After years of avoiding work on this document, I have finally completed a new resume that represents who I am and the kind of work that I love to do. My resume is best viewed as a pdf, but I’ve also posted it on the Resume page of this site.

I found inspiration for the layout and design in this list of 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work. I was especially taken by a resume design by Kevin Fox and I used it as a jumping off point for mine.

I did have a lot of good feedback and encouragement from many patient friends. I want to specifically thank Cara for her coaching support and Cornell for his tough love (one of the things he said about my old resume: “the resume makes it sound like you are young, and that you do not think particularly deeply about your work, and perhaps you are simply a drone.”). I was especially pleased by Cornell’s comment about my new resume:

Your resume presents an optimistic attitude, projects confidence and demonstrates style. It reflects a person who shapes their life, not one who merely lets their life happen to them.

OK, turns out it that my permalink issue with WordPress was caused by my host, Yahoo (I refuse to add the exclamation point here).

I’ve been with Yahoo since the beginning, but sometimes the way their servers are set up makes things complicated or impossible. I actually switched to Alpha One Technologies to host my business website: www.hedonistchocolates.com because I could not get oscommerce (an open source shopping cart program) installed correctly on Yahoo’s servers.

I don’t have the energy to switch hosts for this site right now, so I found a workaround at Natespost.com. Yahoo does not allow the use of .htaccess files so you have to use a custom permalink structure: /index.php/%postname%/, which isn’t ideal but it gets the job done. Now my pages actually work and I can post my resume!

I’m in the process of revamping my website and decided it would be an interesting project to try WordPress as a way to integrate a blog, as well as a content management system. So far it hasn’t been the easiest thing to do. I got the application installed and set up, but I’m still troubleshooting it. I hope to be able to post my brand new resume here this weekend, but I need to figure out what is causing the internal server error on any new “page” I create. Stay tuned…