Yup, I’m searching for a new job, again.  It has only been six months since I began working at my current job – but you know you KNOW when something doesn’t feel like it’s the right fit.  It’s a great company with almost endless opportunities, but..  I don’t feel at home here.  When I moved to San Diego for my freshman year of college, I got the same feeling.  It was never *right*.  Something was missing – and I never can figure out what that “something” is, when it comes to feeling this way.  Needless to say, I moved back after my freshman year.  When I moved to Arizona, I got that at-home feeling almost immediately.  I loved it there (minus the bugs, which I feel the need to mention every time I bring up Arizona), and I loved my apartment.  I never felt out of place there, and I absolutely loved spending cozy nights in my living room – doing nothing but eating ice cream and watching re-runs off of TBS.  Yes, yes, I did move back – but it wasn’t because I was unhappy or not fitting in.  It was for family reasons, and the fact that I’m an only-child whose parents treat me like I’m still 11 years old, and need them to be able to take steps across the street.   I love them though, and I hated seeing them so upset about me living further away and on my own.  Anywayzzz!  Back to the topic at hand.

I don’t fit in here at my current job.  I don’t really even love what I do.  I’m sure that a career change is in order – but where will I be led?  I have no idea.  Teaching?  Politics/News?  Marketing?  Paralegal?  All I know is, I like writing.   I’m not all that great at it, but I sure do like it.  I also like seeing reactions from people, based on something positive that i may have done for them.  I like things that relate to daily life, not things that are strictly limited to the technology/computer world.  That doesn’t strike my fancy, which is probably why I’m in this weird gray area of having a career in a subject that does nothing for me and wanting to get out so badly. 

So.. writing a resume.  Does anyone really love writing one?  Yes?  Send me a message.   I need to update mine, but I keep putting it off for later.  And later.  And then later.  Why do we dread writing about ourselves when it comes to a resume?  I think it’s because stinkin’ employers treat a resume like it’s your ticket to heaven.  So, we, as prospective employees, must conform. I mean, we want to get to heaven, right?  Right.  If I could just write one page about who I am, what I’ve done, and what I want to do – I would be golden.  But noooo.  We have to use fancy schmancy words to explain what is better described as it is!  I hate sugar coating.  And PC-ness.  And everything that a resume has become to *have* to be.  I want to be like, this is me.. take it or leave it.  If you’re looking for sugar coating, I’ll take my lemony-ness elsewhere.  Where they like lemons. 

So tonight, I will be spending three hours of my comfort time at home, on the agonizing task of formatting my resume to become this overly-glorified representation of me.