I think I am going to add a section titled "Failures" to my resume. The more I rustle this idea around in my head - been about 20 minutes at time of this writing - the more I like it. Everyone hears about how we should learn from our failures...that we learn more from failing than succeeding, etc etc. Logically, one can then conclude, that our failures may actually may be our successes. So why shouldn't it be on a resume?
In my life, I can count a good solid three or four real mess-ups (plus about 8 million small ones). Investments that went wrong, relationships that were ruined and events that nothing good, but what I learnt, came from them. Why NOT display them? This section will share the real estate after my education and work experience; if you think about it, its all basically experience anyways.
I will post my resume in an upcoming post that will include this Failures section. While I don't see myself searching for a job anytime in the near future (you never know tho!), it may turn out that my Failures section is, in itself, a failure. Which I then could include in my Failures section...hmm...wait a second...anyways. I heard a quote once, I like it - "If you aren't failing at something every day than you aren't trying enough". That would make a nice long resume!
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