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my ux course ended in july. my cv still said accountant.. "tomorrow. properly, with coffee.". Daniel at the kitchen table in the evening, still in his office shirt after work, laptop shut, phone in his hand with its screen turned away from us.
every time i opened it i closed it again.. Daniel opens the laptop, reads his old accounting CV for a few seconds, then closes it again and rubs his eyes.
first NoCrast put my distracting apps on hold, the days i chose.. We look over Daniel's shoulder at the phone on the kitchen table while he chooses which apps to put on hold.
then its AI broke 'update my cv' into small, doable steps.. Daniel holds his phone out to us across the kitchen table, the koala peering over his arm; he looks at us with half a smile.
i did one step a sitting. gathered everything first, proofread last.. Daniel types at the laptop, his old printed CV marked up in pen beside him next to a sketchbook of course wireframes, phone face-down on the table.
On a bright weekend morning, Daniel leans back at the kitchen table, his new CV printed in a neat stack in front of him, coffee beside it, grinning.
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How I finally updated my CV after a career change, one step at a time

NoCrast Team
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A comic story: Daniel's CV still said accountant months after his UX course. How he rewrote it one small step at a sitting, and how you can too.

A NoCrast comic story: Daniel, an accountant who finished a UX course, and the CV he kept putting off.

My UX course ended in July. By October, my CV still said accountant.

Every evening I came home in my office shirt, sat at the kitchen table, and told myself the same thing: tomorrow. Properly, with coffee. Then I picked up my phone instead.

When I did open the CV, I read a few lines written by my old accounting self, rubbed my eyes, and closed the laptop again. I knew roughly what I wanted to say. The trouble was that "update my CV" felt like one huge job with no place to begin.

So I tried something different. First, NoCrast put my distracting apps on hold, on the days I chose. Then its AI broke "update my CV" into small, doable steps. It was a short list now, not one big wall, and I caught myself half-smiling at it.

I did one step a sitting. The first one was easy on purpose: gather everything. My old CV, my course certificate, my sketchbook full of wireframes. Then came the rewriting, the cutting, the rewording. Proofreading came last, with the old printed CV beside me, covered in pen. My phone stayed face-down on the table.

One bright weekend morning, I printed the new version. A neat little stack, coffee next to it. I'd left it untouched for three months, and in the end it took a handful of small steps.

How to update your CV after a career change

If your CV still describes the job you're leaving, you're not alone. Here is what helped, and you can start today.

  1. Make the first step tiny. Don't start by writing. Start by gathering: your old CV, course certificates, project files, dates, links. Put it all in one folder. That counts as progress.

  2. Turn "update my CV" into a list. A vague task is easy to avoid. Write out the steps: a new summary, your projects, your past roles, trimming, proofreading. If the blank list is the hard part, NoCrast's AI can break the goal into small, doable steps for you.

  3. Get your phone out of the way. Put it face-down, or in another room. If your phone is what keeps pulling you away, NoCrast keeps distracting apps on hold until your tasks are done, on the days you pick.

  4. Do one step a sitting, then stop. You don't need a whole weekend. Finish one step and count it as a win. A finished step is a good place to stop, and the next one will be waiting.

  5. Lead with where you're going. Put your new direction near the top: a short summary, your course, and two or three projects with what you did in each. Keep your past roles, but reword them around skills that carry over, like attention to detail or explaining complex things simply.

  6. Proofread last, on paper. Print it, read it slowly, and mark it up with a pen. Reading it aloud catches the clumsy bits. Then make the fixes in one final sitting.

It doesn't have to be a perfect CV. It just has to say who you are now.

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