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A couple of years ago, in similar circumstances, I worked in a fabric store.
Would I put that on nmy resume? Why? It has no more to do with my career
than the drug store I worked in through college. Better to have a gap in
your work history. If you stayed totally unemployed the gap would be there.
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In hopes of brining in some money, and if nothing else stretching my
unemployment coverage a little longer, I've been thinking about taking a
temporary position in a bookstore as extra holiday help. I was an asst.
manager in a bookstore during college, and it's always been one of my
all-time favorite jobs.
I've got a couple questions about doing this, though:
1. Is this 6 weeks or so in retail something that should (must?) go on my
resume?
2. If so, would that work against me in my continuing efforts to find a
tech
writing position? My work history will show me going from a rather
high-paying professional position to a minimum wage temp job in retail.
Would this flag my resume for the refuse bin?
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