Easy questions have easy answers, right?
This question should be illegal to ask.
No I can’t. I signed an NDA.
The NDA: Dear me, I promise to talk about the fun times only with my friends and not with potential employers. Signed, me.
This can also help you filter the lunatics from the normal workplaces. In an interview, I once explained that I couldn’t discuss specifics of my client work because of confidentiality and NDAs, and they kept pushing. It wasn’t even the same industry! There was no obvious competitive advantage.
Big if true
If i have to explain the gap (which clearly means I was not employed), it means you are incompetent, you fail my interview, I don’t work with incompetent bosses.
I tried to get the US-Citizenship. But then came the Macarena…
I spent some time in a mountain cave replica in a Nepalese themed restaurant, diligently honing my programming skills without the noise of the outside world. No internet, no mains, no toilet. Just me, my laptop, an angry manager who called the police and 60 charged replacement batteries that fell off a truck.
There I created the art of meditative programming where I learned to program not just my machine, but myself. As a result of this resume gap I am now able to function as a 13.6% more productive employee and have finally met the benchmark of 1.0x engineer. At my former employer I delivered a project which brought them in revenue totaling at least $12, giving me priceless experience because of this training.
My resume has a bigger gap than goatse
“I was consulting.”
It’s true, I was giving out advice left and right.
It was my sabbatical, and be really smug when you say it, like I’m better than you.
Online and on video games.
That’s too much info. A simple “I can” answers their question.
Me: “I was moving in silence or under a NDA.”
In Germany, just ask them what the gap between 1933 and 1945 in their company’s history is as a direct response.
I am not sure drawing a comparison between your unemployment and the reign of the Nazis is the best move
But if you get a rise out of them it’ll be perfect.
I got really into table tennis and lost track of time.
Those were the times I was taking time off to argue with the voices in my head that were telling me to kill again.
Did you win the argument?
For like 3 months out of the 2 year gap, yeah
Yes. I created the document in Google docs, and you opened it in Word.
That’s why you should provide PDF of you resume.
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it.
I created it in Word and opened it in Teams by accident once.
Teams embedded Office is the worst. Like, can you not, and would it hurt to be ⅔ less bloated by doing so?
I always put in “traveling overseas”
In my case this is actually true, but I’ve never had anyone question me taking 12 months off every few years
