Apply (for) Your-Self! Talking about apps, all kinds...

App-propriate Spaces: "Complete it in full...There's a right and wrong way, to do everything; which side are you going to come down on...It's time to get down to business...for Getting On (Brits series)...I mean how are you going to amount to anything if you can't even fill out a ridiculously simple thing like a job application?!" Good questions, points made; I get it. Or them, many by now -- lessons in life, of "going about our business" that was drilled into me (U2?) early and often...well before I ever thought of (Me?never gave it a second thought, at least the first few days of summer break) picking up, let alone fill out (i.e., "complete!") an application of any kind whatsoever, let alone one that land me my first paying job. This, after doing so many chores and errands on behalf of those above me in rank ("I'm sick and tired of being someone's errand boy!") Highly motivating, upon reflection. Which, after doing so, after filling all the blank spaces completely and correctly, had to be either hand-delivered or mailed in (not these daze, of course). In either case, we were cautioned that it's difficult or "nearly impossible" to add, subtract, "redact", retract such a document after you either put it in the "U.S. Mail" slot or hit "Send" -- that is, unless you reside in and around a certain district, of Columbia...while we commoners don't enjoy such "executive privilege". So, it's other-wise, Self-enlightened, to...

"Take Your Time" To "Please Print" (curiously, after so many years of practicing cursive, eventuating in an epidemic of carpal tunnel complaints in grade schoolers, back in those daze) "Think thoroughly about each section" -- even those that seem so commonplace, so 'pedestrian' (such as your address, phone number of your first house, "including area code") Urged to take all the time we needed to do anything correctly, right after being urged in the first two grades to memorize the math facts in a "minute, or so". Curious indeed. Check it over once, twice, and even then don't hesitate to have a second set of eyes to eye-ball it, for typos and such...which, depending on how many "They" might tolerate could end up getting my app "tossed" as in out or aside, into the so-called round, curricular file, the dead zone..."trashed!" Or, at least could result in yet another undesirable 'position' -- "Please take a seat and answer #231 and then get back into line..." Something I experienced the first time I went to the doctor's office, as an adult, all on my own (read: without my spouse) -- a healthy dose of humility. The one exception to the rule is when kids in our neighborhood made a "mad dash!" to the local retailer, within walking distance, after a rumor spread like a Canadian wildfire (Oops!), that they were looking for "summer work", even those with no experience...Many of us seeking such employment, partly in case of error, and to increase our odds, asked the "clerk" for an additional copy ("I have a friend that may also be interested"). Moving along...

"Do, Due diligence" We heard, once again, early and often, that "diligence" was almost called for, in everything we did, as in the school setting and then on behalf of our (never-to-be seen) employer. And then we grew to be highly aware of due dates, as in papers, reports, blah, blah, blah...So it seemed like just a natural pairing. Which, early on, when I had handwritten a paper, before my mother was kind enough to type it, exhorted (more like an admonish-meant, if you ask me) to "please print it neater, so that I might actually be able to read it..." (BTW if anyone still has any of that early correcting tape it could bring a handsome sum by someone in the 20500 zip code  (D.C. for short), given the amount of revisions of "classified docs" going around these daze). Of course, now everything is done electronically, even "digitally" (they drilled into us that committing all those digits to heart would come in handy, some day...). And, even the one thing they allowed us to write, is being called for electronically -- a talent I am still trying to re-master, but there are plenty of apps for my "signature space" as well now, I see...

"Finally (in)complete?" As in completed "in full?" Yeah, I believe so, except, perhaps, allowing for...a few...minor details 

"Next, in line!" (Next here as well)