The Days of Kinkos & Resume Paper

Hello Darling Ones, Now that the government has deemed me unable to work enough to support myself due to my disability I’ve been thinking about my career as a cog in the capitalist machine. Really I’ve been thinking about Kinkos and, more specifically, resume paper. You young’uns might not know that resume paper was a thing. According to a quick Google search it might still be a thing, but I suspect not quite as big a thing as it was before the turn of the century. Back in my day (early to mid 90s) resume paper was a huge big deal and the paper you chose to print your resume on was a character-defining decision. That paper was meant to telegraph who you were and exactly what kind of person you’d be hiring if you were to believe the resume. There were lots of theories and advice on the right kind of paper to use. Subtle, but not too subtle. White, but not too white. Perhaps a nice cream with some heft to it. Since this was at the dawn of the useful internet this advice was passed down…