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Writing Your Resume

February 6, 2002

Reading is all about interpretation. Keep this in mind when writing your resume.

When people ask me about my background, where I've been, what I've done for a living, etcetera, one of my favorite stories to tell them is about having worked as a stripper for a couple of years.

It's true. When I was 18 years old, I was already sick of menial retail. Having few other skills to offer and no college degree, I took things into my own hands, went to Paris, and learned to be a stripper. Like any job, I found it difficult at first, but as my confidence improved, my performance improved. Within a year of my being hired, I found I could strip all night, work it and turn it, work and tumble, sheetwise, whatever you like. The money was good enough that I was able to save up enough to get to college, too.

Nevermind that I was a four-color print stripper (a stripper tapes down the negatives in registration for a page layout so that the image can be burned onto a photographically-sensitive press plate), and Paris was the name of the print shop where I worked the night shift. It's a great story at a bar. However, I try to make it less of a scandal on my resume.

Choose your words wisely; interviews can be awkward enough without having to explain why you're not wearing tassels.