Ahahhhaah!
I am always complaining about time. To everyone really... I think I am going to stop. Really, I do. Just because it doesn't save me any time doing it, in fact, I waste more time talking about it... so NO MORE!
This past week I have been trying to focus on arty stuff - getting my CV sorted (which by the way took hours, but I will go into that in more detail in a sec) - and trying to finish/come up with some good pictures to send off to this games company as examples of my work. Its hard work. I don't think I have ever really finished a picture in my life. Even when I was doing art in A Level I am pretty sure I always left a little bit not finished. Do I have a fear of finishing things? Maybe I do... because if I finish it and its crap I have no excuse, but I guess if I don't finish it and its crap I can at least say 'its not finished'... that's a sad fact I have just learnt about myself. *insert self examination and realisation here.
The CV! Pah! When my friends have told me they "spent a good few hours sorting it out", I thought they were being dramatic. I haven't done a CV in years - so I had obviously forgotten the perils of launching into the world of Curriculum Vitae (that IS what it stand for, isnt it? hahaha)... so, to cut a long story short. I spent roughtly 3 hours working on it. Trying to remember dates of employement and dates of education - plus the menacing task of having to write about myself, my skills and qualification. Sure, I can write about myself forever, I don't really have a problem with that. Its the skills part. I don't know what kind of skills they want me to say... I can do the pen flipping thing, over the thumb and catch it.. does that count? probably not, but people are usually impressed....
Onwards and upwards I struggle - my aim is to finish some pictures, and my CV and get it send off to this job this weekend!
As I am in the arting mood (yeah that's a word) - here is a girl I heard about today, apparently she was on a Child Genius programme last night..
Her name is Akiane - American kid who is 13 years old and has been producing painting like this:
http://www.akiane.com/paintings/age_13/paint_wonder.jpg (sorry, picture thing wasnt woy-king)
since she was about 7 years old... I think she is amazing.. and I am so jealous. I mean, I am jealous of most adult artists for doing something I wish I could do... but this is a kid. Damn it...
What really annoys me though, is that she has this whole Oprah (the colour purple.. eh? eh? I know, I am good!) thing going on (sorry if this offends anyone but...) - the whole "God gave me this gift to help people" thing that some American kids harp on about... again, I hate to think I am offending people when I say this but... NO British kid would EVER say that... if a 13 year old British kid could do what she does, when asked the question 'how did you become such an amazing artist?' they would reply 'Errrrrr... I dunno... um... ' and then hide behind their mum/dad...(I am imagining a brummie kid saying that for some reason), that may sound anti-American, but its not. I love America and the people! :P
Anyway, to stop digging myself into more of a pickle - Its almost OceanFest... well, it is in June... and I really kinda, really want to go.. only thing is. I hate sand. Dammit!
Keep on truckin!
Sam
3 comments:
Ah, skills. That's the bit of the cv that changes.
For everything but skills (better called "other information") you put basic facts like job title, company and dates. Then you have a generic cv. The skills section then looks uncannily like the job description for the job you're applying for.
I've gone all patronising and boring in my old age, sorry.
I hope you get the job, it sounds fab.
haha - thats what I have pretty much done in the 'skills' section... which I feel is kind of cheating... just putting what you want them to hear, but I guess, thats life. I am usually good at the lying part - I think I am good at interviews because I know how to lie convincingly about things that I am good at.. but in writing it makes me feel like a dirty.. well.. scumbag! :O
It is cheating, but everyone cheats the same way so it's ok.
It does feel completely unnatural to write "I am really good at X and my knowledge of Y is fantastic and basically I'm great, I am" which is pretty much what you have to do.
Should be a knock out thing, like the apprentice except not on tv. Application forms and interviews are all about the art of omission and exaggeration. Gah.
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