Zodiac on Resume?

Everyone likes to say they are hard workers, determined to do whatever it takes to get the job done ect.

Well for me, these traits are actually the core components of both my birth month and birth year zodiac(capricorn, tiger). So when I say I'm hardworking, ambitious and organized, I'm not just saying that because I'm another kid desperate for the prestige of a career in finance, but because those traits actually in my dna. I could be a plumber, a zoologist, or even a shoe shiner. My work ethic would be exactly the same.

So what about adding my signs to the bottom of my resume, with small bullet points explaining how these signs, and particularly this combination of signs, makes me a very good match for the high-tempo finance world?

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YES, WE HAVE CROSSED THE RUBICON INTO ASTROLOGY. God help us.

1/12 of people on earth have your sign. Even I wouldn't dare put this on a resume and I had a chart done by a 5th generation Shivshakti astologer from Bengladesh that told me to go into finance 15 years ago after giving me a sacred cow bell blessed in Tibet (and why a Bhuddist would bless a Hindu item is beyond even me). I suppose this is what happens when you host exchange students, they bring around unusual folks. And she made very good tea as well.

Back to the topic at hand: you don't know the influences of other planets in your chart, so take a closer look before assuming your birth date alone qualifies you for anything. FWIW, Capricorn is the sign of management and Scorpio is the sign of accounting, investment banking and group resources.....so if you're going by sign focus on FLDP or some other management track and leave scalable transactions to the gods of the underworld. These are not tools to serve your ambition, these transactions are massive power transfers that affect the masses. You only have to look at 2008 to see what happens when fools treat the literal wealth of nations like their personal playthings. If you really want to drink the koolade.......rethink your focus OR get a real chart done and then come back and talk to me.

But enough of this. No. Do not put your newspaper clipping interpretation of overgeneralized and bastardized western pseudo science on a resume. I give you credit for asking, but if you put your sign on a resume you will absolutely not be called. And you might just end up like Mr. Vayner. And now I will bless you with monkey poo.

Namaste.

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I don't think it's appropriate to list your age on your resume. If you want to list your favorite baseball team, that's OK. If you root for the Yankees, it says you're a hard worker and like winning. If you root for the Cubs... oh wait, I root for the Cubs.

There's a couple of funny comments here but this one got me to actually laugh out loud. FWIW my area doesn't even have a team so it's either Yankees or Mets. Given I worship the mighty MO, I guess that makes me a Chankeez fan?
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