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Johana Tatlow
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09/05/19 at 2:06PM UTC
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Which of your jobs offered surprising lessons?

Over the last year I have been working as a resume writer. I interact with mid to senior level professionals across a wide array of industries. Every week, I learn something surprising about the way our world works: this week I interacted with a man who sources the canola seed to make our canola oil. A few months ago, I was working with a man responsible for marketing what became a teen-fad movie series. I thought this would just be a placeholder job while I worked from home after having my first kid, but instead I find that I am learning the ins and outs of multiple industries and professional roles. What jobs have you taken that yielded surprising lessons? Did those come in handy later?

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Anonymous
09/05/19 at 6:22PM UTC
Wow, well, I have one for you. I worked for Apple, HQ. and while they tout diversity and inclusion the company is anything but.I was fired and the new manager from Samsung hired all of his white male friends. the only diversity you see at Apple is in retail where people are happy to make $15 an hour to have it on their resume. so yeah, I was disillusioned
Ashley Stoyanov
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09/05/19 at 3:41PM UTC
I've always said that everyone should be required to work in the restaurant/retail or really any customer service position for at least a summer. Waitressing and bartending taught me how to really be able to deal with multiple types of people, and you also get used to long hours and working with a team. I definitely learned a lot from all of those years of hospitality industry work!

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