[thelist] Dress for Success (was: HTML test)

[Bailey, Dan]

Last summer, I interviewed with weatherplanner.com for a web design
position, at age 26.  I wore a pair of khakis, a pair of brown Levi's
Dockers shoes (don't know the technical term for 'em...I'm a jeans-n-t-shirt
kinda guy), and a blue short sleeved knit-material shirt with buttons at the
neck, but no collar.  I rocked them in the interview and they wanted to
bring me aboard...some foot-dragging caused me to take a job elsewhere, and
I still kick myself for it.

-- Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: terryfowler.com [mailto:fowler18 at england.seagull.net]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 1:56 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Dress for Success (was: HTML test)



I was just in my favorite thinking spot kinda thinking about
interviewing and taking an HTML test and stuff and I 
suddenly realized I didn't know how to picture myself.
Was I in a suit? Dockers and a polo shirt? jeans and tshirt?

Would a 20 yearold dress different from a 30 yearold? How 
about a 47 yearold? 

Also, since I've been doing this stuff for about 5 years
now behind a corporate firewall where NN3 is predominant
and it's all engineers so the the uglier the better, do I
have a chance in the real world? If you told me to code to
HTML 3.2 I'd just do what I've been doing all along, but if
you said HTML 4 transitional - well - I'd still do what
I've been doing all along. I have a better idea what to do
with xhtml than HTML 4x. 

Okay, that's all for now.

Terry Fowler
Boeing
Wants to try the real world.



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