(Source: Letters Of Note)
Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave "V" words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land's-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.
I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.
I have just returned and I still like words.
May I have a few with you?
Robert Pirosh
385 Madison Avenue
Room 610
New York
Eldorado 5-6024
3 comments:
Based on what I saw in this post, I can say that it is really the greatest job application. I have a friend who is an expert in making job application. She needs to see this.
Ingles Grocery Store Application
I think it succeeded because it shows the genius of the writer, it was whimsical, and it went outside the 'box' that everyone else was thinking in.
I like it because it's fun.
Update May 19, 2012:
Sending out a job application worked in 1934, but it might not work as well in 2012. Instead, why not send out a web link to a page that shows a years worth of accomplishments.
Seth Godin suggests doing something like this over the next two years:
- Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit.
- Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, PHP and SQL. Not a little, but mastery.
- Volunteer to coach or assistant coach a kids sports team.
- Start, run and grow an online community.
- Give a speech a week to local organizations.
- Write a regular newsletter or blog about an industry you care about.
- Learn a foreign language fluently.
- Write three detailed business plans for projects in the industry you care about.
- Self-publish a book.
- Run a marathon.
(Don't be scared if you can't do everything on this list in 2 years. Seth Godin probably could, but I don't think I could.)
The great thing is that all of these things can be done for free. All you need is a laptop, a commitment, and plenty of coffee.
Beats sending out resumes and waiting for the phone to ring.
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