I’m a bit of a Renaissance man. I’ve tried many different careers, from agricultural labor to baking to marine biology. I’ve worked some jobs for years, and some for a single day, but I’ve learned something new from each one. If it wasn’t a skill, it was something about myself. I’ve lived in different countries, been in school, been out of school.
I obviously don’t put everything on the resume when I apply for a job, I tailor it. But I’m so tired of interviews where people more boring than me ask me to justify why I did such and such if it wasn’t related to my current career. The answer is: because I’m human! I try things out! I live life! I don’t exist to prepare myself for the boring job I need to survive. These hiring managers act like you’re supposed to have come out of the womb knowing what you want to do and having started building a resume based on it.
Additionally, they act like the past 3 years with Covid didn’t happen. You’re supposed to have been going about your life as normal even though things were upside-down.