I'm updating my resume today, and for one of my accomplishment bullet points I initially wrote "$1 in revenue" instead of "$1 million in revenue."
In the comments to the previous post, we were discussing how impressive or mundane our accomplishment stories are/need to be. This is an open question, but I do think pointing out that you made a $1 difference to your employer is unlikely to be well-received.
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Ha! Also, no point in mentioning that time you saved someone five seconds.
But what if it's 5 seconds a WEEK? Doesn't that add up to something meaningful over time?
Sure, 5 seconds a week is an FTE every 28000 years!
By rvman's math, I'm just contributing to the very long term well-being of the organization.
Hmm. I know my future discount rate is too high, but you're proving it may be possible to err on the other side.
And speaking of orders of magnitude, I was talking to a close friend today, who said, "Oh, btw, B [another friend] just got another raise and is now making 3 figures!"
Then a minute later, she said, "Did I say '3 figures'? I meant 6 figures!'
What's weird is that when she said '3 figures' I didn't hear anything wrong with it and I got the intended meaning. I guess we were both thinking 3 numbers to the left of the comma.
3 figures. I know grad students and adjuncts were poor but...oh, 6 figures, OK, not a grad student.
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