Job-hunt-related bitching

[featherynscale]

I'm working on my resume today, and I have discovered a problem. Several problems, actually, but the largest one is this: I have no experience getting paid for anything that I feel that I might like to get paid for in the future. I don't want to be an assistant for the rest of my life - actually I'd like to be done with that now, if at all possible. Granted, I've been all sorts of assistant, and this has given me a pretty wide range of skills, but still, I've always been "somebody's secretary", which doesn't really impress people much.

The sort of thing I'm interested in is management and/or training - which I've done, but um... not for pay, and not in any situation I'd care to discuss with potential employers.
I can see that situation now: "Yes, I have extensive program design and facilitation experience, which comes from my work as a priestess... and yes, training experience too - I've taught various aspects of paganism to lots of people."
Somehow I don't think that will go over well in the interview.

Comments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Someday, when I am a rich and famous archaeologist, you could come and manage the archaeological park I'll be running. I've already got someone lined up to be a grantwriter, so now I need someone sensible to put the money to use, right? It'd be fabulous.