Well, as I’m always looking to butter up my resume and polish my portfolio my eyes have been keen on anything mentioning either. Well, alas, here is one of the stranger ones I’ve come across:
Gaming on your resume
If the title isn’t enough for you then consider this: Massive Multiplyer Online games are a huge market right now, and the ways that they mimic reality allow for entry level job applicants the ability to claim that they know how to operate corporations. With complex MMO’s like EVE, WOW, or whatever, gamers may have more experience than you’d think. The article argues that MMO’s are:
directly applicable to a business environment: conflict resolution, organizational tasks, data tracking, long-term planning, and managerial decision-making in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
I think I’ll keep it off my resume and portfolio for now — I don’t think any potential employer gives a crap that I beat Ninja Gaiden 2 or that I have an incredible penchant to blow the minds of all around me in Mario Kart.
[via Massively.com]
Why haven’t I done this yet? Thorin loves making lists and such, right? So why not make a list of how he’s feeling right now? Shut up. I didn’t think of it till just now. I mean, I was too busy looking for a job to make some list. Anyway – Songs for the unemployed, songs for the working.
- “Working Class Hero” – John Lennon
- John Lennon’s ballad in ode to those of us (re: not me) that work for a living. Something that I’m sure he doesn’t remember all that well — not to say that music isn’t work, just that it isn’t the same type of thing. But we can ignore that and simply rock out eh?
- “The River” – Bruce Springsteen
- Okay this song is mostly about something else, but the lines, “I got a job working for the Johnstown Company/But lately there ain’t been much work on account of the economy” rings more true today then it did then.
- “Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)” – Sufjan Stevens
- Although Sufjan Stevens is always making songs about himself, even when he’s trying to ode to whomever — the lines “Since the first of June/Lost my job/Lost my room” are still thoughful.
- “I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)” – Tom Waits
- Tom Waits has had a lot of jobs in his life, and credit to this one for naming th eworst attributes of all of them — and bonus points for using the word “copacetic.” I love Tom Waits because you can find one of his songs for nearly any type of theme mix.
- “(Antichrist Television Blues)” – The Arcade Fire
- The Arcade Fire is taking a cue from punk bands of old as they chant on, “I don’t want to work in a building downtown.” It’s true, when you work in one of the buildings downtown the most exciting aspect of the day is when you go to lunch at Chili’s.
- “Working In A Coalmine” – Devo
- “When the work day is over/I’m too tired to have some fun.” Man, that sounds painfully familiar. Stupid bike courier job.
- “This Place” – Descendents*
- This song actually reminds me a lot when I worked at Secondspin. Maybe even when I worked for Denver/Boulder — “This place sucks/I haven’t found a single friend in three long years.” I played this on my last day for the last song when I worked at Secondspin. It was great.
- “Career Opportunities” – The Clash
- I was always a fan of the line, “I won’t open letter bombs for you.” Mostly because I really like the picture of Joe Strummer standing with goggles and tongs opening letters while the Queen of England stand over him looking over his shoulder.
- “Steelworker” – Big Black
- “See I’m a steelworker/ I kill what I eat.” Nuff’ said.
- “Clocked In” – Black Flag*
- I’ve been unemployed long enough to find sympathy in the opening lines of “Clocked In,” “I tried to apply/ I can’t get loose/My day is to myself/Put my brain in a noose”
- “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” – Angels Of Light/Akron Family
- Hmm… Michael Gira scares me a little bit.
- “There Is Power In A Union” – Billy Bragg
- Good old fashion working man’s song. Get with the union!
- “Uptown” — Crystals*
- Talking about how her man can work uptown and come home for some good lovin’… or something. I don’t actually know.
- “Step Into My Office, Baby” — Belle & Sebastian
- Okay, this song is about something else — but it can be applied to work.
- “Spoken For Mix” – DJ Shadow
- This is part of the soundtrack to the movie Dark Days — which if you’ve seen you understand why its here.
- “Invisible Man” – Public Enemy
- Hmm, Public Enemy, always so happy to be tackling issues and such.
- “Clockwork” – Blackalicious
- See, you can be a rapper for a job!
