Dumb it Down
I was talking to one of the women I’m working with the other day while we were sitting in the cafeteria having a coffee.
We ended up talking about family and parents, and as I was talking about my mother (not how much I hate her guts) and what she did in her life, like getting her Masters degree at night school, the other woman said something to me like, “oh, so that’s where you get it from, with all your education and courses”. 
Well I gotta tell ya, even though I know she’s seen my resume and online resume, I don’t consider my education to be anything too extensive. There’s a whole bunch of it, ya, and it’s all over the place with mucho stuff that interested me, but it’s not like I’m sitting here with a doctorate or something.
She was suggesting that I take some of that off my resume in order that people didn’t think I was overqualified. This was a big surprise for me, because when all these job interviewers have been talking about me being overqualified, I thought they were talking about my experience, not my education.
I proceeded to tell her that I had no idea how to “dumb it down” (any more than I have in another version of my resume). She had no suggestions as to what to remove either.
You can damned well be sure that if I took off English Major, the job I’m applying for would end up telling me that it was too bad that I didn’t have some kind of English background because they wanted someone to write stuff for them.
Yada yada, that’s the problem. Who knows what to take off and what to leave.
I didn’t even intend to talk about this. Not that I have something more interesting to talk about. Although my horoscope was right the other day. Nah, I just made it right.
Tonight I’m gonna drink copious amounts of beer and perhaps stay up past midnight like the good ol’ days, 4 weeks ago. 
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
My last resume revision was suprisingly painless. I just focused on getting the best stuff I could onto one page.
I majored in English too.
I cut out a lot, but I could not bring myself to cut my college newspaper experience.