Resume: Phoenix Suns’ Floor Mopper Boy
Here is my resume again, updated for the Suns season. The one where they are going to make the playoffs.
Shaun El-Ters
Objective
Utilize my excellent mopping skills, superb mop history, and quick reaction time to become a Phoenix Suns’ floor mopper. A new era of Suns basketball calls for a new era of Suns floor mopper.
Education
Parent’s House
Major: What is 12 years of Jeopardy watching?
Minor: Three hundred episodes of Wheel of Fortune
Additional Education:
- Comprehensive understanding of Hogwart’s architecture
- Watched every Suns’ game since 1987
Relevant Skills
- Six years of mopping my floor for chore money
- Phenomenal ability to identify various liquids, especially on wood floors
- Above-average knowledge of sweat and tears (same exact thing)
- Motivated and hard working for at least the entire first five minutes
- Personable – cats adore me
- Possess efficient mopping technique
- Accommodating to the Sun’s high amount of foreign players – give me five minutes, and I can normally find Poland on a globe
Professional experience
Parent’s House – October 1986 – today, if you hire me
Floor mopper AND sweeper
Supervisor Name: “Mother dearest,” though she insists on “mom” or “Lynn.”
Supervisor Phone: Speed dial # 2
Job Duties /Accomplishments:
- Experience working in a fast paced environment while being peppered with exasperated questions like why I didn’t do anything with my life.
- Developed efficient mopping skills that allowed me to both mop and watch highlights of Suns’ games from the other room.
- Developed ability to acquiesce to any demand due to my complete and systematic loss of any sort of dignity.
- Endured my father’s shame.
- Established positive and supportive relationships with occasional guests of the house and a few of my little sister’s friends.
- Demonstrated leadership when my mom was gone for more than an hour grocery shopping and I called the police.
- Exposed to frequent mopping practice when my sister’s friends intentionally spill soda on the floor and demand that I immediately mop it up. Then they laugh at me, but I don’t mind.
Parent’s Lawn – Since birth, but that all changes today when you hire me
Mopping Supervisor of Imaginary Mopping Staff
Supervisor Name: Goran Dragic sipping a Margarita with his shirt off and winking at me.
Supervisor Phone: Love like ours transcends words.
Job Duties/Accomplishments:
- Lead a team of moppers and sweepers during pretend Suns’ games taking place in the pretend US Airways Center in my parent’s backyard.
- Drained the game winning full court shot when the imaginary Suns players were all injured in a freak accident and they asked me to sub in.
- Promoted to Mopping Team Leader due to my uncanny mopping abilities and hard work ethic.
- Voted fan favorite mopper 15 years running.
- Goran Dragic slaps my ass discreetly when he runs through the tunnel.
Additional Skills/Hobbies
- Sewing realistic, life-size Goran Dragic dolls
- Collecting mop heads…that I then use as hair for my dolls
- Follow Marcin Gortat on Twitter
- Please give me this job

when making resume, you should always include an objective.
Dammit! So that’s why they weren’t hiring me!