To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near a formula for success and happiness as the world provides.
While I have always been adapted by nature to writing and art, finding a career that allowed me a livable salary while working hard at what was my nature took a great deal of time and effort … and maybe a great deal of luck! When I combined my corporate Human Resource experience with my writing abilities to create résumés, I found success and yes, even happiness. Writing a résumé is very much like creating collage art. It is defining a person … skills, characteristic, performance … a picture of what you have to offer employers. Writing marketing materials is very much the same. It is what someone has to offer … be it a product or service. Writing résumés and marketing materials is not as important as being President of the United States, it is a small but wonderful job and considering what Washington has brought us in the last eight years, perhaps I can do something better for you.
My art career began with the gift of a camera on my ninth birthday and progressed to drawing and oil painting by high school. Somewhere in my late twenties, a friend gave me a collage as a birthday gift. Birthdays do seem key to my progress. Almost needless to say, I fell in love with collage art. To me a collage captures the magic of an individual or a time or depicting the impact of an event or time. It reveals faces caught in poses ranging from fleeting glances to hypnotic stares, moments of frivolous flirtations or solemn contemplation that come together to recapture the magic of these cultural greats. A collage can also depict the unbelievable that was 9/11, the horror of war, and the loss of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy beside the Laugh-In humor of Goldie Hawn that was the year 1968. My work is very personal to me. Take a look; perhaps you will see something that touches your life.