Thursday 21 December 2017

CV's in Various Forms

      A few years ago, I was asked to help someone re-write their Curriculum Vitae, in which I noted he had happily described himself as being a member of a Gun Club, further down he said he was; "personally in touch with God" and finally, he hoped to one day; "to change the world for the better!"
      This one was easy to change, though nothing could be done for his certain other personality disorders. And there were many others, whom just needed a few simple changes to their script, to help them in their intended career directions. The ones I found the most amusing or just downright disturbing, were and are the simple and extreme fabricators, who ended up believing their own tall tales. These are genuine personality disorders in overdrive; the man who had some past working in the Air Space Industry, job title, "pipe fitter" it later turned out he'd really been running an international airline! Also a certain woman whom is still working in fashion as a company director and has been doing such for the past thirty years, which covers the period when she was a secretary even before she was sleeping with her employer! Next a very interesting character who worked on a car production line, but had since progressed in another field and as the years went by, he reveled to me the obvious he had actually been ruining British Leyland? And finally, although others spring readily to mind, there is a classic case of the young woman, still a friend incidentally, whom had some experience as a legal secretary, and then through various job related practices, had become a Director and Lawyer. 
      My part in their rise to power, well I just filled in the forms, "I was only following orders!"       

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