Just one word. Are you listening?

Plastics.

I took my car into the shop yesterday, 2/22/22. The odometer had 155,555 miles on it. I’d like to think that would translate into some good fortune on the repair bill, but I’m not that kind of lucky. So I decided to point that luck somewhere else and go a little (just a little) buckwild on a cover letter. Aim for the stars; die in space.

And why does this spellcheck not think “buckwild” is a word?

David Pomes
[address]
[contact]

22 February, 2022

Holla,

               If history is any guide, I am not the best fit for your organization. You’re looking for achievement within a specific context, you’re looking for a team player, you’re looking for someone who won’t make trouble. Again, this is going by history. And you can find any of those folks under almost any rock you pick up. I’m just looking to solve as many problems as I can before I die. The bright side for you in there however is that those characteristics are all tools easily applied to that end, and I’d be happy to discuss with you just how much money I’ve made for my employers using the very skills you’re looking for. Thousands in recovered losses, tens of thousands more in the building of payroll tools.

               Where we may honestly diverge however is where the problem to be solved is the context, or the team, or the why behind what we’re doing. Because everything connects to everything else, my best work comes when I can step outside my bubble and tweak everyone else’s. I’ve been blessed to work with some truly gifted teams, and enough genuine losers that I’m equally comfortable with individual effort if that’s the straightest path to the solution. And sometimes the root problems are mistakes we’ve become comfortable with making. I’ve cost an employer dearly in illusory “lost” profits with my discovery of reporting errors, and I’m just as proud of that solution as I still am of my payroll work.

               Where I believe we’re in agreement is in the recognition of a worthy problem. I’ve been working the retail life, and making money for the people who generally cause me the frustrations that devil me outside the workplace. I’d like to take what that world has taught me and apply it fixing the problems that transactional reality causes. It was with that goal in mind that I’ve formed a rapport with your mission to [INSERT NOBLE QUEST HERE]. I look forward to the opportunity to learn how best I can help advance that work. The responsibilities of the actual job at hand are of little concern, my greater curiosity lies in how I can apply myself as fully as possible to achieving our shared goals.

               If history is any guide, you stopped reading after the first sentence. If making history is your guiding star, email to the above address is the most reliable contact.

Thank you for your time,

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David Pomes