[dba-Tech] Resume / CV Advice Sought

Rocky,

While savoring a mouthful of fine Bunn coffee I almost expelled it through
my nose at your FI list sally!



On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:

> Walk in, buttonhole the owner, have your elevator speech prepped, and
> convince them with the power of your personality that they'd be a fool to
> let you walk out and go somewhere else.
>
> R
>
>
> P.S.  I have a list of stuff I'm NOT going to do before I die.  I call it
> my
> Fuckit list.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:32 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Resume / CV Advice Sought
>
> 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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