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[[File:Track record.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Joan Armatrading out looking for work yesterday]] | [[File:Track record.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Joan Armatrading out looking for work yesterday]] | ||
}}Isn’t it odd how the only time you encounter the expression “[[proven track record]]” is on a [[Curriculum vitae|CV]], and the only people who | }}Isn’t it odd how the only time you encounter the expression “[[proven track record]]” is on a [[Curriculum vitae|CV]], and the only people who have any use for [[CV]]s are looking for work, and if you are looking for work it suggests either you don’t currently have any, or you aren’t enormously enjoying what you’ve got? | ||
Now this points up an anomaly, or possibly even a [[paradox]], for you would think employers would look after people with [[proven track record]]s. So who ''are'' these misunderstood people? How has the commercial world so badly mis-measured them? | |||
And to you, silent heroes all, with your proven but yet disregarded track records: Take comfort — for, as the [[JC]] likes to say, [[comfort is a dish best served cold]] — in the old saw: the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay gainfully employed. | And to you, silent heroes all, with your proven but yet disregarded track records: Take comfort — for, as the [[JC]] likes to say, [[comfort is a dish best served cold]] — in the old saw: the market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay gainfully employed. | ||
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*[[LinkedIn]] for that is surely your next destination. | *[[LinkedIn]] for that is surely your next destination. | ||
*{{b|The Mismeasurement of Man}}, a super book by the super, but late, {{author|Stephen J. Gould}}, a fellow who, when it came to writing excellent books, had a ''magnificent'' track record. | |||