I've decided that my CV needs some 'personal interests' section, as it seems quite droll at the moment being mainly academic.Suggestions? What do YOU do in your free time? Give me suggestions, etc.
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TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:28,
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Do you mean 'droll' or some other word with a different meaning?(
WormuIus, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:29,
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Good suggestions includeMoutaineering, Art, coaching a youth football team, boxing champion
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WormuIus, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:30,
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Probably another word. Ahhh exercise, how I should probably do you.(
TonyUNDERSCORE from the Internet, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:32,
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...Handsome, gay, pædo, King of France, AIDS, Hitler(
spacefish bong!, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:02,
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and when asked your weaknesses in an interviewnever answer "children".
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Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:04,
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I dance.I understand this is not everyone's cup of tea, but it gets me out every Tuesday and some weekends.
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SuperMatt, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:30,
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I want to do dancingHowever I don't know what kind of dancing to do, or where to go for it.
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Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:32,
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Have you heard about this wonderful thing called the interwob?there's this thing called go-ogle which allows you to ogle other peoples wobsites and they have stuff saying "dance classes here every week" and people turn up and have fun. It's an extension to REAL LIFE.
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SuperMatt, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:34,
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Oh sshPlus, that won't help the first point.
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Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:37,
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My point being, you won't be able to choose a dance style until you know what's on offer in your area.(
SuperMatt, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:38,
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I've always thought you'd be quit light on your feet for some reason even though you're quite stocky.I think you'd be very good at skipping.
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Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:34,
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I've never triedShall we meet in the playground after work and give it a try?
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SuperMatt, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:38,
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I sing, write and bully people ONLINE.(
Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 13 May 2009, 13:31,
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Not a lotHowever this week I have joined a book group and a knitting group to speed my way into old lady time.
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Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:31,
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Do not put "Football. going to the cinema etc "I'd put:
"I like breathing too hard when talking to to people on Vent, Pretending to be a caveman around the various marshlands around London, telling people that a spider laid goose eggs under my skin and over 200 geese will hatch from there at any second AHONK AHONK AHONK, Karate-Ninjutsu-Kendo a hybrid martial art that you made up yourself and your a grandmaster and no one can talk to the grandmaster directly otherwise they'll get a KIAI!.
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Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:32,
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I had a dream about you last night.You were playing guitar on a bus, and shouting abuse at Dermot O'Leary.
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Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Wed 13 May 2009, 13:33,
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football can be goodbecause it shows you like working as a team
but yeah, it's mostly a pointless section. it is handy small talk if your interviewer picks up on it though
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spacefish bong!, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:05,
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'Watching films, listening to music, performing music,going to the theatre, swimming, reading, sitting about in my pants playing with my bits.'
That's what it says on mine
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Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:34,
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Golf!Everyone who doesn’t play it automatically hates it, and anyone who plays it is generally addicted to it. But besides the point, put it down on your CV and bone up a bit on golfage slang, and I guarantee they’ll talk to you about it. Unless you get a lady interviewer. Unless she’s a rug muncher, in which case she might drag you to a driving range to show you her 400 yarder.
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Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:37,
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when I've interviewed people / read CVs and I've never bothered even reading these bitsthe only thing I look for is relevant experience.
surely you can just dump this.
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rob, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:42,
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This is all well and good until you discover later that your new employee spends his spare time making model nazis out of his own shit and piss.(
WormuIus, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:43,
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as long as he does it in his own timeif it's on the clock I want a %age of the ebay takings
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rob, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:44,
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i put "i am an awful but enthusiastic downhill biker and five-a-side player"and a load of stuff about how i'm even a spod in my spare time
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spacefish bong!, Wed 13 May 2009, 13:48,
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"I have no interests in life other than improving workplace productivity and profit. I spend my free time thinking of ways to be a more effective employee."
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Hot, wet pussyIt opens all teh doors.
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Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:01,
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I've not written a CV for yearsblimey. I should.
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spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:03,
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Write one for Noel Edmondsand send it to the BNP.
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Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:05,
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simply put:'Many and varied, but I won't tell you here as we'll need something to talk about at the interview before you offer me the job'.
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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Wed 13 May 2009, 14:05,
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