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I'm a former medical professional (PA) who left the profession when my wife finished school 4 years ago. The plan was to have flexibility to travel and to stay at home for a while if we had kids. We now have 2, and the 2nd is approaching the age where we'd feel comfortable sending him to daycare.

I've started to look at medically adjacent non-clinical jobs recently. During the last 4 years, I had a couple part-time stints (6-12 months) as essentially a local park ranger. My question is should I include those on the resume to fill in some of the unemployed time gap, or leave them off and just explain that I was caring for my children during that stretch, with the intent to eventually return to some medical role?

Thanks!

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I know nothing about your field, but my gut says to include them.  It seems like it shows a broader set of interests and skills than the average applicant might have.

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When I am looking at a resume, I like those gaps filled with whatever the applicant was doing. Even if it is something like "backpacked through Europe." It shows they may not have been fired and just wanted to explore other things for a while. I would lay out your choice with regard to raising your young child in your cover letter, briefly. That also shows character in my opinion.

Even though we know you are a heathen and of low character since we are posting in this hive of villainy and scum.

Good luck!

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2 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

I probably shouldn't be considered for the mere fact I couldn't scroll down one more inch to find the job hunting thread. 

Too lazy to scroll down? That’s middle management if I ever saw it 

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If the Park Ranger bit is community service oriented or something like that, I would list it.  If it was smoking dope and taking long hikes, maybe not so much.

What's relevant to the job you want?

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4 hours ago, davidg said:

I would easily ignore a gap in employment if your resume included a handsome picture of yourself next to a tree.

Which as a park ranger should be easy to facilitate.   Some hiring Mgr may hate gaps so better to put on there imo

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Make sure to add actual relevant and quantifiable, actionable contributions you've made that you can tell a story about. 

And most importantly make sure to include your favorite dead comedian. 

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Absolutely include it. It shows initiative and you're going to have to have a convo about the gap anyway. Someone that comes across your resume or your interviewer could be into parks or the outdoors or whatever and you've instantly created some amicable small-talk. 

The way I see shit like that is the employers that would frown upon it aren't the people you would want to work for anyway. 

Life is too short to lie about who you are. 

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