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I've not had to lie on my CV (resumé for all you 'merkins) for a while, but way back when I was a teenager and C was a cool programming language, I listed it as one of my skills.

My new boss was remarkably nice about me spending my first week's employment reading a "how to program in C" book.

(, Thu 6 Jul 2006, 15:55)
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Not just CV's
I have a tendency when dealing with such dull and tedious activities such as writing a CV to have one of two responses. I either become extremly sarcastic and bitter about the whole procedure (a good example being my GCSE Biology conclusion. I had become so disulusioned with the whole process of finding how great an effect osmosis had on bits of potato, that my closing statement read "At long last, mankind will finally know how much salt water goes into a soggy potato chip.") or, I get bored to the extent that I set myself some inane task, like in my latest CV, writing movie stories into it.

In the past, I have listed the entire montage sequence of Rocky as my hobbies, and my motto was a line from "Eye of the Tiger.".

Being that I'm a lazy begger, I have very little to place in the box for previous experience, and so usually relate to my short film project which kind of counts. Of course, I was subject to the usual 'inflation' of achievement, so writing a script and vaugly telling people to do it became "Project Management from the point of concept creation to realisation." As I recall, once I copied a recent winner of best director speech. You see, my CV's are more fun to read. If you look twice, you will see that a lot of it is infact an homage to cinema.

To this day, I remain completly unenployed.
(, Mon 10 Jul 2006, 14:04, Reply)

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