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This is funny, but also painful, because I feel like this is me. I've been working on every kind of computer problem I came across for 13 years, and I wasn't thinking about how any of it would look on my resume, and that much work is very hard to summarize.

I think of myself as a guy who can create or improve text files for computers. I think everyone needs this, but nobody wants this. I'm doing a terrible job of selling myself, and it's actually starting to hurt.



If by "text files" you mean source code, then yes, you're selling yourself totally wrong.

Don't sell what you do, sell what your work does. That is, sell the idea of the benefit of your work. Put it in terms of them, not you.




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