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genarti ([personal profile] genarti) wrote in [personal profile] melannen 2014-06-07 05:28 pm (UTC)

I don't have anything fannish on my resume nowadays, but back in... oh, 2005ish, when I was trying for entry-level jobs with an extremely scanty resume of actual work, I did have this on my resume:

2000 - 2005 Brunchma.com http://www.brunchma.com
Moderator
• Supervised high-traffic forum of internet discussion board with over 1500 users

I'm pretty sure I got asked about it in the job interview for my first job ever (an extremely boring, a-monkey-with-arithmatic-skills-could-do-this sort of job, but nonetheless.) I framed it very much in the "intellectual discussions! Exchange of ideas among a community living in far-flung places!" context without any talk of fannishness, IIRC -- admittedly, assisted by the fact that the sub-forum I moderated was indeed the political/intellectual debate forum, and not one of the sillier ones. (It also wasn't explicitly fannish in the sense of creating fanworks per se, although it was a fan site for a particular website and was very much within that kind of geek community.)

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