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Cover Letter of an Unpublished Author

It has been my dream ever since entering university with only a vague glimpse of how my talents and skills could be orchestrated for the benefit of others to pursue a career in the service industry starting from emotionally smooth indirect methods of approaching and reaching people and growing into emotionally violent and psychologically hostile terrain, where I am engaging myself in the dangerous, risky, and direct experience of being immediately acquainted with the suffering and tribulations of people around in the world. In essence, I wanted to work for world vision and feed hungry children in Africa.

As a legally disabled applicant with a brain tumor removed at the tender age of 16, I have struggled with my identity as a person, as a student, as a child, as a disciple and as a public servant for many years, while continually facing the bigotries that surround my illness and being told by everyone around me that I was “good for nothing.” I have recanted my claims to intellectual greatness or socially commendable sycophancy through perpetual self-analysis and aesthetic projections of oversimplified emotion with underappreciated depth, a practical irony that allude the casual observer’s pragmatic senses which produces a sense of enigma or mystery when combined with socially disharmonious configurations of perception that self-perpetuate in rhythmic progressions of unacquainted novelty. In essence I choose to be an author and an explorer of enigmatic mysteries myself by studying the prophetic revelations of the old testament, and selling myself as a patriot of understanding and a mediator between God and men through the practical sedentary abode of the spiritual theologian.

Due to the uniqueness of my vision, I could not circumscribe such an endeavor, as I became an arbiter of psychological and cultural discrepancies in my attempt to garnish the perpetual novelty of literary religious arbitration and could not find public work in a sector as a theologian or admittance to a program where my work could be socially regulated. It now befits me to explore the science of service, a very complex, arduous, difficult, and demanding enterprise, that deals with the multifaceted and jealously irrevocable subjugation of the human will and energy in an emotionally burdensome yet rewarding exercise of psychological attention. It is my objective as a critical recipient of both literary and scientific works regarding semantics, to personally institutionalize a practice by which very deep, penetrating and invasive mortal integers of virtue are given a form of expression of which the systematic depth of logistical intricacies, the cross-referential systematization of brain storming trees equals the moral value of the virtue at hand. This type of awareness I attempt not only to express, but also to feel through the manually corrosive element of applied self-discipline, prudence, and socialized maturity. In other words, I want to earn the self-respect that I have, through the very rewarding, and real experience of serving you at your company.

Your Prospective Public Apprentice




Xiao Dong

Answer 1

that's pretty good!!! i like it!!! you can write!!!

Answer 2

This is for a waitress job?



It's way too wordy and quite irrelevant. I would stop reading half way through if I was screening resumes.



Keep the language simpler, drop any mention of the brain tumor (or other medical issues), and focus only on how you could serve a customer.



I'd rate it at a 2.

Answer 3

It's certainly well written, but a prospective employer won't read anything over one or two pages--cover letter and resume combined--so you might want to shorten it to one paragraph.

Good luck. This may have been miscategorized by Yahoo, you might want to post it in another, more relevant category.

Answer 4

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