2003-03-02 - 2:30 a.m.

Finally

It was long and hard and constantly getting me into trouble, but I finally got my hands on it and worked it for all it was worth.  That's right, I'm talking about my resume.  I don't know what you're thinking of.

Is there anything less fun than trying to summarize what you do for a living in a business format?  I have battled this monster off and on for 20 years now. I am never happy with my resume.  There is no way to win.  What one HR director may like another would throw in the trash as unreadable.

I know I put too much information in it.  But I have worked a lot of jobs since 1989, apparently.  The best I could do was try to be honest and not repeat myself.  I finished it up, and then emailed it to Melissa at that company where I want to be hired. My ideal would be a training job where I get to travel some and work out of an office here in Atlanta.  Or I would just like to manage some small department some place close to home.

It is possible that I will have to relocate for a new job.  That's fine.  Just gimme the amount of money I ask for.  Maybe I will wind up in New York soon.  We'll see.  I have no way of knowing.  I just know I have to strike now what I am in a high cycle and before my current job sucks the life out of me.  I am so ready for a change in many areas of my life.

This evening I drove down to the theater to see if I could get in to see a couple of improv shows.  Since this is a non-profit theater and they were having a fundraiser I bought the "all shows, backstage pass." There were only two shows left, but that's ok.  I wanted them to meet their goal of $10,000 in 24 hours.  And they did.  Just barely. By about $10 more than what I paid for my ticket.  So I helped push them over the edge.

They also gave me a bottle of wine.  I have never heard of it, it is called [yellow tail] Chardonnay and it was bottled in Australia.  It looks delicious, but I don't drink so I'll wind up giving it away.  Cool label, though.  I spent a little time backstage, but everyone was so out of it there was not much going on.  I got a glimpse of what life is like in that theater.  There are so many personalities.  For someone like me who studies people and interactions it is a veritable cornucopia.

These were the last two shows of the night, the end of the Improv-A-Thon and I was not sure what to expect. Most of the actors have been up for over 24 hours.  I talked to a few of them, but they all looked like I felt yesterday at the end of the workweek.

Then the shows started. The first one was an improvised game show called Winnie Biggie.  They pulled a few people out of the audience to act as contestants and the improvisers tried to fool them. They also did a version of Match Game where each actor was a celebrity. That was pretty funny. President Lincoln, Bing Crosby, Anna Nicole Smith and a few others were the panel.  The contestants from the audience were duds.  What most people don't realize is that if you are not a practiced comedian you need to just play it straight and let the funny people talk.

The second show was Theater Sports.  I have wanted to see this for a long time.  Two teams of improvisers battle it out for supremacy.  It is very fast paced, and extremely funny.  I was really impressed.  They did a great job for people who had gone without sleep for a day.  The most amazing part came at the very end when they decided to end of a bang and improvise a musical.  They got a topic from the audience, cotton candy, and started making up a story and singing songs about it.  I laughed so hard.

And the songs rhymed and made sense and they just pulled it out of thin air.  There were five guys on stage singing, one would pick up where the other left off.  Sometimes two would start singing at the same time and it got a little awkward, but there was so much going on that no one noticed.

Now I am back home.  It was a good day.  Productive.  Relaxing. Different.

Going to sleep now.

Jimmy
 

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