I don’t have much of a background in anything, but here’s some history anyhow… it’s actually the foundation of a writing project, something of an auto-bioraphy, but more to show folks how stupidly people try to advertise themselves for employment opportunities… i despise resumes:
--- 1981 thru 1991 ---
* moved/shoveled snow from driveways and walkways of neighbors
* moved/delivered newspapers for people that lived a bit further away than my neighbors, halfway accross town
** graduated middle-school from a large suburb in MA
*sold cut flowers in an abandoned lot beside a busy road, hated it
* washed dirty dishes and floors, also moved trash to dumpster at a restaurant
* moved dirty dishes from restaurant tables to dish-washing stations at a different restaurant
* moved dirty linens and trash from various locations within a hospital, also washed and waxed their floors
* moved dirt and sod for landscaping company, i was fired within weeks
* food-prep, dish washing, cashier, cook, and italian-ice server at a micro-restaurant within a shopping mall
** graduated high school from a large MA suburb, low GPA, also passed Intro to Psych 4 credit class at local community college senior year because i wouldn’t have enough points to graduate HS that year otherwise
* employed by DoD, US Army from 09-1987 thru 07-1991, combat engineer with a bit more training... had a relatively quick and easy deployment on the ground in ODS
--- 1992 thru 2020 ---
* tennis product-specialist/retail sales at a few locations for a small chain of golf/tennis stores, also strung and customized tennis racquets, also learned to build customized golf clubs (eventually developed a respectable tennis and golf game), sub-contracted for some private tennis lessons
** i tried a semester at a state college for biology and chemistry (i thought i wanted to be a PCP), i got more out of English Composition than anything else, abruptly ended my ‘academic career’ before the first semester finished, in fact i quit shortly after the ‘withdrawal date’, so i officially have a 0.0 gpa
*** sometime between working at the golf/tennis store and trying college i had a 'religious conversion' to a semi-generic form of Christianity (life-changing come to Jesus sort of thing), it’s actually what led to me quitting college, i realized that i wasn’t meant to be a PCP
* warehouse 'stocking/re-stocking' books (the very heavy kind) during the overnight shift for a large book distribution company (a humbling start to my Christianity)
* customer-support/service/order-entry for the same large book distributor, its where i met my wife-to-be (married almost 26 yrs now) while working in the call-center
* tried working at a frozen food company as direct sales, i hated it after a couple of weeks, and the book distributor took me back for a temporary basis
* editorial assistant (eventually mgr) for a SaaS tech company that specialized in digitally organizing previously published materials for online search/research, i started learning about computers and networks there
* pre & post sales technical support for the same SaaS tech company
** passed one crummy micro-soft certification test which enabled me to work part time at a start-up technology company, which evolved into a ‘managed service provider’, i did that part-time while working at the Saas company
** also worked part-time as independent contractor cutting grass for a landscaping start-up company that dissolved a few years later
* sales associate for that same SaaS tech company, eventually fired/laid-off after second year of sales, worked exactly 12 years at that SaaS ‘publishing’ company
* worked part-time for that start-up MSP tech company that i mentioned earlier
* customer support for a different SaaS technology company that emphasized spacial/geographic/demographic products, got fired after speaking my mind to senior level folks about simple things that they did not understand, like respectful decency, team-work, and not being lazy
* worked part-time again for the MSP tech company that i worked at previously
* customer service (and ‘whatever’ guy) for a truck repair company owned by my father and his cousin, and the huge retarded dog named bear
** healthcare doctors prescribed and modified various medications a few times during this period, some changes were a bit helpful, others were more problematic than helpful
* firearm sales for an outdoor outfitting retail company
* worked part-time (again) for the MSP tech company, got fired after speaking my mind to senior level folks
* operations supervisor/mgr for transportation company, my emphasis was training and maintaining a fleet of delivery drivers for a start-up same-day online shopping/delivery service, I eventually resigned due to moral/ethic problems that i observed, i developed hyper-tension by the time i left that job
* sales guy at a local firearm and archery store
* sub-contractor hard-scaping/landscaping for private home-owner
* sub-contracted apprentice for small electrical contractor, it beat the crap out of my middle-aged body, but learned a lot there
--- 2020 covid-19 reaction period ---
* unemployed stay-at-home dad for my remote learning students
** weened off of four Rx’s that were no longer ‘helping’ me (feel much better now)
* sub-contractor for odd jobs by local small business owners
* part-time sitter and mentor for two remote schooling children, and their distracting puppy too
* started christopher.news website as a therapeutic ‘journaling’ outlet/blog)
* currently unemployed partially disabled stay at home dad, still doing christopher.news, and still sub-contract handyman for local small business owner, and working on multiple projects and some publications for future release, two are pretty close now.
^ many certifications, awards, achievements... none of them are relevant and probably all out-dated, they just helped with the jobs that i once held—they suggest things like, i can string a tennis racquet pretty well, i can administer certain life-saving techniques, i can blow things up, i can help with certain computer issues, i can shoot certain guns, i know how to hunt safely, i was allowed in certain locations and could consume top-secret info, i could use overly-heavy equipment to breath and swim underwater, i could jump out of planes at lower altitudes, i could drive in dangerous conditions, people appreciated some of my actions… etc., nothing much useful for now… my most prized award/achievement was created from scratch by people who know me the most, there were multiple certificates (and t-shirts too) all stating that i’m ‘the world’s best dad’, at least i was for a season of life… credentials are interesting, they speak to certain levels of understanding, but they never tell you the full story of anyone, in my case it’s best to assume that i have no credentials, don’t understand anything too thoroughly—except things i’m interested in, but have a capacity to learn new things in short order, and can use creativity to think and operate outside of most boxes… sometimes i’m the village idiot, other times i’m the smartest guy in the room, but it’s best to assume nothing about me, other than i have an eclectic employment history which makes me the perfect candidate for absolutely nothing… i’m done advertising and selling my experience and achievements, none of it counts for much really, and this resume ought to suggest as much.
^^ i have a ton of hobbies, interests, and responsibilities, none really worth mentioning, but i do love to read and write
^^^ as stated above, no horns to toot, life presented many opportunities during different periods, none of them seem relevant now, so why not write… God bless — ct
continuing this book outline here: https://www.christopher.news/old-news/employment
Nice. That all seems lovely to me.