At work today, I said 'okay: I'm going to write a resume.'

[dev_chieftain]

Almost noon and still nothing! After 2: well, there's a meeting about the status of the company for tomorrow morning, but no guarantee we'll be paid before then. Or even after, possibly.

I do think my resume looks pretty nice though.

I've now sent some more applications out and even sent out a letter courting my old high school to see if they'd be willing to hire me on. I'd definitely be willing to work there if possible.

Edit: Also, sharing something from Tumblr. There is a post going around about a video of two toddlers. The little boy toddler repeatedly tries to hug the little girl, who pushes him away because she doesn't want him to. I have some personal experience that I wanted to add to this; that links to my own reblog of the post with my thoughts added at the bottom.

If you hate following links, here's just what I shared about my personal experience with childhood bad reinforcement:

Some related personal experience: Once when I was a little girl, a family friend grabbed me in the swimming pool. He was a large adult man, and while I definitely considered him to be my friend, I did not want to be held by him. I repeatedly told him to let me go, and struggled to get free; however, since he was the only adult at the pool, he was the only person capable of making him listen to me. The other children (my sibling and his children, to be precise) continued playing, since they were uninvolved.

This man refused to let me go, stating that to be freed I had to ask him politely and say please. Eventually, realizing that I had no control in the situation and that this so-called friend had no respect for my personal space, I finally had to relent and do as he told me to do, humiliated and thoroughly frightened by the experience. This is an experience that has lived with me to this day, and I didn’t even actually get sexually molested as a result of it.

This kind of attitude is unacceptable, and must be considered bad parenting or bad treatment of other human beings when it’s seen. It has to be corrected in whatever ways we can. I feel really strongly about this kind of abuse because it is subtle and awful.

Comments

[taithe]

Ugh, I had issues with people not respecting personal space as a kid too, although probably nothing as creepy as a grown man refusing to let me go. My parents weren't around when stuff happened, so I can't blame them, but I do agree that people should be taught what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of touch. People think it's weird that I have issues with hugs and too close contact with certain groups of people, but they seem to respect it if I use cultural differences as an excuse.

[dev_chieftain]

I think it's sad that people don't respect it unless you use an excuse to get them off your back about it. : /

Yeah, he was a family friend and normally fine, but that was one of the worst experiences of my childhood because it was freaky as hell and HE saw it as teaching me to be polite and say please when I wanted something. (In defense of my younger self, I knew how to do so but didn't necessarily always feel like it. And he wasn't my father so it wasn't his business.) His son was the same person who once made me feel like women were without value by countering something I'd said about women being necessary because of the way birth worked with, "Yeah? If women are so great why haven't any of them ever done anything important in history?"

To which my regrettably patriarchally educated younger self could only respond, "..."

Stuff like this is why I think I wouldn't mind teaching. Little girls should be learning about Madame Curie, Catherine the Great, Susan B. Anthony-- but instead those women get a mere footnote next to male contributors to history.