What a drag
I am putting the finishing touches on my family’s Christmas letter. It will appear on this website sometime next week.
There are three phases to writing the annual letter:
(a) create a list of what the family did over the past year, then
(b) convert the list to witty letter with warm wishes, and finally
(c) remove the paragraphs where Chris indicates I’ve shared too much.
This takes me more effort than it should. I do put the time in because, unlike this blog, more than handful of people read it. I worked on portions of the Word document on my lunch hour and I dragged it between work and home on a tiny flash drive that I keep on my keychain.
In addition to writing the letter, I’ve been busy with work, holiday activities, and (a relatively recent development) fending calls from contracting firms. Yesterday I got a call from a woman who got my resume off my website and wanted it in Microsoft Word format. Recruiters and contracting firms want resumes in Word format so they can edit resumes before forwarding them onto potential clients. You can’t do that with PDF files, which is why the resume on my website is a PDF file.
Anyway, against better judgement I said I’d e-mail my resume to her a mutable format. After all, its just a drag-and-drop from my keychain too. And this morning, after firing off the e-mail, I got a response…
“Hi Ken, Thank you for sending me your holiday letter! Sounds like you have a wonderful family. … Would you be able to send me a copy of your resume in Word format?”