Small doopy changes

[prog]

I've been getting a lot of calls from tech recruiters. One caught me yesterday morning while I was still sipping coffee, and before I'd gotten started with anything important, and so I chatted with him for a few minutes. I learned that he found me by just Googling a few key terms, which led him to my resume on jmac.org. When I told him I wasn't available for work he joke-groaned with disappointment because I looked so perfect for the job. This is all a nice ego boost, but at the same time I don't need the extra interruptions, so I've just updated my resume with a mind to deflect them.

Was of two minds about splitting my most recent consulting period into two entries, with the formation of Appleseed as the split-point, but decided to go with a single entry and making it clear in the summary that I sell my expertise through the company now.

While I was in there I updated the jmac.org about page, which still had a lot of pre-millenial cruft on it. The opening paragraph used to suggest that my entire online presence was on jmac.org, when in fact it's been spread across a wide cloud of domains, just like with everyone else, for years now. I only use the domain for miscellany that doesn't fit anywhere else, now. So it says that now. Also admitted that I'm now using a commercial hosting service, after eight years of the server equivalent of couch-surfing.

Comments

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I think a single entry is best. I expunged and entire corporate lifetime from my CV a while back because the complexity of MyCompany->MergedCompany->MyCompany was confusing and my role was basically the same throughout, which is what I think matters to most people reading it.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

I had difficulty summing up my various business ventures into a understandably form on my resume, so I ended up lumping them all together and talking about them collectively, as they were both concurrent and related.

your couch-surfing was never unwelcome.

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

If they don't sound scummy and if they have any good Perl positions out there, feel free to direct them my way and maybe you can get a finder's fee.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Sure thing.