- “Protect Ya Neck” – Wu-Tang Clan
- I honestly don’t remember why I put this on here now… oh well, I’m sure it applies.
- “Sixteen Tons” –Tennessee Ernie Ford
- This is one of my favorite country songs of all time. And it’s pretty obvious why its on the list.
- “9 to 5? – Dolly Parton
- Also obvious. It’s about working, ya’ know. From 9 to 5. Except that is easy, not a day is 8 to 5 or longer. Way to go America.
- “Maggie’s Farm” – Bob Dylan
- “I ain’t gone a-work on Maggie’s farm, no more…”
- “Factory” – Bruce Springsteen
- What, I can put two Springsteen songs a mix about UNEMPLOYMENT AND WORKING. It’s Bruce Springsteen, who else sings about this stuff all the time?
- “Oney” – Johnny Cash
- The first time I ever heard this song I was actually at work. It made my frustrating day so much better.
- “Bill Morgan and His Gal (My Name is Morgan But It Ain’t J.P.)” – The New Lost City Ramblers
- A good working man finds himself a wife that wants to buy buy buy.
- “Marie” – Townes Van Zandt
- This is the most fitting and perfect song for this mix.
- “Poor Places” – Wilco
- This one is a bit of a stretch, but nothing says unemployment like the line, “I’m not going outside.”
- “Work Is a 4 Letter Word” –The Smiths
- And that 4 letter word is… “work.”
- “Plea from a Cat Named Virtute” – Weakerthans
- I’m not sure what the Weakerthans are actually going for with this tune, but describing a cat is likely describing a lonely, bored, unemployed dude who’s unsure whether he even want to get up every day let alone do anything.
- “I Ain’t Got No Home in This World Anymore” – Woody Guthrie
- This just seemed like the best way to end this mix.
It is (mostly) available for download via iTunes here.
I’ll just link back to imeem.com when I can for the time being.
*These songs are missing from the imeem.com stream of the playlist — don’t bash the free streaming service, they’re doing their best.
Overture – The getting out of bed
i.) Yawn.
Lyrics: A yawn in the morning as the sun begins to rise, a deathly destructive voice of a monster, a monster willing to hi-de! (guitar solo) My head the night before, stammered through a dream, and a capital idea of destruction struck me. (drum solo) I must wake up and destroy the world with my voice.
ii.) The rinse of life
A.) The washing of thy parts
Lyrics: Yow! That water it is too hot, and now is too cold, make dragons spice up the night and leave it heated yeah!
B.) Washing of thy part (contd. side B)
1.) A dance breaks out, motorcycles are involved, I am still unclothed but elegantly covered by soap.
C.) The beheading of work
Lyrics: Now I must behead the work to live my life by my own rule (drum solo, 18 minutes). The work is what has destroyed me, and like the dreams I had before, the dreams that take my life, I must begin to speak, to destroy, destroy their might. (guitar solo, followed by keyboard solo, which sounds like things exploding and the world ending and stuff, this symbolizes my grumpiness.
Bridge – Venturing into the unknown
i.) The transportation.
Lyrics: On the back of thy dragon I travel to the west (or north if I’m going to work) to destroy the monarchy of a world filled with toiling mess. The violence begins to overcome me, but I must, I must retreat. I cannot destroy them all, I must not fester this beast. (Wicked, wicked guitar solo, one of the best guitar solos you’ll ever hear). (This is the part where the dragon turns into that dog thing from the Neverending story, and you the listener, realize that only you can arrange my fate.)
1.) Destination starship .
Lyrics: You must help me, help me find the way, otherwise I will destroy the world. Please, please save me, flip the side to D or E (This is the cool part, you decide the fate of me by flipping to either side D or side E of the record. On one side I head off to work, the other I call in sick).
Requiem – The return home, the eating, the bedding.
This part is only a guitar solo and may have a keyboard solo at the end as bells and chimes come in to reveal my descent into sleep. Both sides of the record end this way, as what I did at school and work are hardly worthy of their own entire sections. Mostly just waking up. Play everyday of the week if you want to know what I’m up to.
