This has nothing to do with pedogate, but with what I as an unwilling part of the left should do.
Years ago I went to work for a local lefty organization in my very very conservative red state. I'm a sort of high level admin flunky for them. All those things you deplore about the left? They fund and foster that in middle America. My employer works to destroy the culture of my homeland. If we were Native-Americans, my employer would fund Indian schools to teach us to stop being Indians.
I could write a book and perhaps someday I will about all that's wrong about this job. John Michael Greer helped me understand that I've never been a lefty or a radical or a liberal. I'm a crunchy con. All my radical positions were arrived at from very traditional Christian teachings. Ex. I'm an environmentalist because God created creation. And so forth.
So I figured all this out years ago and in-between juggling family emergencies I search for a job that will support us all. If I were still young and single I could just quit and work temps, but I'm neither.
When I apply for a job I do not know what to say about why I'm looking to leave these people. I know most employers around here are very conservative. I'm concerned that they'll look up my current employer and say "I don't want her. She's been working for the leftwing lunatic troublemakers for over a decade! We don't want one of those people in this business." So I began putting it in my cover letters that I want to leave because differences in philosophy have grown over the years to the point that I must leave. I put it as vaguely as that and leave it at that. And maybe I shouldn't put it in the cover letter but then what if they look up my employer online? They'll see a website about how people like them are evilly evil...
But I'm concerned that even my carefully crafted vague line leaves an impression of criticizing my employer, which I do, often, to trusted friends. My poor husband is sick of hearing about it.
A few months ago I blew the telephone interview when I was asked what the philosophical difference was that I had with my current employer. What do I say? That at this point it's pretty much everything? That I'm 100 percent against castrating little boys? What?
BTW, I very much like your blog. Best of luck. I'm fiddling around with a book on "sacramental homemaking" so if you'd like to share Christian sources you run across and can't use, please share. Thanks for your writing. I understand I've asked a very hard question.
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Date: 2020-08-28 11:23 am (UTC)Years ago I went to work for a local lefty organization in my very very conservative red state. I'm a sort of high level admin flunky for them. All those things you deplore about the left? They fund and foster that in middle America. My employer works to destroy the culture of my homeland. If we were Native-Americans, my employer would fund Indian schools to teach us to stop being Indians.
I could write a book and perhaps someday I will about all that's wrong about this job. John Michael Greer helped me understand that I've never been a lefty or a radical or a liberal. I'm a crunchy con. All my radical positions were arrived at from very traditional Christian teachings. Ex. I'm an environmentalist because God created creation. And so forth.
So I figured all this out years ago and in-between juggling family emergencies I search for a job that will support us all. If I were still young and single I could just quit and work temps, but I'm neither.
When I apply for a job I do not know what to say about why I'm looking to leave these people. I know most employers around here are very conservative. I'm concerned that they'll look up my current employer and say "I don't want her. She's been working for the leftwing lunatic troublemakers for over a decade! We don't want one of those people in this business." So I began putting it in my cover letters that I want to leave because differences in philosophy have grown over the years to the point that I must leave. I put it as vaguely as that and leave it at that. And maybe I shouldn't put it in the cover letter but then what if they look up my employer online? They'll see a website about how people like them are evilly evil...
But I'm concerned that even my carefully crafted vague line leaves an impression of criticizing my employer, which I do, often, to trusted friends. My poor husband is sick of hearing about it.
A few months ago I blew the telephone interview when I was asked what the philosophical difference was that I had with my current employer. What do I say? That at this point it's pretty much everything? That I'm 100 percent against castrating little boys? What?
BTW, I very much like your blog. Best of luck. I'm fiddling around with a book on "sacramental homemaking" so if you'd like to share Christian sources you run across and can't use, please share. Thanks for your writing. I understand I've asked a very hard question.
Vera Lee