{"id":446,"date":"2006-09-29T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/446"},"modified":"2011-08-28T20:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T02:21:30","slug":"mouth-full-of-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/446","title":{"rendered":"Mouth full of fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s now 8:00 AM, and I’ve just finished printing out the 5th version of my cover letter for the Iowa City Public Library Perfect Job. No, it wasn’t typos or grammer that I was fixing – it was fonts.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s because I think this job is perfect, and want my cover letter and resume to reflect my NEED for this job, but I just wasn’t satisfied with how it looked. Part of it is that this is the longest cover letter I’ve ever written. I have actual professional experience, and with this particular position at least three different ways that I’m perfect for it. It’s a young adult and adult services position (no babies!) and editing the newsletter.<\/p>\n

Hi. Everything I love to do is in this job.<\/p>\n

All of the cover letters I’ve written were scrawny compared to this bad boy.<\/p>\n

So it seemed that every font and size combination I tried today made the text look too bulky. I finally settled on Times NR, because it looks sort of literary. Rar. It’s too bad my computer seems to hate when I load a big font package, or I would have used something craaazy.<\/p>\n

I’m going to go mail my application now. If you would all please please please think positive thoughts for me on this, I swear, I’ll never ask for another thing again.<\/p>\n

Update:
\nNo! No! No! The Onion is all over this!<\/p>\n

Resume Font Offends Employer<\/a>
\n“The decision to set his resume in default-font Times New Roman ‘deeply, personally, and irrevocably’ offended a prospective employer of Seth Hershey Monday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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