I have a lot to offer to the discerning employer, yet one aspect of my background continues to haunt me. It's the fact that I have a fairly large "gap" in my employment record, starting in the year 2000 after I was laid off of my job with YMCA Child Welfare, and extending until the time when I began working for Luden II corporation.
I've included information in the resumé, regarding the fact that I served as the Executor of my father's estate. That was indeed a demanding task in some ways, since I had to tend to my father's affairs from roughly 500 miles away, with the exception of a few trips to Missouri for the purpose of finalizing the sales of his properties. I was paid a substantial amount of money (from the estate) as compensation for the work I did as Executor. But some people may be inclined to suspect that the tasks pertaining to my role as Executor did not take so much time as to constitute a full-time job.
That's true. But that wasn't all that I was doing during that time period. For example, I should briefly mention that I worked for Starbucks for a couple of months towards the end of 2000. I don't generally put that on my resumé, because it doesn't pertain to the type of job for which that resumé was created. But that only accounts for a couple of months of my time, so I feel compelled to explain what I did during that period of time when I wasn't working on the estate or working at Starbucks.
When my father died in 1999, he was not fabulously wealthy, but he did leave me and my brother an inheritance which amounted to significantly more money than I had been able to save from previous jobs which I'd had in the past. I saw that inheritance as my opportunity to pursue some dreams which I had long had. One of those dreams was to own and operate my own business. What type of business? Actually, I had several ideas on which I'd been working for quite some time.
