When I put together my first resume in college I described my job as a mover as “picked up and moved heavy objects without getting hurt.
Picked Up And Moved Heavy Objects Without Getting Hurt
My first real job was as a furniture mover when I was 16. I had done garden work for my grandfather the summer before and my brother and I had yard work for my father since I was 13 or 14 but this was my first real job. When it came time to put together a resume as I was graduating from college, “picked up and moved heavy objects without getting hurt” was the best description I could come up with.
“Try as we will, we cannot honestly recall our youth, for we have lost its main ingredient: suspense.”
Mignon McLaughlin
I came across a copy of that first resume over the weekend and tried to recapture the frame of mind I had when I wrote it. I couldn’t.
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
Mignon McLaughlin
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