Welcome to Tales by Tom - This collection is a group of 24 stories under the title of Nobody Likes a Proofreader and Other Lessons I Have Learned During and After a Life in Retail.This epsode includes stories # 15 and #16. Story # 15: News from Tokyo about the Irish in me.  All kinds of unexpected things happen when you travel. Ask my son --- he knows, but in this story I meet a very attractive lady as we are flying from Tokyo to San Francisco. After a martini, the conversation turns to ancestry, and this lady hands me--- puts it right in my outstretched hands --- the key to a mystery that has plagued me for 40 years. Her husband works for dadada and that used to be called dadada and that’s who my long-lost and long-dead Irish relative worked for in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s. Why was she there and why was I there just then? Who knows but it’s a good story.Story # 16: We have all filled out resumes over the years. Did any of them work? None did for me --- until I found out the secret: You have to define yourself in terms of what the prospective employer wants to hear. It’s the only way they’ll listen (and retain) to a word you say. Sound complicated? It isn’t. Just tell them what you can do for them --- not a half dozen meaningful things, but two or three (at the max) that you know they need and you can provide and have before. Yes, they’ll want examples. Less is more here ---and the bigger the better. . You know the famous line that Cuba Gooding’s character told Jerry Maguire in the movie of the same name. Well, show it to them.Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] or at the listener call in line at 206 339 5456.