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31/1/11 18:54
eredien: Dancing Dragon (Default)
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A 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.
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1/2/11 21:20 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] ab3nd.livejournal.com
Keep in mind that most of this stuff, they can't check anyway. As long as you put something plausible ("Hm, was that the year I spent as a wandering poet in Iberia? Or the time I was on that arctic fishing ship?"), it will probably be fine.

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2/2/11 15:05 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com
Yeah, this. I mean, I can't imagine that, unless you're working for the C.I.A., an employer would actually care enough to go back and check on every single detail-- they just want to be able to look it over and get a sense of you as a person. I think.

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