So right now I'm staring at a byzantine job application for a consultancy. You know the kind of application: please tell us why we're wonderful, please tell us why you're wonderful, please be different from everyone else out there, make us an online portfolio, write us a bunch of crazy essays, etc., etc. (Let me pause and say, WTF, I'm not applying to Vassar here folks).
I'm wondering, should I put the work into this? Sometimes I believe that I've been in the academic world for too long, and I'll never be able to get an interview at a real firm. And if I do get hired, it will probably be in my contract that I'll have to use 'words' like 'impactful' on a regular basis.
Here's how far I've gotten:
Why I am wonderful:
Because I'm secretly a unicorn, a care bear, and a vampire combined. My superhero name is The Sparkle Menace.
A Super Duper Worker!
Why you are wonderful:
Because you have money.
Why I am different from everyone else out there
(see point one)
What inspires me:
Interesting art! Great novels! Not your dopey firm! Have you heard of
hubris? No? I know it's an older word than 'impactful' but I think it's still in the dictionary, and in modern usage . . .
Ok, possibly I'm not ready to do this application yet . . . .
