How Do I Wrote Résumé (I Hate Work)
I told myself I'd write a new résumé, like, three months ago, and still haven't done it.
Like, I know all the basic Googleable shit about how résumés are constructed and the appropriate language to use and all that shit. But I also know that each résumé should be tailored to the specific job you are applying for, instead of just being a generic copy that you use to apply everywhere. I have no idea how to tailor my résumé when I have no idea where I want to apply, what kinds of industries interest me, or what kind of job I want. In fact, I don't really want to work at all tbh, but I guess I need to in order to earn money that I can then exchange for goods and services. The very concept of working, to me, sounds like doing bullshit that you don't intrinsically care about only as a means to an end to survive, and in our society, it causes most of your energy to be put into both your job and maintenance of yourself so that you can continue to work your job. You go home too tired to work on your hobbies or do things like write that novel or record that album or whatever it is you actually find fulfilling, so you just post on Netphoria until it's time to go to bed so that you can wake up tomorrow morning to go back to your job. Yes, I know that if you "dO wHAt yOu lOVe, yOu'LL nEVer WorK a dAY IN yoUr LIfE," but unfortunately, the vast majority of people who try to be artists or rockstars or astronauts or Spider-Man or whatever don't really succeed in either making it or being able to provide for themselves, so that's not an option for most of us.
There's also the fact that I have no idea how to market my skills on a résumé, since I took a humanities/liberal arts degree that was essentially just writing papers. Hell, other social science majors at my school have way more of a focus on statistics and research methods than mine did, so it's not like I even know how to do basic data analysis with Excel or something. Literally all I've done is read shit and then write about it. At least in other degrees, you might develop proficiency at an actual hard skill, be it mathematical ability, knowledge of how to use specific software like MatLab, knowledge of how to carry out certain scientific procedures like titrations or whatever through labs, even just using stats software. Yes, I know, I could write that I'm good at "critical thinking" and "problem-solving," but I'm sure literally every applicant who's taken literally any major believes themselves to be proficient at those things and has them on their résumé. Literally everyone in the world thinks they are "good at thinking." I don't even feel like I learnt to be a better "critical thinker" through my degree. I think it was more of a selection thing, where people who were already somewhat passable at being able to analyze shit and write intelligibly were successful enough at political science to continue, while those who found themselves out of their element decided to take a different major. I did okay because the degree was shit I could already do. I didn't develop any new competencies, I don't think.
Fuck, what is there to even look forward to in life? It's just bullshit like staring at a computer screen, trying to make a résumé to get a new job that you'll eventually hate as much as the one you have. And here I am complaining like a privileged suburban soyboy about "nOt hAVinG a jOb thAt MaKeS mE HapPy" when there are people literally starving or getting killed by cops in the streets. FUCK THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
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