So in graduate school we occassionally hung out with these classics guys -- they seemed to mostly be guys -- actually, it all sprang from a scotch drinking club my boyfriend was a part of, and I couldn't go to scotch club unless I could show chest hair, so I guess it really WAS a guy thing -- I was allowed to go to Burns night, and I guess that's when I hung out with these guys.
In the meantime, on a kind of parallel thought, I felt that a latin phrase would really class up a resume and make potential employers look twice!
But these guys were never able to provide a translation for the phrase I wanted on my resume which was: "Bite the Hand that Feeds You." I thought this would be really punk to have that on my resume, and figured most employers wouldn't know what it meant.
Actually, what I'd really want is a CREST. With "Bite the hand that feeds you" in latin on the top, in like a ribbon, and then some kind of image that obscurly represents biting the hand that feeds you -- maybe a toothy rat? or an irritated looking dog? -- and the (latin) phrase for "pilfer" underneath, or as part of the graphic.
There was this joke article I read about 20 years ago when I was temping in SF, where this guy sent in all these joke cover letters and resumes to crappy-sounding jobs advertised in the paper, and then the form letters or whatever he got in response.One of my favorites was one where he was applying for a job, I forget what it was -- something random like copy editing or daycare -- and he did everything with a nutical theme. He had a corny hand-drawn-looking picture of a boat at the top of his letterhead and resume, and began the letter, "Ahoy there!" etc. This STILL cracks me up. The other one I remember, to an advertising agency, he wrote like he was this paranoid super-spy, "dear Mr. so and so, (if that IS your real name, or do I detect a clever pseudonym?) ..." I've been trying to find a copy of that article for years. I clipped it out, but then I lost it. Sigh.
Anyway, it also gave me the idea of using a crest on my resume and cover letters. But I have a job now.
Kool!