Angel,
Angel, I was very much like you in that respect a few years ago... My wife still doesn't understand that I need my mental gears to be constantly grinding... I think she's only just starting to warm up to the idea of my geekiness after seeing my blog about the Candidate-Recruiter dynamic today and commented at how clever and insightful I was... <plug type="gratuitous"> http://recruiting-dos-and-donts.blogspot.com/ </plug> True, sometimes not having had the time to work on those personal projects can be somewhat detrimental. I have an unfinished mysetry novel, a non-fiction book about fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible also unfinished, as well as a Unicode transcription application and a project application called the HSX Seer, all in the pipe- works... I may not have completed any of these, but I mention them and the blog in my CV; and if anyone asks me about these items, I can easily describe these projects for at least a minute and a half; because generally that's all you have to explain a personal project to someone before they may start to lose interest. I lost track of my Recruitment blog for about 2 months, and lost... well I didn't really lose any audience at that stage as they didn't really appear until March... but that's not the point ;) As long as there is some mention in your own CV it is bound to raise some interest... Or slipping it into some general conversation... so long as you can dumb it down for the non-techs... Yes, you do have to take a stance... Imagine if Martin Luther King had said "I have a dream, but I have a feeling you don't want to hear about it." If you feel strongly about your ideas, have it mentioned somewhere like me on your CV under personal interests or personal projects... Clients look at these at some point and do take notice... but if you can back up these references in the CV to a short spiel, they will believe that you are passionate about your coding... I think I must have done something right at my interview, as I mentioned the HSX Seer and my transcription program, and he decided to forgo the technical quiz! LOL -- Eliseo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
