Every time I look as job postings...
Nov. 18th, 2006 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfwings...I immediately feel terrified.
I've never, not a single time in my life had any resume I've ever written, cajoled others into writing, payed others to write, developed with books, web-pages, or other training manuals, ever get me an interview. Once, ever, I've gotten an e-mail saying, "Thanks, but your resume isn't useful. Please re-submit in XYZ form." That's the best response I've ever gotten from a resume.
At the same time, I really do think I'm just not employable at any of these wonderful tech-related companies. My instincts tell me that a web-comic interface is horribly coded, clunky, and looks like shite in a dozen different ways, but it works everywhere I test it, and nobody else ever seems to notice the levels of suck-i-tude.
Knowing all my artist friends, I know this 'reaction' seems like any other artist looking at their art, wondering how the hell they can charge anything at all for something that they see nothing but flaws in... and yet, I can't push aside that feeling, and the linked-in dread of 'what if I do get hired? Can I actually do good work, or will I just get fired in the first month, and on some magical black-list circled around in the back alleys between mega-corps that somehow makes sure I'll never work again?' Stupid thoughts, I know.
But I just can't stop thinking them no matter how hard I try.
In a way, I wish I was in your place,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mira_fastfire, just because you're making so much more with your life. I feel that for all my natural talents, I never got enough proper training to hone my computer skills. You'll quickly surpass any skills I have, just because you're getting the practice, and books, and other collected knowledge I've had to waste so much of my time re-inventing in my life.
I just wish I could get over this terror of anything job-hunt related, so I could get a job that payed more than $15/hour again. The only time I did, I showed up in person with someone that already worked there that had arranged things, and waited until they gave me an interview. To be honest, so far ALL of my jobs outside of 'anyone with a high school diploma can get them' ones have been gotten for me by someone else arranging an interview without any resume involved, in my only other noteworth case not even being given a proper NDA or interview and all that until months after I'd already started getting paychecks, at the time of my first christmas bonus as I recall.
I've never, not a single time in my life had any resume I've ever written, cajoled others into writing, payed others to write, developed with books, web-pages, or other training manuals, ever get me an interview. Once, ever, I've gotten an e-mail saying, "Thanks, but your resume isn't useful. Please re-submit in XYZ form." That's the best response I've ever gotten from a resume.
At the same time, I really do think I'm just not employable at any of these wonderful tech-related companies. My instincts tell me that a web-comic interface is horribly coded, clunky, and looks like shite in a dozen different ways, but it works everywhere I test it, and nobody else ever seems to notice the levels of suck-i-tude.
Knowing all my artist friends, I know this 'reaction' seems like any other artist looking at their art, wondering how the hell they can charge anything at all for something that they see nothing but flaws in... and yet, I can't push aside that feeling, and the linked-in dread of 'what if I do get hired? Can I actually do good work, or will I just get fired in the first month, and on some magical black-list circled around in the back alleys between mega-corps that somehow makes sure I'll never work again?' Stupid thoughts, I know.
But I just can't stop thinking them no matter how hard I try.
In a way, I wish I was in your place,
mira_fastfire, just because you're making so much more with your life. I feel that for all my natural talents, I never got enough proper training to hone my computer skills. You'll quickly surpass any skills I have, just because you're getting the practice, and books, and other collected knowledge I've had to waste so much of my time re-inventing in my life.I just wish I could get over this terror of anything job-hunt related, so I could get a job that payed more than $15/hour again. The only time I did, I showed up in person with someone that already worked there that had arranged things, and waited until they gave me an interview. To be honest, so far ALL of my jobs outside of 'anyone with a high school diploma can get them' ones have been gotten for me by someone else arranging an interview without any resume involved, in my only other noteworth case not even being given a proper NDA or interview and all that until months after I'd already started getting paychecks, at the time of my first christmas bonus as I recall.
Re: Well...
Date: 2006-11-19 07:27 am (UTC)It was kinda a version half-way between the green and 'final brown' version I still have posted anywhere. I didn't keep a copy of the collapsable row/table trick since it just wasn't portable enough on the current generation of browsers.
Basically, you can flag entire columns and rows with distinct styles, then use Javascript tomanipulate those styles and hide/collapse the rows or columns. The 'Prologue/A Hunt/An Elf in our Forest?/Shattered Myths' sections were just individual cells in a large table, so I could flag all the columns and rows as collapsed by default, then only expand one of each to show the correct chapter in the correct language.
It's all in the CSS 2.1 standards, but it's really poorly supported at best unfortunately, especially collapsing columns.