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On a whim I applied for a job that I was quite qualified for last November, with excellent references and experience. I thought I would have an interview and received a rejection letter three months later. I applied for another similar job today and someone I know said I was one of almost 90 applicants. It is for a bit less money than I make now, but has better benefits and hours, so the money situation wouldn't be a hardship. it is in my field, and not a promotion, just a different area of work in the same career.
I have the experience, references, and qualifications, but so do a lot of other people. What I have been seeing is that older workers are coming back to work and since they've been out of the work force they will work less salary wise, and since they own homes here or have family they are a better hire than a single younger woman like me. Why hire me because OMFG I'll get married, have babies and leave. I realize it is hard for people who need health care for their self or a family member, their retirement took a huge hit, or whatever is going on; but they could leave just as easily to move in with their kids and be near their grand kids before I'd ever give birth, let alone get married. Kind of putting a huge kink in saving money for graduate school as I can't move up without the minimum of a Masters because everyone at my level who has worked longer is getting the higher positions that rarely open up.
Oh snap, I should get pregnant, go on welfare (prenantal care covered!), and then sell my baby to a couple and breast milk as dairy products for some extra change. I could probably even make more on the side with people who have a thing for pregnant ladies with some art photography. I better get fertile, fast.
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