[dba-Tech] Resume / CV Advice Sought

Ed Tesiny eptept at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 17:53:18 CDT 2014


Arthur,
My coffee of choice  is Fresh Market Reserve Blue Mountain, any opinion on
it.  I could send you a sample, whole bean of course, light roast.  Runs
$29.99 for 12 ounces.  Don't know if it's available in Canada but if you
know of something better, please let me know.


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ed Tesiny <eptept at gmail.com> wrote:

> Arthur,
> I know this is American but there may be some useful information here
> http://roastersguild.org/?p=about&sub=execCouncil
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> As regular listers will know, a while back I declared myself Semi-Retired.
>> But now I want to try something radically new.
>>
>> Since I was about 15, I have been a coffee drinker. Since I was about 30,
>> I
>> slowly matured into a coffee aficionado. I know instantly the difference
>> between, say, a Guatemalan coffee and a Kenyan -- hell, that's too easy --
>> I can discern a Guatemlan from a Salvadorean. And I know some if not most
>> of the lingo that coffee aficionados employ; it's similar to the
>> vocabulary
>> of wine lovers. One tiny exception is that in coffee, "acidy" is a good
>> thing (to most but not all palates).
>>
>> Anyway, I have decided to realize an ambition on my Bucket List, to wit,
>> to
>> learn the art of coffee roasting, and to obtain a job performing this
>> magic. There are several companies in Toronto that perform this art. I'm
>> willing to go through the motions of learning to become a barista, but
>> that
>> at most would be a step toward my real goal.
>>
>> I dug out a few versions of my resume, which list in varying degrees of
>> detail my 30+ years' experience writing software, mostly
>> database-oriented.
>> None of this experience is in any way related to my new Bucket List item,
>> to become a coffee roaster. In this field I have no experience other than
>> the consumption of vast amounts of coffee from numerous nations, and such
>> knowledge as "espresso is neither a bean nor a drink, but a roast, which
>> can be performed upon almost any type of bean."
>>
>> Even of the back story. My question is, How should I pitch myself to the
>> one or three companies in Toronto that do their own roasting, and locally?
>> (In case you wondered, Starbucks is not one of them, since they do their
>> roasting not even in Canada, and the distance between roasting and selling
>> is crucial to maintain the highest quality: distance and quality are
>> inversely proportional.
>>
>> There's also an event-type called a Cupping, which to my knowledge none of
>> the quality-coffee sellers in Toronto practice. This is very similar to a
>> wine-tasting event; the participants do not swallow the coffees offered
>> but
>> savour them, rolling the mouthful around the tongue to appreciate the
>> aspects of the taste (different parts of the tongue detect different
>> aspects of the taste, and hence the need to roll the mouthful); then the
>> mouthful is spit out as in wine-tasting. Since, to my knowledge, none of
>> the three vendors to whom I'm considering applying for a gig, I would want
>> to present Cuppings as a new marketing opportunity.
>>
>> So. How might I present myself as an aficionado with a serious desire to
>> learn the art of roasting, and lacking any experience in this aspect of
>> the
>> business?
>>
>> Any suggestions shall be gratefully received.
>>
>> --
>> Arthur
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