Lynn Deming
Experience
Diets
I have come to realize that I hate worrying, counting, and obsessing over food, and even more, that I hate deprivation. I also realized there is no magic pill and I have to listen to my body, monitor portions, find healthy, tasty food, and continue my search for an all chocolate diet that would make me thin and live forever without any disease.
Low Fat
1975-1984
1975-1984
- Ate the fat free, chemical laden meals and snacks that my mom provided
- Lost zero weight (and it didn’t even taste all that great)
Yeast Free Diet
1992-1994
- Went on for health reasons which it helped alleviate, and lost 10 lbs.
- Combed over ingredients on food labels to ensure no “forbidden” foods were listed.
- Researched and cooked foods without sugar, yeast, and other tasty and fun ingredients.
Weight Watchers
1994-1996; 1999-2004
- Researched and cooked foods allowed the Weight Watchers Universe.
- Counted points like there was no tomorrow.
- Lost all of my pregnancy weight each time.
- Gained it all right back and more as soon as off program.
Low carb/Modified Keto
On and off 2014-2017
- Researched and cooked foods allowed the Low Carb Universe.
- Lost weight, and then gained weight when I would go off course.
Exercise
While all of these were excellent activities for being in shape, they took me away from my life and family for hours at a time. I am now currently on a mission to find activities I can do throughout my day and life. I can tell you my number one exercise -- it’s laughing! More ideas to come!
Dance (Jazz, Ballet, Tap)
1970-1972; 1979-1982; 1990-1993
Aerobics
1975
Jazzercize
1989
Creative Health and Fitness
Member
1995-1997
Treadmill #2 at Planet Fitness
2005-2007
Zumba
2010-2012
Treadmill #5 at Fitness Edge
2012-2015
Education
The College of Self Help
B.S. in Health Fads
1975-2017
Thousands of Hours:
- pouring over magazines and on the internet written by “experts” telling me how to be healthy and thin
- reading and cooking from “healthy” fad cookbooks and magazine
- watching perfect and perky women teach in exercise videos and in gyms across the area
Master’s Program: Listening to My Inner Voice.
2-17-Present
Hoping to finish it within the next year or so and use this as the main thesis for my “Rest of my Life Dissertation”.
Skills
Reading Labels on Food Products (beginner level, still need a Chemistry Degree to decipher most of the ingredients).
Sauteeing, Baking, Roasting, Grilling, Blending, Mixing, Chopping, Slicing, Dicing, Mincing, and pretty much anything you can do to food.
Breathing deep breaths when under stress, Stretching without breaking to reach the top shelf in my kitchen, Walking that extra mile (ok, so maybe ½ mile) when my car breaks down, Bike riding to the train (when said car breaks down), Swimming while towing a kayak (when the kayak decides to flip), Leaping over medium sized piles of laundry to get to the washer.
Hi Lynn!
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I absolutely love the direction you are headed with your topic. Your openness and self realizations adds a lovely human element to your writing.
Perhaps placing your information into a Word Document will create a more eye catching/ readable resume. You have such great information that I don't want to miss a word! By shortening your line length, adding a simple design element, and increasing some spacing, this will be so awesome! :)
Hey Lynn,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with @avaelise on this one! You have an amazing point of view with your topic and a very comical yet smart resume, I would love to see this laid out in an interesting and eye catching way.
I love all of the different years of diets and exercises, I would be very excited to see how you laid them all out to make sense in one document. Overall, amazing job with this project!
Before the Web, resumes were our biggest avatars and careers were our beat. Online, there are more ways to express ourselves and employ our interests.
ReplyDeleteA resume is another mix of author and audience, just like the about page. A poor resume is usually filled with a jobhunter’s goals and anxieties. A good resume is tailored to the needs of each individual HR department and the open position they hold.
Which is why I recommend drafts again, one set of rewrites to help you answer your questions about your future and another set to speak to the different employers you contact.
LinkedIn, or any Web-based resume, is a third version. It’s not tailored to any particular employer, but a live and mobile personal statement that should catch the right eyes when discovered. A Web presence expands on this third document with endless creative possibilities —if you are so motivated to pursue them.
A resume is also a timeline, a written document defining past actions and suggesting future ones. It’s our first step in class between writing that is personal and passionate and writing that is applied and logical.
I’m happy you took the opportunity to focus the resume on your pseudonym. It clearly defines you for one purpose and audience. Your anxieties and your humor are the point here. They engage us and pull us through the document.
You hit many of the right structural notes of any resume. First, a written summary is followed by your experience, but I would raise your skills above your education. Then the sequence would fully “think of the audience,” concentrating on how you fulfill their needs. This is also why a “summary statement” at the top works better than an “about you” or “objective statement” on your goals or needs.
Even with humor and creativity—especially in these cases—we have to remember the audience and how the work reaches them.
My favorite piece of writing here is the summary / mission statement above your exercise section. This really speaks to the audience and puts the rest of the resume in context, even more than the statement over the diets section. Don’t state it after the fact—bring it to the top.
Another element I like here is your experience section. For many students, this is reduced down to bullet points and job titles, when what they learned and did on each job is the most important part of any resume. Your creative take on the format allows you to find the personal lessons and outcomes of each specific diet. You could have done the same with the exercise examples too.
When it comes to resumes, we tend to think broad and even vague is best, so we appear open to many jobs and clients. But recruiters rarely look for jacks-of-all-trades and you don’t want all those jobs anyway. You just want to meet all the people who like your particular sense of humor and know the same struggles.
We already see how focusing on one beat improves your chances of an audience. Focusing on the specific experiences you’ve loved and the ones you want to pursue next—through the documents writing—illustrates the unique skill set that people will want to hire.
That’s how writing your avatars becomes taking your future into your own hands.
Terrific work, Lynn.