choke hold / strangle hold

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

dying in new brunswick

for those of you that have been holding your breath and/or crossing your fingers... i got my call back from the organization that i interview with last week. and i did NOT get the job. this is the third position that i have interview for where my ‘letdown’ call back has sounded like “our decision came down to you and one other candidate. it was really a toss up. and the position has been filled by someone else. we will keep you in mind for any positions that come up in the future. we really enjoyed meeting you and were thoroughly impressed by your resume and your personality.”

um yeah... thanks. i still have no job. whoop-dee-doo!

just tell me that i suck and that i never had a fighting chance. i have never liked being 2nd best.

after a short discussion with a few friends last night, i have decided that i am going to continue to disclose the fact that i have MS to my prospective employers. there is no doubt that it has kept several organizations from hiring me (human rights, shuman rights!) - and is serving to prolong my hunt for meaningful part time employment in the nonprofit/ social service sector. but i guess what it comes down to is that i would not want to work with people that i have to hide my MS from. i don’t want to do it. and i would rather stay on disability for another 6 months than accept a job where i have to fuck myself up by covering the tracks of illness.

i will rant more on the nonprofit sector and disability at a later time. right now, i eat lunch.

1 Comments:

At 11:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

damn... nobody responed to this one yet? OK, well, to be totally honest if a resume came across my deak at work and it had anything about MS on it, I wouldn't care in the least bit. I always look for people who are talented and hard workers. Anything else is pretty much irrelevent. I'm glad you are staying true to yourself, you have my respect for this. well, you already had it, but now you have it 2X or Version 2.0 or something like that...

Although, I did recommend we hire one girl once simply because she was cute, but she eneded up TOTALLY SUCKING. That was a big mistake I learned the hard way. Stupid hormons...

-david

 

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