Of resumes

So I was thinking about what it would take to accumulate an impressive enough resume to get away with working good job in Washington DC without having a degree. Whimsical thinking, I know. But it's something I want to do before I die. At any rate, the resume.

I was reading through the brief biographies we had and then I saw JQA's. It's defintely a source of inspiration...and motivation. The kid was an ambassador to Prussia at MY AGE!

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848; Massachusetts) Son of John and Abigail Adams; accompanied his father to France (1778) sent to St. Petersburg as Secretary to the Minister to Russia (1781); served as Secretary to John Adams during the peace negotiations ending the American Revolution (1783); U. S. foreign ambassador under President George Washington to the Netherlands (1794) and Portugal (1796); under President John Adams to Prussia (1797-1801); under President James Madison to Russia (1809-14) and England (1815-17); a member of the Massachusetts legislature (1802); U. S. Senator (1803-08); Secretary of State under President James Monroe (1817-25); member of the Massachusetts Bible Society (1818); vice-president and long time member of the American Bible Society (1818-30); sixth President of the United States (1825-29); member of the U. S. House of Representatives (1831-48) where he was known both as “Old Man Eloquent” for his defense of the antislavery cause and as “the Hell-Hound of Slavery” for his intense opposition to slavery.

I don't know that I have any hope...