That whole area is nice. Me & my brothers family drove up US 1 from Monterey to the boardwalk when he was stationed there and I came to visit.
We have had a place there since 1954.
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Anyone a whiz with resumes?
Iāve worked for multiple farmers over the years, and need to list that experience on a resume (itās relevant experience to the job Iām applying for), but I donāt want to create a seperate entry for each place, since itās usually a few weeks here, a couple months there, etc. Just depends on the season and what each farmer has going on.
āLaborer - Various Farming Operationsā doesnāt look very professional.
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Fluff it up with some sylables.
Farmhand= Agricultural Technologist
Farm= āUpstream source in food supply chain production utilization unitā.
Put them together:
" 2016-2018: On demand agricultural technologist for a region leading upstream source in food supply chain production utilization units." .
There. Now youāre basically Jason Bourne on a tractor.
Kinda kidding. My resume is such a scattered mess that I went and got some welding certs so I could put all of the junk in one box. āWelderā. Nice & neat.
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I would frame it as a reliable jack of all trades willing to take on any task (list some variety of the tasks that showcase your skills - i.e. machine maintenance, planting planning (or whatever laying out field sowing plans is called).
I would be very specific, but brief with the kind of work you did. Include specific quantities and tasks of the work you did.
Use the job description of the job your applying to and list your experience in such a way that it matches up with the qualifications.
Whatever you write down, be prepared to talk about it and explain it.
All strategies I learned from my army veteran buddy (who learned those from the army), heās currently at the #1 ENR General Contractor (unless Bechtel took that spot). Different career field, but I hope the advice helps.
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I donāt think it sounds that bad. If it was more or less continuous employment you can definitely describe a block of your work experience that way along with detailing the relevant experience.
Agricultural laborer - various local farms. May 2020 - June 2022
Shoveled manure
Watched the corn grow
Extracted horse semen
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Iāve always thought it best to leave hobbies/interests off of resumes. No one really cares how you spend your free time
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Iām here to confess that Iāve done several strange jobs out of interest, rather than necessity. I grew up in the cornfields and there are lots of jobs that need to get done. If nobody jerks off the horses, the horses donāt get jerked off.
Horse semen extraction is actually serious work and having experience in that kind of work says a lot of good things about the person doing it. Agricultural labor is, in my Hoosier opinion, a great line of work with lots of interesting and challenging situations that can translate into all kinds of jobs.
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Lol, I fully agree with everything you said. Grew up working on ranches every summer, I am intimately familiar with the process, though admittedly only with cattle, never a horse.
However, I am no where near mature enough to talk about jacking off a horse without making a joke about it. I do not see that changing in the foreseeable future.
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Well itās a good thing that nobodyās making jokes in this thread about the serious business of getting that moneymaking love juice out of the stud horses.
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And here I am, I have done the collecting and depositing part of horse breeding. And yes, once it is cooled and can stay in the kitchen fridge for a day or so until use.
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I know you and @jshaving probably get this all of the time as agricultural workers, butā¦
Thank you for your service.
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āLaborerā is non-descriptive because you are describing a role. You describe the activities you were part of as a laborer.
You then describe the benchmarks that were met or exceeded for the operations you were involved in. So you end up only filtering the stuff that a potential employer gives a shit about.
Thatās it. State the operation, time period for benchmarks met and make your involvement in the operation sound like it made a major contribution,
List the stuff you did.
Thatās it.
PS, āfarmingā has specific areas. The US I believe has agriculture or whatever. Where I lived, I had raw materials. And I did live in a āplantationā, which is basically a āfarmā that yields raw materials like the tongkat ali in the biotest supp i canāt remember the name of, not the term you use in the West lol. So, you gotta be specific about the area of the idustry cos raw materials arenāt very related to agriculture.
There are specific processes. Collection, transportation, deciding which trees produce highest daily yields and allocating manpower and resources to collection from specific ones etc
You wanna show that you know the processes that matter and what the impact the scope of your job role contributes to. Thatās the point. The actual role is immaterial from an employerās POV unless he/she is just looking for disposable workers.
^All the points posted above from posters but do a write up with something like this.
KEEP IT BRIEF.
Iāve been taking a deload week and my legs are MORE sore despite not lifting
Confession:
I have a VERY obnoxious roommate, and I kid you not the intrusive thoughts I get are graphic.
Theyāre just thoughts thoā¦ā¦ā¦.for now
Lol jk, they are just thoughts
I swear the parents of some of these college students just downright failed at their job. Please stop breeding.
Srsly. Just watch the first 10 minutes of āIdiocracyā. Itās like my family tree.
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Idiocracy is worth a watch all the way through if one hasnāt seen it.
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Are there any structural or civil engineers here? Iām having a hard time trying to understand tensile strength.
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