Writing a Resume

  While a portfolio exists to showcase your work, a resume accounts for your time.




  As such, an educational resume would highlight your studies, from early childhood forward, in several subjects. It's basic format might involve "spent 1532 to 1535 reading about the role of g-coupled protien receptors in hepatic metabolic autoregulatory feedback" or "spent 1932 to 1935 studying music under the tutelage of Susan Smith."

  This is what higher education has always been; "instead of doing something constructive, I took a year off to explore something I was interested in." Simply document what you are studying, and when, so you can compile it into a resume later, and remember that "spent a few years with a raging comic book addiction" is actually "devoted several years to the study of contemporary english literature." People include Dickens' "Great Expectations" as if it were quality literature, but quite bluntly, it was a crap soap opera run as a newspaper column; surely you're allowed as much leeway as someone with a doctorate in English Lit.

  If you can account for your studies of your interests, you can cobble together a resume of your relevant education, and the resume and portfolio systems work rather well together. Keep a journal, take notes, and study what moves your curiosity.


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