TC generators, teleprompt operation
Familiarity with HDCAM, P2 media, DVCAM, miniDV, BetaSP, Digibeta. Streaming video, codecs.
Software proficiences: Adobe Photoshop CS, InDesign, Avid Express, Final Cut Pro, MS Office Suite, Open Office.
Hmmm...
pretty much bullshit. Which is to say, a resume.
This is an on-going thing. Going back years into this blog will reveal my difficulties with finding my fit in the work world. Maybe I am just a grifter. Maybe my job is never to have a job. To figure out how to never work, period.
Sounds like a rationalization and yet, there it all is.
Regardless, what I am realizing more and more, is that I want it all.
To be free enough to travel the world and secure enough to have a home to come back to when I need to rest.
I want to take my perceptions international. I want to engage in conversations that are global in scope. With people from places that are outside the United States. In places outside the United States. I want to get a clear understanding of our abundance in this country. I also believe that it comes at a price. I would like to experience other cultures in other countries and talk to people who are native as well as other travelers about what they believe. I want to share my beliefs and engage with intelligent discourse about how to help the world orchestrate a future that benefits our global community; regional is global.
So what do I have going for me?
I am single. Male. White. 37 years old. I have no dependents. I have a college degree from a prestigious art school. I am articulate. Open minded. I can work in many different fields. I have broad general knowledge and very specific expert knowledge. I am creative, intelligent and in good health. I like to see new places, I am interested in global culture and how much more similar we are than different. Yes, we are clearly diverse, but that diversity is a collection subtle, minor differences in what comprise the whole of what we truly all are: Human.
This is a rambling post.
I am fundamentally unsatisfied with accepting that working some job, JUST to keep some apartment JUST to work some job is enough.
Maslow's hierarchy comes to mind...
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