According to his autobiography, he moved as a teenager from Taiwan to Paraguay, then to Bolivia and finally to Canada. That's a very different story than simply "high school dropout".
http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Personal_dir/xah.html
Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee
by thinkpad20 on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:35AM
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Sounds like writing him a new, attractive, professional resume could be very helpful. Clearly his biggest issues are dealing with people and presenting himself.
Side note: that he could live at all in San Francisco on that kind of income is truly impressive. At $1600 a month, rent alone is over $17000 a year.
Re:I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee
by mercer on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:20PM
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I'd remove both, as they paint a picture that is predominantly negative (even if it might be incorrect).
I agree.
Some don't realize that a resume isn't a life-journal, but rather a carefully crafted group of documents which should help to paint the image of a choice candidate in the eyes of the interviewer, not the interviewee.
Like much in life, the biggest part of the problem is stepping into the shoes of the other party and learning to craft what they expect to see.
Having helped numerous friends and loved ones with their individual resumes was personally enlightening for when the next time comes that I must make one.
Example :
Accomplishments (at the top) : High school dropout Education (at the bottom) : Member of MENSA.
seems obvious to me which one of those two should be getting played up more.
His site has been personally very helpful to me, and I hope that he has a run of better luck.