Why SE should hire me

[Jyoeru]

I graduate from college in about a month. The job market is tough, even more so for us English majors who seem to go unappreciated in a marketplace saturated with high-tech this and science that.

They say that if you do what you love, you're not working a job. I love to write. And play video games. In no particular order.

In fact, it was my exposure to FFII that got me interested in reading when I was a little dude. I felt accomplished at the end of any RPG because I knew I had read at least 1/2 of a book for that year.

I originally wanted to be a computer programmer, which was because of FFVII. But, they wanted me to take physics, and I was like "nope," as I threw my books across campus and dropped out. I'd sit at a desk for hours and practice programming on my own, but make me look at vectors and what not, and I melt. Literally. Melt.

Music, that's where it was. Whenever I am feeling down, I like to hum ditties. I frequently find myself humming FF tracks. I am quite fond of Tara's theme. Sometimes I sing 1000 words (but only after I change dresses a few times, because--you know--dresses). But I can't read music. I can hum tunes, play some guitar, sing, but I am no Nobuo Uematsu.

I decided to finish my degree at the ripe old age of "too old to be playing video games." My degree required I take a foreign language. I should have taken Spanish, or French, or Pig Latin--you know, languages Liberal Arts majors flock to for that "easy A." And it's a fair choice considering how much access one has to Germanic/Latin based languages. But I--I took Japanese. While other students were out partying at some cheap bar and practicing their Spanish by ordering tacos at a late-night Jack-in-the-Box, I was choking on particles and te-forming my way through insults of being called a weaboo.

I studied poetry, creative (non)fiction. I studied British history because I love castles. I write and write and write and write. I took copy editing because I wanted to learn how to be pedantic. Some students took History of the Beatles for their electives; I took advanced Hinduism/Buddhism and studied vikings so I could be in-the-know about lore.

I research. A lot.

And I play a white mage. Who doesn't love a healer?

So, SE, I am declaring not only my love for you, but submitting my humble request that you consider me for the next job you post. I don't care if it's working in the mail room. I will clean your toilets. I will write love songs and poems and submit them to your advertising department for future use in posts--consider them testimonials.

Your move. Let's be partners in pixelated crime. I beseech you. I throw myself at your feet. I...

am out of words.

For now.

[Maddox]

Sounds like you need a job.

Oh wait...........

[yukikaze_yanagi]

I'm totally invested in this

[Pandastirfry]

Nothing says "hire this guy!" Quite like a list of non-accomplishments and begging for a job on a vidya game's general discussion board.

[Jyoeru]

Nothing says "hire this guy!" Quite like a list of non-accomplishments and begging for a job on a vidya game's general discussion board.

I think if you reread the post, you might find some accomplishments in it. I could post my full resume if you'd like, but I think I am taking this post about as serious as anyone who might be hiring at SE would. Though, it'd be nice, and stranger things have happened.

[tEtna]

Even if you did get hired at SEA you would just be a SEJ finger puppet. Its just like Sega of Americas relation to Sega of Japan. I've come to the conclusion that the main branch just feeds out content and doesn't listen to feedback.

[Shirai]

Try here:

http://tbe.taleo.net/CH01/ats/career...ARE_ENIX&cws=1

A forum is not a place for a job application.

[Pandastirfry]

I think if you reread the post, you might find some accomplishments in it. I could post my full resume if you'd like, but I think I am taking this post about as serious as anyone who might be hiring at SE would. Though, it'd be nice, and stranger things have happened.

Taking Japanese and learning to play the guitar or you took a different fluff elective than others, are not accomplishments... Neither is admiting to droping out because "vectors are too hard".

Long story short, you didn't make yourself sound like an asset in anyway, mostly like the reams and reams of letters they get that say the exact same thing "I LOVE FINAL FANTASY!!! I KNOW ENOUGH JAPANESE TO ASK WHERE THE BATHROOM IS! YOU SHOULD TOTALLY HIRE ME!"

[glim]

//I throw myself at your feet. I...

am out of words.

For now.//

LOL

[Jyoeru]

Taking Japanese and learning to play the guitar or you took a different fluff elective than others, are not accomplishments... Neither is admiting to droping out because "vectors are too hard".

Long story short, you didn't make yourself sound like an asset in anyway, mostly like the reams and reams of letters they get that say the exact same thing "I LOVE FINAL FANTASY!!! I KNOW ENOUGH JAPANESE TO ASK WHERE THE BATHROOM IS! YOU SHOULD TOTALLY HIRE ME!"

You're not one for irony, are you? You're (and perhaps the people liking your posts) taking this post way too seriously. And you're trying to make it personal, which is fine, I mean I did put exactly 1% of my details out there for you to use however you see fit. I mean, do you really think I am so desperate to work for Square that I'd take a job cleaning toilets? I am also quite the fan of your generalizations about me. You know so much from so little revealed, and you make many assumptions. Oh well, I did put myself out there, eh?