A Resume

 Q: Most writers have had other jobs. What’s one thing you learned in an entirely different professional setting that you’re grateful for?

-from Susan

 

1.     Waitress. I can’t do it and will always have the greatest respect for people who can remember who ordered what, when they ordered it, and how to get it to them without putting my thumb on the portion of the plate their food is on. 

2.     Shelver in academic library: There is at least one book written on every subject and sub-subject, and tin...