What my first job taught me
Use with: blog-post. Resume line when done: Wrote and published a first-person essay about frontline work — live at {url}
Brief
A post about your part-time job that could only have been written by someone who worked it: the customer stories, the boredom, the thing your manager said that stuck. Specific beats profound. You write it; the agent workshops drafts by asking where the details are thin. Published where a stranger, or a future employer, could read it.
Personalize
- The job. The one you have or had, with its own smells and regulars. If you have not had a job yet, this idea waits until you have.
- The moments. Pick the scenes you already retell to friends. Build the post around those instead of around lessons.
- What you leave out. Coworkers and customers did not sign up to be written about. Change names and skip what would embarrass someone.
Milestones
- A memory dump written fast: every scene, quote, and detail you can recall from the job.
- The angle chosen: the one thread that ties your best scenes together.
- Full draft written by you.
- Workshop pass: the agent flags vague spots, and you replace them with specifics only you know.
- A check for anyone who could be hurt by a detail, then published at a public URL.
Done means
- Live at a public URL with your name on it
- The details are specific enough that nobody else could have written it
- Every sentence is yours; the agent only questioned drafts
- No coworker or customer is identifiable without their okay
- Everything described happened, told straight