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Overqualified - Joey Comeau
Overqualified
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Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything... show more
Cover letters are all the same. They're useless. You write the same lies over and over again, listing the store-bought parts of yourself that you respect the least. God knows how they tell anyone apart, but this is how it's done.And then one day a car comes out of nowhere, and suddenly everything changes and you don't know if he'll ever wake up. You get out of bed in the morning, and when you sit down to write another paint-by-numbers cover letter, something entirely different comes out.You start threatening instead of begging. You tell impolite jokes. You talk about your childhood and your sexual fantasies. You sign your real name and you put yourself honestly into letter after letter and there is no way you are ever going to get this job. Not with a letter like this.And you send it anyway.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781550228588 (1550228587)
Publisher: ECW Press
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
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A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it
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When I was little I used to lie wide awake in the dark at night in bed wondering. How do I know I’m me? How do I know I’m not somebody else? Or if somebody else is me? And if somebody else is me, who is it? Was that me who pinched my brother’s comic book this afternoon? I’d do tests to try to work i...
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Mark Books
Mark Books rated it
4.0 Overqualified
Joey Comeau's slim book of cover letters are anything but the soulless missives that I and a bazillion other job-seekers spit out daily to HR departments around the globe. They're funny, painful, and well worth reading. [ full review ]
the terror of whatever
the terror of whatever rated it
4.0
Right up my alley of course, since job hunting and cover letters are near and dear. I might have tinkered with the sequencing a bit in places, but either way very enjoyable. Also I like that it's called Overqualified and not Underqualified. Amen to that. Life, you know?
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