So a few months back, when I was unemployed and looking for work around Oslo, I thought I’d try what I thought was a clever and novel approach to job hunting. Abandoning the half lies, deception and the general bullshit that stank up my regular CV (“hardworking, innovative and passionate”? ought really to read “lazy, clumsy and absolutely never on time”) I thought I’d write a very different, more honest CV. Anyway, it didn’t work, nobody offered me a job, but as I have just discovered my novel and I realise now very stupid CV did turn up Facebook:

The small print

I should probably mention that the fellow who posted charitably emailed me privately and offer to help me find a job – possibly starting with how to write a CV- but it got lost in my junk mail and by the time I found it I had already fooled someone else into employing me (not with that CV).



