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Job Memo

  I haven’t had many jobs; I’ve interned in a couple places but that hardly qualifies. The closest thing I’ve had to a job is being a sailing instructor (even then I’m kind of cheating ). I usually say I’m a sailing instructor to keep it simple, in truth I never completed my formation (I have about two weeks left). Nevertheless, I believe myself more than qualified to speak about sailing and, seeing as I did teach it for about 3 years (despite not having the status) to speak of how it is taught and how it should be.      Sailing instructor      The path to becoming a sailing instructor is long and tedious and no one I think really sets out on it with a goal in mind. It just eventually manifests almost out of the blue . The path to becoming an official instructor starts off as would any regular hobby but develops in a few major steps:       hobby    obsession    formation      Hobby  ...