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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Old Post: Resume (First Draft) from 7/12/2006

Today, I came across a job that 1. I would like, 2. would involve something I'm passionate about, and 3. would get me out of town. This means revisiting my resume'. I haven't really updated my resume' in, like, 9 years because I haven't had to. And in 9 years of working for the state, I have a lot to update.

...so, I'm procrastinating, apparently.

I remembered this "fake" resume' I wrote which I like to call Resume' (First Draft). This was originally a myspace blog. Let's go back in time to 2006: I had just graduated from UT with a fairly useless psych degree and no interest in the field anymore. I wanted a "real" job. I wanted to make some money.

I was working at the Olive Garden, and in retrospect, I wasn't disgruntled. Or at least not as disgruntled as I am these days. I worked 3 days a week, and I have no idea how I paid bills. It was a fun time.

While searching for a real job, I wrote this...


So, last night, again, I tried to write my resume, but again, I got wicked frustrated by the fact that working in a restaurant hasn't done shit for me... so then I spent my time not writing my resume, but writing this smartass resume.

Jack Batongbakal
6900 Immature Smartass Cove                                          (512)569-5069
Austin, Texas 78745                                    Jack.Batongbakal@gmail.com
                                            Uh_Oh_Here_Comes_The_Sex@yahoo.com
                                                                                                            (fake)

BACKGROUND
Jack just wants to get the fuck out of working in a restaurant.  So please.  He's clearly willing to do anything just short of sucking cock in order to make a reasonable amount of money in order to provide for himself, his food and the girl of his dreams whom he's hoping he'll also meet somewhere that isn't a restaurant cause we all know that dating in a restaurant is as good as inbreeding  He's a damned hard worker, loyal to a fault, soft-spoken yet entertaining, a quick learner, fuckin' intelligent and quick at adapting.... like the Borg.

Professional Experience
Olive Garden (Burnet Rd.)                                               Server/Bartender
Austin, TX                                                                            2003-Present
Responsibilities/Accomplishments include
- Very dependable at getting appointed tasks done; "dancing monkey will dance if you tell dancing monkey to dance"
- Works well with stupid people (and that's both an accomplishment and a statement)
- Can claim dignity for not ass-kissing.
- Takes pride in his aesthetically pleasing and somewhat pleasant tasting drinks.
- Hasn't physically harmed a patron nor done something excessively bad to a patron's food, and considering he's been there for about 5 years, that's a fuckin' accomplishment.
- Honest unless it gets him or his friends in trouble
- Rarely drinks a lot on the job
- Excellent at bureaucratic paperwork bullshit
- Invented "bar bowling", "bar curling", "bar shuffleboard", "bar darts", "bar-box tic-tac-toe", and always calls "glass" when shooting trash off the backboard into the trashcan.
- Can play the opening riff from "Seven Nation Army" with water and wine glasses.
- Extremely hard worker
- Proficient in handling a semi-sharp knife while wearing a Kevlar-based cutting glove... like wearing a helmet while walking fast.
- Extreme proficiency in breaking glass, ideal for good for Jewish weddings.
- Cryomaniac... Loooves freezing shit.
- Maintains a generally presentable appearance but still refuses to shave his balding head.
- Durable, has worked an entire year without slip-resistant shoes and only fell on his ass 4 times.


Olive Garden (South Lamar)                                           Host/Host Trainer
Austin, TX                                                      November 1999- July 2001
Responsibilities/Accomplishments included
- Walking fast when trying to get from one place to another
- Walking slow when guests walk slow, are old, disabled, easily distracted, or are just plain stupid.
- Excellent seller.  Made people believe that they'd actually enjoy the job and wouldnt end up working there for the rest of their lives during interview process.
- Can keep a secret although extremely good gossiper
- Can move tables together or take them a part like a monkey.
- Proficiency in counting and talking.
- Can think quickly on the spot and answer phones with many different names or accents.
- Not bothered by masochism

Education
University of Texas at Austin                                    May 2002-May 2006
B.A.in Psychology                                                                      GPA 3.4
Minored in History
Language- German (3 years including two semesters of Business German but typically spent his time looking up important things like "Polar bear" and "magic carpet" and "Hilary Duff is a dirty whore"... Hilary Duff ist eine schmutzige Schlampe... right?)
Other- Spent two semesters as an assistant to the principle investigator of a research project
- Froze the shit out of peoples arms, laughed about it, and made excellent charts with Microsoft Excel... for science.

Computer Experience:
- Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excell, Microsoft Windows Facebook, Myspace, solitare, spider solitare, freecell, mediaplayer, AOL, NHL hockey 1992, a game where you made cheeseburgers for money in space (I shit yall not), Kazaa, Kazaalite programs that let you look at pictures oh and MORTAL KOMBAAAAAT!!!

Additional Qualifications
- Doesn't do drugs, and is trying to not drink anymore which is difficult when you work in a bar, and you constantly wonder whether your drink tastes all right and then you make a little more next time cause you realize that you have a talent for making things with liquor and ice.
- Really fuckin smart.
- Innovative, inventive and real good with words
- Asian, and we know that Asians are awesome workers
- Affirmative action
- Smells extremely good when not smelling like Italian food or liquor
- Has excellent beginners luck
- Thoughtful and good for morale
- Really poor right now...