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eredienA question for those of you with memory problems, and/or for those of you who need to keep track of this stuff in general:
When you go to fill out one of those job applications that asks for the past decade of your employment and residence history, with no gaps, how do you remember all the stuff like "the street number of the house you stayed in for three months that one summer?" How do you remember "the month I moved into apartment y, four years ago?"
The regular answer, "look it up on your previous leases/computers/resumes," doesn't really apply here. One of my computer is missing, one of them is onnother OS which I can't get at, one of them is a fried backup disk, and all my paper records of leases and old addresses are sitting in storage boxes in a storage unit in Cambridge--except for the ones I threw out before the move as unnecessary (for instance, any records of the address of the apartment I stayed in for three months that one summer is gone, because I didn't file taxes from there and didn't get any mail there either).
It strikes me that this situation is usually not that bad, because they usually ask for 5 years at the most, but this time I've been asked for the past 7 years, back through '04. I will probably be asked for it again, and it strikes me as prudent to set up some kind of system that isn't reliant solely on my backup hard disk and laptop.
How do you keep track of this information, going forward? What do all of you do?
In other news, I have officially moved 13 times in the past 7 years, with about half of those moves occurring within the last year. That's...a lot of change.
When you go to fill out one of those job applications that asks for the past decade of your employment and residence history, with no gaps, how do you remember all the stuff like "the street number of the house you stayed in for three months that one summer?" How do you remember "the month I moved into apartment y, four years ago?"
The regular answer, "look it up on your previous leases/computers/resumes," doesn't really apply here. One of my computer is missing, one of them is onnother OS which I can't get at, one of them is a fried backup disk, and all my paper records of leases and old addresses are sitting in storage boxes in a storage unit in Cambridge--except for the ones I threw out before the move as unnecessary (for instance, any records of the address of the apartment I stayed in for three months that one summer is gone, because I didn't file taxes from there and didn't get any mail there either).
It strikes me that this situation is usually not that bad, because they usually ask for 5 years at the most, but this time I've been asked for the past 7 years, back through '04. I will probably be asked for it again, and it strikes me as prudent to set up some kind of system that isn't reliant solely on my backup hard disk and laptop.
How do you keep track of this information, going forward? What do all of you do?
In other news, I have officially moved 13 times in the past 7 years, with about half of those moves occurring within the last year. That's...a lot of change.
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1/2/11 12:17 (UTC)Also, since you've used an online e-mail source for a while could some of them be in there? When you send out "Hey I've moved!" messages? Search for those.
For future use, you might use your online e-mail notepad type things to store notes that might be needed.
If you need it, I know I have one apartment address from you in '07.