tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post6583362618007606901..comments2023-04-29T12:09:48.251+01:00Comments on jesus wept: ‘Would you mind explaining for us the gaps in your CV?’gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780471237127876432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post-11739229527018350602008-07-11T13:24:00.000+01:002008-07-11T13:24:00.000+01:00Excellent. So you were trying to establish yoursel...Excellent. So you were trying to establish yourself as a novelist....writer of theology or scientific papers, whatever it was, and after many rejections from publishing houses/journals/peers you realised after 4 long years that you had given it enough effort and that it was not likely to be a fulltime career.<BR/>If pushed, you might be able to show fragments of your writing.<BR/><BR/>It's the kind of attempt at a creative life that many wish they had the courage for, and many return from with a sigh years later.<BR/>It should certainly explain a gap in employment, especially as your last position was in a church - the kind of place a lofty idealist dreamer might end up in after a failed writing career.<BR/><BR/>Good luck!Erika Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812376497361267014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post-10490504808842479152008-07-11T09:39:00.000+01:002008-07-11T09:39:00.000+01:00Well, my nails are looking all shiny. Thankd for y...Well, my nails are looking all shiny. Thankd for your thoughts. I think, as ever, all I can do is wait until they ask... only then will I get a sense of any attitude behind the asking. Erika, you're right that throughtout those years I wasn't entirely doing nothing... with some manouvring I can knock months off the gap with bits of voluntary work. Mostly, I just wrote. Shame that back then, blogging had yet to be invented...gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780471237127876432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post-79211461764132942932008-07-10T20:14:00.000+01:002008-07-10T20:14:00.000+01:00It's hard to comment here without knowing anything...It's hard to comment here without knowing anything about you.<BR/>It really depends on how creative you can be about the four years you spent not working in paid employment.<BR/>Did you, even remotely, help look after someone else? did you do any kind of voluntary work, however little? Did you do any kind of research (for that PHD you had envisaged, or for a book or something....)?<BR/><BR/>Is it at all possible that you find something you did do rather than focus on what you didn't do, and stress that cleverly so that it looks as though you had still been usefully active?Erika Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812376497361267014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956173110733260952.post-52221818852702295122008-07-10T18:51:00.000+01:002008-07-10T18:51:00.000+01:00Do you know, I've heard other stories of an adviso...Do you know, I've heard other stories of an advisor at the EHRC with an apparently rather current experience of ADHD. And about another unhelpful comparison with diabetes. Except I think this person was a woman. Do you think they have a policy of only employing people with ADHD who like to use diabetes as a metaphor...?<BR/><BR/><I>So ultimately, to say ‘I’m being healed through the grace of Christ’ is simply to say ‘I’m a Christian’. And they’ll know that.</I><BR/><BR/>Heh. Classic. Except I don't think they *would* know that. They're a bit theologically dense, some of these Christian types, you know. ;) But seriously - I have managed to get away with saying things like that...<BR/><BR/>Have you come to any conclusions about what you might say? I'm in favour of the come-clean approach, too - but I quote the DDA at these people a lot all the time, in order to cover my own back and so forth. On only a couple of occasions has this failed to have a positive effect.<BR/><BR/>P.S. Good luck with the interview!Naomi J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10918322634249814999noreply@blogger.com