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November 7, 2013
The average job now is done by someone who is stationary in front of some kind of screen.
Someone who has just one overriding interest is tunnel-visioned, a bore, but also a specialist, an expert.Welcome to the monopathic world, a place where only the single-minded can thrive. Of course, the rest of us are very adept at pretending to be specialists. We doctor our CVs to make it look as if all we ever wanted to do was sell mobile homes or Nespresso machines. It’s common sense, isn’t it, to try to create the impression that we are entirely focused on the job we want? And wasn’t it ever thus? In fact, it wasn’t. Anyone can learn to be a polymath – Robert Twigger – Aeon
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 7, 2013 1:49 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Here in the states, the only people who "doctor their CVs" are academics, former academics, and perhaps grad students. (The rest of us rewrite our *resumes*.) Indeed, those who earn their doctorate can literally "doctor" their CV. And these days, all too many of those who have CVs to doctor do indeed find themselves applying for jobs selling mobile homes or Nespresso machines, or perhaps applying to learn how to become a barista, such is the worth of higher education.
Posted by: Grizzly at November 7, 2013 5:53 PM
I'm a locomotive engineer, and I now sit stationary, in front of some kind of screen, and tell my locomotive what to do.
It wasn't always like that, I used to sit in front of gauges, and the locomotive would do what I made it do when I moved levers. Now my levers tell a computer what to do, and the gauges are digital readouts.
Posted by: BradnSA at November 7, 2013 11:50 PM