Publishing

Describe the features of your business resume.

One day my girlfriend kicked me out of the house. We argued about something that separated us. Upset with the situation, I walked the streets of the city. As I turned on Polk Street near the corner of Sutter, I ran into the old man at the bakery. He was carrying job applications. He worked for a publishing firm in Menlo Park. His employers was the Ambassador to Australia under President Ronald Reagan. I told him that I thought he was poor. He said the opposite was true. He was so rich and influential that he was afraid of being shot down cold or followed home so he dressed in the same rags when he came home every afternoon so that he could walk around the city in peace without being disturbed. I became his assistant. That is what the job applications were for. He needed to travel the world on business and his former assistant had a family with a child. She could work from the office, but not travel on business trips. He needed me to run errands, drive, carry his medical records in case of emergency, and protect him from morning to night so that he made his meetings on time. I ended up spending two more years in college to earn my bachelor’s degree, but I traveled to Greece and Egypt to interview Kuwaitis during the Persian Gulf War. I interviewed soldiers in Germany and oil barons along the Nile River. Business took me to conventions in Hawaii. Frequent trips left for Mexico. By 1988, I was studying French along the Mediterranean Ocean in Nice, France between Monte Carlo and Cannes. The Eurail Pass my mother bought took me from one city to the next after I graduated with a Certificate from the University de Nice.

Reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada

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