Oct. 8th, 2007

New car

Oct. 8th, 2007 03:33 pm
Well, it looks like I'll have a new car, starting on Wednesday. It'll be in my mom's name, and she's paying for it, but I'm the one who's going to be driving it. It's a 2004 Optra 5 LS (I think I got that all correct). I did a test drive today, and it handles very, very differently from my current car (a 1995 Buick Century), and is of course much smaller. My biggest gripe is the visibility: the rear window is quite small, and the blind spots on the sides (for lane shifting) are quite large. On the other hand, it's fully equiped with Cool Stuff (tm), including a sunroof, block heater, CD / MP3 player, power windows and locks (the kind you lock with your key), etc. It's also a hatchback, which means that even though it's a lot smaller than my current car, it's got a decent amount of trunk space if you fold down the rear seats. Oh, and it's blue. I like blue.

So that's the big news of the day. It should be ready by Wednesday afternoon. I'm still a bit weirded out by the whole situation -- I didn't expect it to happen so fast. But happen it did, so there you are.
Okay, I'm calling on the collected wisdom of my friends' list for this particular question:

The last time I updated my CV was back in March. Since then, I've added another two employers to the list of "companies I've worked for" (namely ELAM and Vanier). That makes 4 companies I've worked for in the past year, 5 if you include the place I did summer secretarial work last summer (2006). To read through the list, it would look like this:

- ESL Teacher, ELAM (Sept. 2007 - Nov. 2007, potentially more contracts in the future)
- ESL Teacher, ILSC (Nov. 2006 - July 2007, potentially more contacts in the future)
- ESL Writing Teacher, Vanier College (Sept. 2007 - Nov. 2007, potentially more contracts in the future)
- Writing Tutor, Dawson College (March 2007 - present)

These are, of course, not counting previous work experience from more than a year ago, such a my stint as a T.A. at Concordia, four summers of summer secretarial work, and paid peer tutor work when I was at Dawson (around 2000-2001).

That's a lot of repetitions of "ESL Teacher," and most of the job descriptions would be the same. I don't want to start cluttering my CV with a bunch of job descriptions of short-term contracts, even though I think they're all valuable if I intend to persue teaching. How should I go about writing this up so it highlights my experience and downplays the fact that these are all short-term contracts for multiple companies? Or should I even try that track?

LJ Friends, I'm counting on you! Help, please!

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