Let me tell you about the birthday present I got this year that almost-but-didn't-quite make me cry. When I was tiny, I got a large stuffed bear from my grandparents. I've held onto him for something like 46 years now. Here's baby me with my Grandpa Bear. Given the pictures near this one where I found it in a scrapbook, I was very close to my second birthday. In fact, that might have been a birthday present. There's a cake with two candles in the next picture.
In one of my online discussion spots, there is someone asking advice about job hunting - about cover letters and interviews and convincing someone to hire them. So here we are, and I'm going to sum up some of my part of the advice with something I wish I'd been taught.
You don't have to sell yourself as a Star.
You can just be Good Enough.
See, I was a Gifted Kid(TM). I was always told that I could be a star at whatever I wanted to do. I was put on the path of greatness and told I had to go as far as I could go. I was gonna be better! I was going to change the world! My future included being the CEO or President of something, a name everyone knew, someone everyone looked up to.
