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There is a resume that has been making the rounds here in LA, being emailed back and forth to audio engineers and producers, studio owners, etc.
It's from a kid who was graduating from an audio recording technical school, and looking to find a position as a runner at a studio. That's the guy who fetches lunch and straightens cables. It's the absolute bottom rung (aside from intern), but it's where everyone starts.
So, for starters, he puts a huge picture of himself in full whitey-gangster getup, with the one pegged leg on the custom jeans, gold dangling everywhere, you know the vibe. He's sitting in front of a huge mixing console, the same console that we all know because it's in every promo picture for the school he went to. (Hint - ego shots of big studio boards are not impressive if you're paying 16k a year to sit at that board).
Then, he proceeds to list this massive, monumental credits list of projects he engineered, or produced. They were mostly the "critical darlings" of the engineering world, projects that we all love, but that have never sold a million copies. He claimed to have won industry awards, been nominated for grammies in production, platinum selling albums, etc.
Ok, so, nobody with that kind of credits list is applying for a gig as a runner.
Then, and this is the kicker, HE EMAILED IT TO ALL OF THE ENGINEERS WHO HAD RECORDED THOSE SAME RECORDS! Talk about balls! The same thing happened like 50x over, where some intern or assistant was trolling through a stack of resumes, saw this one, brought it to the engineer, and said, "Um ... I thought YOU recorded Jeremy Enigk's Return of the Frog Queen."
Needless to say, with one swift move, this kid ensured that he would never get a gig in any major studio in town.
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