Recipients can't open plain text email attachments

I know this should be a no-brainer, and maybe the toddler running around in the background here and my pressing job hunt is preventing me from seeing the obvious, but I'm having trouble sending out my resume as a plain text attachment from my iMac mail account.
I've tried sending it out to my own blackberry to make sure it's not garbled before I blast it to Monster, et al, and the attachments aren't even showing up on my blackberry. When I check my sent mail file on the desktop, it's there, supposedly attached. I've tried compressing it, sending it as a windows-friendly attachment and sending it with a .doc extension file at the end with no luck.
Since I have no way of knowing who will be looking at it, much less what kind of software they'll be using, I can't download programs just to send it out to fit their format. I don't want to send it out as a PDF file because even a single click can be enough reason for someone to skip over my resume...
Any suggestions for the addled mom and job hunter???

I've tried sending it out to my own blackberry to make sure it's not garbled before I blast it to Monster, et al, and the attachments aren't even showing up on my blackberry.
If your Blackberry isn't designed to show attachments (I don't know, since I don't use one), that would be expected. Did you try just sending it as part of the actual message, instead of an attachment? As for Monster, creating or uploading a resume is done from their web site, so an attachment has no bearing on your using them.
I don't want to send it out as a PDF file because even a single click can be enough reason for someone to skip over my resume...
That's complete nonsense. Even if you send it as a plain text attachment, the recipient would certainly have to double-click to open and read the file; it's no different for a PDF file, except that PDFs can be formatted the way you like and anyone can open it to read it or even print it.
Mulder

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