Since I've finished my co-consults, I'm now eligeble to start working at the Writing Center. Dianna sent out an email instructing us that if we were interested, we should send a letter of interest, a writing sample, and our resume to her and Trixie. Upon reading this, I was very excited and wanted to send it all right away...but I didn't have a resume. For the last two and half years, I've worked in the kitchen at a nursing home and I only had to turn in an application and know somebody on the inside to get that job. Then last year I worked at the Writing Center at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse; in order to work there, I had to be recommended by a teacher, interview with the director, and do two days of orientation. So as you can see, I've never needed a fancy-pantsy resume before. I stressed over it for about an hour, struggling to describe myself in brief bullet points and remember all the experience I had while getting the formatting correct and avoiding the "DON'Ts" of resume writing. However, when it was all done, I realized that my stressing out was unfounded. It wasn't extremely difficult and it gave me not only good experience for the future when I will most definitely need to write resumes, but experience for helping students who might come to the center looking for help on their resume. I'm assuming that this is part of the reason that a resume is required for applying to work at the Writing Center.