Why don’t you ever see a homeless person in a movie or on TV holding a sign that says that? Why do their signs always say something like “will strip for food”? I suppose it’s because those fictional characters neither realise that there are many people who want things other than stripping done for them, nor understand the versatile, abstract power of money. I however, understand these things well.
Currently, my credit card balance is way higher than I would like. While I could keep accumulating debt in the hope that my soon being titled “Dr. Ben Hourigan” will bring a whole load of money my way, I am seriously contemplating finding a job right now, hopefully some kind of proofreading or editing work. Also, if I really want to be working in Japan in the next 6 months (which I do), I’d better apply soon.
In the service of this end, I have posted a new version of my resumé, redesigned in response to Annette’s insistence that the old one was ugly. Anyone who’s familiar with Apple’s new Pages application will immediately see that I used it to do the layout. In fact, I didn’t do much except type one of the templates, it was that good. Overall, I’m really impressed with the new app, which has a lot of DTP functions as well as word-processing ones. It’s just a shame there aren’t any templates for book-length documents, like theses…