A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
I love stories like this. I have one of my own, actually.<p>When I was first getting into IT I started sending out CVs. Mine was terrible. I had been working in call centres for years at this point and all my &quot;experience&quot; was basically self-taught, so not really experience at all. As a result my CV was void of any actual content a hiring manager in IT would want to read, thus it was binned a lot.<p>I applied for a job at a nearby network hardware repair place. They needed someone to look after their Cisco kit and about 30 Debian Linux systems. I was attracted to the mix of responsibilities so I applied, sending in me not-so-good CV. I was eventually asked to come in to have a chat after waiting about a week to hear back from the place.<p>At the end of the interview, Bob (let&#x27;s call him), said I was more knowledgeable than the RHCEs that were coming through his door. This was nice to hear, but then he said something that really made me smile...<p>Apparently my CV was worse than I thought. It was so bad, that Bob literally put it in the bin under his desk. About four days later, Bob was reading through a local Linux User Group (LUG) mailing list and he saw a name he recognised: mine. So he opens the email and reads the thread in which I helped another LUG member compile a sound driver for their kernel. The instructions I gave worked.<p>Bob was impressed but he couldn&#x27;t quite remember where he had seen the name. At this point the business owner, John (heh...), was standing besides Bob&#x27;s desk and noticed my CV in the bin. He pulls it out and reads my name across the top. The penny drops for Bob and I get the call to come in and have a chat.<p>I got the job.