New Resume Material

Now I can say that I've been in Wired Magazine. Prospective employers don't have to know that it was not due to any achievement, other than blogging about being a Nielsen family.

Here's the first paragraph.

When Nielsen Media Research approached librarian Mike Waugh in May to participate in its television ratings survey, he thought the company would install an elaborate bugging device in his TV set. Turns out, there was nothing so Orwellian about the process. All he had to do was make entries in a log book. "You'd think they would have come up with something new," says Waugh, whose family was a Nielsen home 20 years ago. "It was the same paper diary I filled out when I was 10."

It is part of a larger story about my particular demographic.

I told the writer I was a librarian. The truth is that I'm an almost librarian, technically a library technician who will have a Master's degree in Library and Information Science coming this Thursday.

When rewriting my resume, I also have to work in the fact that I got straight A's in library school. I've already figured out a way to mention that in most conversations:

"I'll have a regular Oreo Blizzard and a regular M&M Blizzard"

"Will that be all?"

"Oh yeah, I would also like to let you know that I was in Wired magazine in August and I got straight A's in library school."

Here is an earlier blog post about the article.

Posted by Mike Waugh at August 2, 2004 03:29 PM