After getting a degree in Dental Laboratory Technology and Management and applying to 198 Orthodontic Laboratories throughout the country, I give you this graphically symbolic depiction of my hunt for employment:
Rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I’d love to hire you but I’m going out of business, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, you have an inadequate skill set, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I’m not going to train you just so you’ll run off and become my competition, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, you are overqualified, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I can’t be bothered to even respond to your application, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I know I asked you to drive 500 miles for this interview but your enthusiasm makes me nervous, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, you graduated summa cum laude so you probably think you know everything, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, sure I’ll hire you if you pay for your own relocation and take $7.00 an hour, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I was expecting someone younger, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, how do I know you really want a career in this industry, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, come back when you have more experience, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I need someone who can hit the ground running, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I’m such a rude jackass that you’ll be glad I don’t hire you, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, I don’t really think this is the job for you, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, You seem to lack confidence,rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, rejection, sorry but I hired someone more qualified but I wish you luck, rejection, rejection.
Sigh.
The View from a Drawbridge 
Been there
Tell me it has a happy ending.
I wanted to be productive member of society, but you take a bunch of risk going to school to get a job with little reward. I see writing a book as a foolish endeavor because there are more books and other media entertainment than can be consumed, but I wrote one anyway. Why? It gives an individual accomplishment award; even if, no one ever reads it. You might best stay content with your bridge tender job and write a book. You might get lucky and get a great job, but you may as well dream bigger and hope they turn your book into a movie. The middle class is dying. You may as well dream big and bust. You can feel good you tried to do right and the world turned out wrong. Sorry, my message may come as a downer, but all you can do is your best and hope the world gives you something more than rat droppings.
Well, it is true that my writing has been the one bright light amongst a torrential downpour of rat droppings. I will definitely consider this. However it’s hard to write anything of great length whilst sucking one’s thumb in the fetal position.
umm… did you type all those rejections or did you cut and paste???
I wanted to make sure I had exactly 198 of them, so I typed 25, then copied that 7 times, then subtracted two, if you must know. And no, I’m generally not that anal retentive, but sometimes one must suffer for one’s art.
That is sort of cool… and scary.
I was kind of hoping it would help my loved ones see where I was coming from.
That is what my blog is for.
Has it worked?
I am waiting for grandchildren… and when they wonder why they are so weird, they can go find out.
Always assuming WordPress lasts forever, and that you don’t go hog wild and get your blog deleted.
Right. Or maybe I will live forever with alien tech and I wont need it.
alien tech?
It pays to have friends from other places.
Even more scary to live it.
I suppose so.